Trusts and Foundations Lead

Permanent

Full time [34.5 hours]. We welcome a conversation with you about the flexible working options available at Macmillan.

**Location**: Home-based / Split between home and our London Office ; on average 1 day per week in the office.

**Salary range**: £53,500 to £63,000 London and £53,500 to £59,500 nationwide p.a.

Are you looking for an exciting new career opportunity that will enable you to support Macmillan Cancer Support's Philanthropy team to achieve a step-change in income, so we can best meet the needs of people living with cancer? Are you an experienced fundraising leader who understands sector-leading trust fundraising techniques and trends? Are you interested in why donors and funders commit to partnering with an organisation which can effect real and lasting change for people living with cancer?

About the role

The Corporate Partnerships and Philanthropy (CPP) division at Macmillan Cancer Support is investing in a programme of transformation to realise our bold ambitions for Corporate Partnership and Philanthropic support, so that we can do whatever it takes to be there for all people living with cancer in the UK, helping them to find their best way through.

We have exciting plans to achieve a step-change in our fundraising potential, by becoming the partner of choice for philanthropic and corporate supporters, who have the ability to create lasting change for people living with cancer.

We're looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced individual to lead the development of the trusts and foundations fundraising strategy within the Philanthropy team, enabling us to significantly grow our supporter pipeline, offer an exceptional stewardship experience for our existing donors and funders and realise our ambitions by bringing new supporters on board.

About you

You will be a highly motivated and experienced trust fundraiser who is organised, solution-focussed and able to prioritise, with well-developed communication skills and the ability to assimilate complex information in order to create compelling supporter-facing communications for your high value prospect portfolio.

You will be a collaborative and experienced team leader, able to influence across multiple stakeholder groups to achieve desired outcomes. You should be comfortable operating within an agile and ambitious working environment, enabling the trust fundraising team to proactively respond to opportunities that arise, by providing technical support and guidance, and coaching the team to be strategic and supporter-focussed in their decision-making.

Experience of working within high performing philanthropy and trust fundraising teams is highly desirable and you should have a clear understanding and demonstrable experience of how to successfully solicit and steward six
- and seven-figure gifts from foundations, grant makers and funders.

About us

Macmillan Cancer Support exists to ensure millions of people living with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can. Through physical, emotional and financial support, we will do whatever it takes to help people find their best way through their cancer experience, from the point of diagnosis and beyond.

Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together we provide vital support to those who need us most, acting with heart, with strength and with ambition.

The coronavirus pandemic has challenged Macmillan like never before, but it also saw us go further and faster towards improving care for people living with cancer, at a time when our support has never been so crucial. Coronavirus created a ticking timebomb of undiagnosed and untreated cancer in the UK and as a result, cancer survival rates could go backwards for the first time in decades. People are being diagnosed every day, and with increasing demand and pressure on the health care system, our purpose has never been so clear, so urgent and so important.

As an organisation, we are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success.

We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and your career, and we welcome a conversation about how these options can best support you.

We offer a range of flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, e.g. 34.5 hours in 4 days instead of 5, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm and more options.

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