Strategic Participation Manager

Are you passionate about putting lived experience at the heart of an organisation's work and decision-making? We're looking for a Strategic Participation Manager to co-lead our internal participation team, strengthen our ways of working and ensure the voices of people living with cancer are embedded in our decision-making and design. The learning from this 6-month secondment will directly inform longer-term shaping of the role and the function, with potential to become more permanent in the future. A key focus of this role will be people leadership. You'll provide clear, supportive and empowering line management to a small team, setting direction, building capability, and creating the conditions for high performance during a period of learning, testing and adaptation. In this rewarding role, you'll translate Macmillan's organisational goals into a robust participation framework and operational plan. You'll oversee a portfolio of high-impact projects, partner with teams across the organisation, and ensure our participation communities are informed, engaged, and supported. You'll work closely with Strategic Communities Managers to align internal and external engagement strategies and collaborate with enabling functions to embed participation into our processes, governance, and workforce capability.,

• Lead the development and delivery of Macmillan's internal participation strategy.
• Oversee a prioritised plan for participation across flagship projects and organisational initiatives.
• Provide line management to a dispersed team of Participation Managers and Participation & Stewardship Officers, including performance management and professional development.
• Ensure effective matrix management, offering clarity, alignment and feedback to colleagues working across multiple teams and projects.
• Partner with colleagues to embed lived experience into governance, planning, and evaluation.
• Ensure participation routes are inclusive, accessible, and representative of diverse communities.
• Manage the participation budget and report on progress against key metrics.
• Facilitate networking and outreach events to amplify the voices of people living with cancer.
  
  The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
• Experience in participation and co-production approaches.
• Experience of line management, driving high performance across diverse and dispersed teams.
• Experience building strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships with people from all backgrounds.
• Experience in operational planning, budget management, and evaluation.
• Experience of developing processes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of teams.
• A commitment to equity, inclusion, and amplifying underrepresented voices.
  
  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.


• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more
Recruitment process Application deadline: 23:59 on Monday 27th May Provisional interview dates: Online interviews will take place on Thursday 4th June 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.