External Affairs Manager (Projects)

External Affairs Manager (Projects) – Macmillan Cancer Support

Full time (34.5 hours). We are open to a conversation about how you work these hours.

Location Home-based or Hybrid – split between home and a Macmillan office (with occasional travel to meetings and/or events when required).

About the role

Are you a senior, experienced policy and public affairs professional, keen to make a difference to the lives of people with cancer? This challenging but highly rewarding role could be your opportunity to lead key areas of Macmillan’s UK external affairs work.

As part of the External Affairs UK leadership team, you will lead our engagement and influencing activity on Neighbourhood Health, working closely with other teams to deliver national system change for people with cancer.

You will act as a senior external representative for Macmillan in the neighbourhood health space, enabling us to be a key player with influential audiences. In conjunction with key stakeholders, you will lead matrix teams to develop and pursue influencing strategies to drive change for people living with cancer.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• You will have significant experience in an external affairs role.
• You will have demonstrable experience of leading proactive and reactive external affairs activity.
• Significant experience of delivering successful external affairs strategies which have achieved system change.
• Outstanding relationship skills are essential.
• You will be a skilled communicator who has represented an organisation effectively with external stakeholders.
• You will have an ability to motivate and develop people.
• You will have experience of working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

About us

At Macmillan you\’ll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We\’re going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

Recruitment Process

Interviews will be held on: Thursday 25th September 2025

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.

Note: All information is subject to change and is intended for applicants considering this role.