Local Fundraising Manager

Relationship Manager £33,000 – £37,000 plus benefits Reports to: Divisional Manager Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time 35 hours per week Location: Home-based You will need access to a car as extensive travel is required for this role. The successful candidate must be located within the geographic area shown on the map below. Please click to view: https://images.ctfassets.net/u7vsjnoopqo5/5228tQHqumjX5lxyhcqKPv/016256e8d58f5648d6d0b5ec54601d5a/south_east_england_map.png Closing date: 27th September 2026 23:55

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship. Recruitment process: One stage competency-based interview Interview date: week commencing 5th October

What will I be doing?

• Inspiring, developing and managing supporters to achieve their goals through offering outstanding and tailored stewardship.
• Developing a prospect pipeline of opportunities and identifying and cultivating leads.
• Aquiring new supporters and income in collaboration with the Business Development team
• Hitting fundraising targets and KPIs for CRUK's life saving research.
• Supporting creation and delivery of relevant strategies that build better and longer lasting relationships to increase long-term income
• Building strong working relationships with wider department team colleagues to effectively develop transitioned supporters

What are we looking for?

• Experience of working as part of a high performing team, achieving KPIs and targets
• Experience of working unsupervised with the ability to drive and generate own workload
• Excellent networking and relationship manager skills – and the ability to motivate and influence supporters or customers to reach targets.
• Ability to adapt style and approach, generate new ideas and to acquire new business.
• A strong solution focused approach to enable supporters to overcome challenges and maximise their fundraising.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (face to face, written and phone)
• Great time management, prioritisation and planning skills

We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

• Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
• Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
• Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
• Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

Eligibility criteria

Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles. You should also advise your current line manager at the point you make an internal application, or at the latest, at the point of being invited for an interview. All internal candidates applying for a secondment, must have: completed their getting started period discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (this is only applicable if you have previously been on secondment) If you do not confirm that you meet these requirements, we will not be able to progress your application. For information about internal learning and development at Cancer Research UK please visit Fuse.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals. You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented. We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research. We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day‑to‑day lives through our research, influence and information. We’re beating cancer – step by step, day by day. Find a purposeful career that will empower you to grow and collaborate with like‑minded experts.