Participation Manager

Are you passionate about putting lived experience at the heart of an organisation\’s work and decision-making? Do you excel in designing participation programmes that enable diverse groups of people with lived experience to meaningfully shape solutions? Do you thrive when partnering with other teams to share your expertise and build their knowledge? If so, this might be the perfect role for you!

This role will lead the involvement of people with lived experience of cancer in key projects and decision-making within Macmillan. As a Participation Manager, you will lead cross-organisational business partnering to shape and deliver strategic projects that embed meaningful participation across Macmillan\’s work, aligned with the organisation\’s strategic objectives.

You will scope and identify opportunities for participation with a focus on understanding the needs of Macmillan teams and people with lived experience of cancer. You will lead the outcomes-focused design and delivery of projects requiring expertise in participation, ensuring that these projects provide rewarding opportunities for people living with cancer to shape Macmillan\’s work and a high quality experience for participants.

You will use your excellent understanding of equity by design to ensure that opportunities are inclusive and accessible to people with a wide range of needs and diverse lived experiences. Working closely with colleagues across the Communities and Participation Team and the wider Communities and System Partnerships division, you will leverage existing lived experience networks and community relationships to drive change with and for people living with cancer through strategic programmes of work.

You will join and lead matrix teams to deliver participation programmes involving community partnerships. You will think creatively about how to sustainably embed participation across key areas of the organisation including external affairs, corporate partnerships, campaigns, and governance. Above all else, you will embody Macmillan\’s values by acting with heart, strength, and ambition as you support Macmillan\’s journey towards sharing more power with communities and people living with cancer.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Excellent understanding of participation tools and approaches.
• Excellent understanding of equity by design.
• Expert facilitation skills.
• Deep understanding and experience of applying co-production and co-design methodologies with people and across organisations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the capacity to draw insight and make recommendations based on the needs, challenges and opportunities within different business functions.
• Experience of business partnering and building strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the confidence to influence decisions.
• Experience of working on a portfolio of projects.
• Experience of working within a change context and supporting a learning culture.

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.

• 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

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