Individual giving marketing officer

Closing date: Wednesday 26 August 2026

Location: Home based or office based in Andover, Hampshire, with regular travel to head office.

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 pro-rata - Full time - 35 hours per week

Join us in Beating Macular Disease

Do you have experience of, or an interest in marketing? Would you like to use your excellent administration skills and attention to detail to help us Beat Macular Disease?

If you have experience coordinating direct marketing campaigns across multiple channels and audiences, managing multiple pieces of work at the same time, and inspiring people to support the fight against macular disease, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Macular Society

Macular disease is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK, with around 300 people diagnosed every day. We're the only UK charity determined to beat the fear and isolation of macular disease through:

• World class researchto find new treatments and a cure
• Practical supportfor people affected by sight loss
• Trusted advice and support servicesthat empower those living with macular disease

About the role

As part of our friendly and collaborative individual giving team, you’ll support recruiting and developing new supporters and building long-term relationships that generate vital income to help Beat Macular Disease.

With ambitious plans to grow our fundraising programme over the next five years, you’ll play an important role in helping us meet the needs of our members and donors.

As our individual giving marketing officer, you will:

• Coordinate individual giving acquisition and retention campaigns, including managing schedules, supporting data selection and working with colleagues to deliver campaigns on time.
• Help deliver campaigns on time, to budget and to a high standard of quality.
• Work with colleagues from other teams with creative development and approvals, helping to brief print and securely share data.
• Regularly monitor campaign results and feed into campaign reporting, making recommendations where possible.
• Maintain positive working relationships with other colleagues, suppliers across print, postage and other marketing agencies.
• Optimise campaigns by identifying opportunities for improvement and growth, making recommendations to improve results and escalating issues where appropriate.

About you

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in supporting a direct marketing programme including on and offline channels such as direct mail.
• Analytical and numeracy skills to report campaign income and expenditure including reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Demonstrable ability to support across a variety of campaigns, multitasking and prioritising multiple projects at one time.
• Strong IT and administrative skills including a high level of competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
• Openness to new ways of working, learning new tasks and skills as required.
• Excellent team working and interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships across the organisation.

Why join us?

In return, we provide a great working culture – we do something worthwhile and are proud to work together to Beat Macular Disease.

Benefits include:

• Flexible working options
• 27 days annual leave, plus public holidays
• Option to buy or sell annual leave
• Supportive family-friendly policies
• 6% pension contribution

To read about our benefits in more detail, see link below.

Inclusion and diversity

We are an equal opportunities employer and a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons, particularly people with lived experience of sight loss.

• Guaranteed interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum (essential) criteria and disclose their disability in their application
• Opportunities to request reasonable adjustments for interviews and the role

We aim to be an inclusive employer reflecting the communities we serve.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. If you have a disability and require additional time to complete your application, up to and including the closing date, please let us know.

How to apply

For a full job description and person specification, please see below.

To apply: Please email your CV with a covering letter to recruitment@macularsociety.org

In line with our value of “Showing we care”, we ask that the covering letter is written in your own words and not heavily reliant on AI-generated content.

Questions? Please address any questions by email to individualgiving@macularsociety.org

Closing date: Wednesday 26 August, 9am

Interviews: Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 September