Events Manager - Third-Party Events (13 month Maternity Cover) in London

We’re seeking an Events Manager (Third-Party Events) to join our dynamic and high-achieving Events team to cover maternity leave! We are looking for someone who can join us in mid-August 2026 for a 13-month Fixed-Term contract.

In this role, you’ll manage a team of four to deliver our third-party portfolio challenge events, including leading the London Marathon Double and Great North Run, London Landmarks Half Marathon and Hackney Half. You’ll lead the team to deliver and optimise omni-channel stewardship journeys, shape effective marketing strategies and maximise opportunities to boost engagement, recruitment and retention.

What the role involves:

• To manage the team to meet income targets through the delivery of areas of our events portfolio
• To develop and implement plans, marketing materials, multi-channel campaigns and supporter journeys for event participants
• To oversee budgets for your area, tracking and reporting on performance

About You

You’ll be passionate about Events fundraising and excited about joining a team who achieve excellent results. You’ll also have:

• Previous line management experience
• Experience of managing a portfolio of events, including marketing, recruitment and stewardship
• Proven ability in managing and reporting on budgets

If this sounds like you – we’d love to hear from you!

About working for us

This is a fast-paced organisation that is committed to making a difference. Being a part of our team is being part of a thriving, positive, dynamic, successful, and welcoming community that is making an impact. We will support you and develop you should you wish this, and you get the opportunity to be involved in activities outside the scope of your immediate role. We care about your health and well-being and your work-life balance, and you will feel that your contribution is valued and matters.

About us

We are Pancreatic Cancer UK. We go above and beyond for everyone affected by this disease. Right now, half of people with pancreatic cancer die within three months of diagnosis. Families are left with only hope to hold onto. They need more. So we do more. We bring more breakthroughs through research, more change through campaigning and more support through our expert nurses. We make more noise because people have gone unheard. We are relentless because the disease is ruthless. We care more because people feel forgotten. Because people with pancreatic cancer need more than hope.

Underpinning this vision are our three values: Courage, Compassion, Community. We cannot achieve our vision without employing people who are committed to our vision, strategy, and values. At Pancreatic Cancer UK (PCUK) our ambition is to create an inclusive working environment that reflects the communities and audiences that we engage with and where everyone can be their true selves, where they feel respected, championed, heard, and supported. We want our workforce to achieve their potential, understand their contribution and feel proud of their impact by creating a culture and organisation that is genuinely inclusive by advancing equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging through our policies and practices. We believe diversity drives great outcomes by encouraging the different points of view that come from a diverse workforce. We want to hear from and engage with people whose experience of dealing with this disease may be very different depending on their individual circumstances and background. We can think of no better way to do this than by making sure this role fully represents our intent; therefore, we are especially keen to consider applications from suitable applicants who consider themselves to be in areas that appear underrepresented within the charity sector.

Safeguarding

PCUK is committed to safe and fair recruitment processes that safeguard and protect those we work with, support and serve. We make sure all our staff are selected, vetted (DBS/Criminal record checks where appropriate), trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care. Where we work with volunteers, we extend the same support in order to ensure that they are working within our ethos and standards.

Hybrid-working: Our London office is a place to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. We are currently working hybrid with a minimum of 2-3 days in the office. This is an office-based role where you may be required to be in the office more frequently to attend activities and meetings depending on the needs of the role.

How to apply

You can download the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role. If you have any questions about this role that we’ve not answered, please get in touch with Charlie Preston at Charlie.preston@pancreaticcancer.org.uk. To apply, please complete the online application form, setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification criteria. This information will be used to select candidates for interviews. You will need to have the right to work in the UK as we are not able to provide sponsorship for this role. Please note that interviews will be held on week commencing 20 July 2026. The interviews will consist of a task and competency questions. No agencies/sales call please – as a charity we work hard to keep our costs down and therefore will not be engaging agencies to support this recruitment.