Senior External Affairs Adviser
Employer: Macmillan
Location: Homebased
Temporary: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Working hours: 34.5 hours
Salary: £43,000 - £48,000
Closing date: 23:59 on Tuesday 16th December 2025
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Senior External Affairs Adviser
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Home based
Salary range: £43,000 - £48,000About 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
Join Macmillan Cancer Support as a Senior External Affairs Adviser, where you will play a vital role in shaping and delivering impactful change propositions and external affairs strategies across the UK. Your work will focus on delivering at-scale change for people with cancer, particularly the most marginalised groups.
Key responsibilities:Provide senior-level advice to develop external affairs strategies aligned with Macmillan’s mission.
Lead cross-functional external affairs projects that are evidence-based and impactful.
Develop and manage relationships with political stakeholders, policymakers, civil servants and healthcare providers.
Provide high-quality insight and briefings to senior colleagues on the political landscape, and what the external opportunities and risks are.
Anticipate shifts within the external environment and adapt approaches to maintain our relevance and influence.
Collaborate with teams to ensure policy positions are strategic and evidence-based.
Represent Macmillan at external events, advocating for improvements in cancer care.
Coordinate campaigns to influence public policy and funding decisions.
About youThe successful candidate will have...
Proven ability to manage complex and sensitive external contexts, making sound judgements on tone and messaging.
Strong understanding of operating within a four-nations context and engaging with diverse stakeholders, including senior politicians and civil servants.
Expertise in analysing complex policy issues and developing impactful, evidence-based policy positions.
Strong organisational skills and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and emerging issues.
Excellent communication skills which are adaptable for external and internal audiences.
Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams or on multi-disciplinary projects.
Recruitment processApplication deadline: 23:59 on Tuesday 16th December 2025
Interview date: Virtual interviews will be held on 8th January 2026
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.
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.
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