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About the Role
We are looking for a motivated Senior Programme Manager (Individual Giving) to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that help grow Cancer Research UK's audiences and supporter engagement. This role plays a vital part in delivering audience-led propositions and supporter journeys, bringing teams together around shared goals and ensuring high-quality delivery from planning through to implementation. Working collaboratively across multiple disciplines, you'll help create meaningful supporter experiences while acting with ambition, professionalism, inclusivity and a relentless focus on impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of audience propositions and end-to-end supporter journeys, ensuring implementation plans are executed effectively and within budget.
- Coordinate and empower agile cross-functional teams to achieve shared audience, volume, value and contribution objectives.
- Foster a culture of end-to-end delivery, collaboration and shared ownership across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Build strong relationships across Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement, Technology and other functions to align priorities and maximise delivery outcomes.
- Establish effective governance, risk management and decision-making frameworks to support successful delivery.
- Facilitate cross-functional working groups, managing dependencies, risks, issues and changes to implementation plans while driving continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering complex programmes, projects or initiatives using agile and/or waterfall methodologies.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders, suppliers and cross-functional teams within a complex environment.
- Excellent facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to drive outcomes while empowering others to make decisions.
- Strong problem-solving, conflict resolution and decision-making capabilities.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage senior stakeholders and explain complex information clearly.
- Strong planning, budget management and financial monitoring skills, alongside proficiency with Microsoft applications including Excel.
- You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy.
- Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles.
- Internal candidates applying for a secondment must have discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager.
- Internal candidates applying for a secondment must have been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (this is only applicable if you have previously been on secondment).
- Candidates must inform the employer of any concerns or adjustments needed for the application or interview process.
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Waterfall methodologies
- Stakeholder management
- Supplier management
- Cross-functional team management
- Facilitation
- Influencing
- Problem-solving
- Conflict resolution
- Decision-making
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Planning
- Budget management
- Financial monitoring
- Microsoft Excel
Location
- Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Minimum 6 months in substantive role for internal secondment applications
Salary/Compensations
- £56,000- £60,000
Benefits
- Generous benefits package
- Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
- High-quality tools
- Policies and processes to improve work-life balance
About the Company
- At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do: Bold, Credible, Human, Together.
- 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.
- Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.
Equal Opportunity
- We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- 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.
- 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.