Programme Manager (Giving Platforms)

Cancer Research UK

Hours
35 hours per week

Length of contract
12 month

About the Organisation

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is the world’s leading cancer research charity, dedicated to saving lives through groundbreaking research, raising awareness, and advocating for better healthcare policies. Its mission is to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s lives by funding and conducting cutting-edge cancer research that will eventually lead to better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Cancer Research UK’s vision is a world where no one is diagnosed with cancer in the first place, and for those who are, effective treatments and cures are available. Its mission is to accelerate progress in cancer research, ensuring that the latest innovations and breakthroughs translate into life-saving treatments for everyone.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Programme Manager (Giving Platforms). We need you to manage and coordinate cross-functional delivery teams, including external fundraising platform partners. You’ll ensure the efficient implementation of a shared, insight-driven, and audience-led vision to deliver CRUK’s commitment to research.

In this role, you’ll foster an empowered culture within cross-functional teams, building a collective sense of shared ownership of end-to-end outcomes, while maintaining oversight of the entire delivery process and its role in MFE-wide operations and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Driving the continued growth of CRUK audiences and supporters by proactively managing the delivery of the Giving Platforms programme with implementation plans, working collaboratively and cross-functionally across MFE and beyond, within the allocated budget
• Ensuring that agile cross-functional teams deliver against shared audiences, volume, value, contribution, and other objectives, by effectively managing activities, while empowering team members to make decisions
• Collaborating with MFE Proposition teams to develop an understanding of their audience needs and income objectives, and supporting them to achieve this by implementing tests and initiatives that leverage opportunities on third-party and CRUK-owned giving platforms
• Driving a culture of end-to-end delivery, building excellent working relationships, and ensuring a collective understanding of the Giving Platforms programme
• Ensuring that standards are set and upheld for proposition squad processes and culture, including frequent touchpoints and communication cross-functionally, in conjunction with the Senior Programme Manager, Programme Community of Practice, and any external benchmarking of best practice in our sector
• Ensuring sound resource allocation plans, proposition briefs, and business cases are developed
• Facilitating group activity, e.g,. proposition squad or working group, including cross-functional decision making, dependency, risk, and issue mediation
• Effectively and efficiently coordinating any changes to the implementation plan, using tools such as service blueprints, working in collaboration with Internal stakeholders, to ensure that any amendments are driving the product/proposition towards the desired outcome
• Working with the Senior Manager (Giving Platforms) and Programme Community of Practice to establish appropriate governance frameworks
• Working with external stakeholders, such as third-party fundraising platforms, to meet CRUK's year and long-term goals

Skills, Competencies & Experience

• Experience of project management principles and methodologies - aligned to the needs of the programme and best practices
• Proven ability to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, either within a charitable or commercial environment
• Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to effectively manage cross-functional teams and meetings to deliver the required outcome within the time allocated
• Ability to work within a complex and ambiguous environment, ensuring speedy decision-making and timely resolution of issues, including the ability to understand, work, and communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Adoption of a growth mindset- constantly seeking ways to improve and champion existing processes and approaches within the wider business
• Communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively within a cross-functional and cross-disciplinary environment, explaining complex information clearly at a senior level
• Strong commercial skills and financial awareness.

Conditions of employment

• You must have the right to work in the UK

Working locations

• Hybrid model, working in the Stratford office and remotely

How to apply

• Apply online
• We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process, and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at [email protected]. 

Interviews

• Interview date w/c 30th June 2025

Policies

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications, but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

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