Research & Evaluation Manager in London

12-Month Fixed Term Contract, family leave cover

Start date: late May / early June

Hybrid into our London office (expectation once per week for this role)

At Macmillan, we’re doing whatever it takes to help people living with cancer live life as fully as they can. Evidence and insight are central to how we deliver that support and we are currently recruiting a Research & Evaluation Manager on a 12-month fixed term contract to lead our Research & Evaluation team and strengthen Macmillan’s ability to measure, understand and learn from the impact of our work.

About the Role

In this role, you’ll provide technical leadership and oversight across research and evaluation activities, ensuring high-quality, inclusive and impactful outputs that inform decision-making across the organisation. You’ll lead a team of specialists, foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement, and support colleagues to use evidence to shape services, programmes and strategy. You’ll provide technical expertise and oversight of a portfolio of research and evaluation projects, ensuring insights are shared in accessible ways and embedded into organisational learning. You’ll also work closely with colleagues to refine Macmillan’s theory of change and ensure alignment with our measurement frameworks and strategic reporting. A key part of the role will involve commissioning and managing external research and evaluation partners, including leading invitation to tender (ITT) processes and building strong supplier relationships to maximise value and impact.

About you

We are looking for someone with strong research and evaluation expertise, including qualitative and quantitative methods, theory-based evaluation approaches, and experience evaluating services or programmes. You’ll bring excellent communication and analytical skills, strong stakeholder management experience, and the ability to influence across a complex organisation. In this role you will be leading an established team so proven experience in managing a team within a matrix environment is strongly desirable. Experience in the health, social care, or charity sector and an understanding of value-for-money or health economics approaches would be highly beneficial. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead impactful work that helps Macmillan better support people living with cancer through evidence-driven decision making.

Recruitment Process

1st Interview Date: w/c 20th April 2026

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. We are an organisation that is committed to setting candidates up for success, so we can support you to be at your best during the application or selection process, please contact Macmillan TA Team for advice, or a conversation on reasonable adjustments. We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

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