Strategic Engagement and Improvement Manager

• Salary From:£55,000
• Salary To:£61,000
• Region:England
• Location:Mobile Worker
• Advertised Job Category:Partnerships
• Department:Professional Engagement
• Job type:Permanent
• Closing Date:20 July 2026

Strategic Engagement & Improvement Manager Contract: PermanentFull time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours Location: Mobile Worker, with expected extensive travel across Greater LondonSalary range: £55,000 - £61,000 plus car allowance 
About us

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.

About the role 
You will drive the delivery of a strategically-aligned, dynamic workforce engagement plan within the Professional Engagement Team for Macmillan Professionals and the wider workforce across a defined area – ensuring that they are equipped to deliver the best possible support and care for people with cancer. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of Professional Engagement Improvement Leads and Relationship Leads to deliver an evidence based and strategically focused professional engagement plan and Macmillan Membership offer, across a defined area.
• Ensure that convening, service improvement, peer networking and best practice sharing are at the heart of those strategic delivery plans and membership offers.
• Shares local insight and intelligence to support the delivery of wider systems and community partnerships and the development of professional practice.
• Holds senior relationships with health and community partners, emphasising the benefits of Macmillan professional membership and spotting opportunity for wider workforce engagement.
• Ensure equitable reach to Macmillan Professionals and the wider workforce by with a focus on reaching the people who need us most.

About you
This role requires candidates to have demonstrable experience of operating in a very similar or comparable role.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience: 

• Experience of leading and delivering workforce improvements and engagement plans in health and community settings.
• Experience of line management and leading a team
• Excellent communication, people and relationship management skills.
• IT, data analysis and report writing skills.
• Full UK drivers' licence or ability to travel extensively for work across the Greater London area

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 20th July
First interview dates: Online interviews will take place on Monday 3rd August

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.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and 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. 

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.