Programme Lead
- Plan, deliver, adapt and continually improve complex programmes across community and system settings.
- Navigate governance, policy and accountability environments-using governance as support, not control.
- Encourage innovation and informed risk-taking among partners. Work with communities and partners
- Build trusted relationships across diverse communities, listening first and designing from the margins.
- Support delivery in community settings with different demographics, cultures and experiences.
- Convene partners across the NHS, local authorities, Cancer Alliances, VCSEs and community organisations-brokering collaboration, naming tensions and sharing power. Drive equity, inclusion and systemic change
- Embed equity, diversity and inclusion into every stage of programme delivery.
- Identify and address power imbalances, design equitable decision-making processes, and champion culturally responsive practice. Steward resources wisely
- Oversee budgets and funding arrangements with transparency and fairness, recognising the varied capacities of partner organisations. Create learning that drives national impact
- Capture insight and learning while delivering.
- Share practice openly and help translate it into tools and blueprints that others can use across the system.
- Contribute to Macmillan's role as a learning organisation and represent Macmillan with credibility and humility at senior levels. We're looking for someone who:
- Has significant experience in Programme Management, leading and delivering a portfolio of programmes across complex systems
- Has experience managing a wide range of relationships/partnerships across community settings
- Has strong negotiating skills
- Works relationally and can build trust
- Holds strategic intent, and can adapt in uncertain, evolving environments
- Can join the dots across complex systems to inform and implement change
- Has knowledge of embedding equity, diversity and inclusion in programme delivery, working in partnership with organisations to share power
- Thrives in complexity If you're ready to lead programmes that transform real lives-and reshape how cancer care is delivered across the UK-this role could be for you. At Macmillan, we know that improving outcomes for people affected by cancer starts with the people closest to the challenges-and the people who can bring organisations and systems together to create meaningful, lasting change.
- 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
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