Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£40,500

About Us
We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here. The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here, making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information, and specialist nurses are here, ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here, fighting for the best possible treatment, services, and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.

About the Role
This is a pivotal role within individual giving, helping to plan and develop fundraising strategy, budget management, as well as being responsible for delivering campaigns of significant scale and generating income both now and for the future. As part of the team generating £15 million per annum, the successful candidate will be responsible for acquisition and retention communications that talk to thousands of individuals, building relationships with supporters across a wide range of marketing channels (including face-to-face, DRTV, direct mail, digital) and different activities, and driving vital income to support the charity’s research and care objectives. With a large range of activity coming up, individual giving income growing strongly, and investment secured for the future, this is an exciting time to join and contribute to a passionate, experienced, and effective team.

Job Description and Benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.

Primary Location of Role and Hybrid Working
This role will be based in our London office; however, in line with our hybrid working practice, full-time staff members may choose to work up to three days per week from home.

When Applying
We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions, please reach out via email.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity, and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us, and who we support.

Closing Date
Monday 11 August at 9am 2025

Interview Date
Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 August 2025

Experience
You’ll have significant experience of running direct marketing activity to generate income, working with and developing strong relationships with suppliers, and at scale to solicit funds from tens of thousands of supporters.

About You
A well-organised person with excellent communication skills, you’ll be managing key external agencies and in-house stakeholders to deliver complex, multi-faceted campaigns. You’ll have a real focus on monitoring key campaign metrics to both optimise existing campaigns but also input into ongoing and future fundraising strategy. You’ll be confident in monitoring and managing significant expenditure budgets, as well as be keen to develop the skills to manage channel budgets and reforecasting. Working across a range of channels that may include face-to-face, DRTV, email, online, telemarketing, and direct mail, you’ll understand supporter motivations, and how to increase supporter engagement and retention; testing and evolving our campaigns to best fit what works for our supporters and ensuring that the Breast Cancer Now brand ethos is at the heart of all communications.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or experience in direct marketing and fundraising are desirable.