About you

You’ll have strong experience in risk management, assurance and compliance, with the ability to translate risk frameworks into practical approaches that work across different parts of an organisation. Importantly, you’ll be comfortable working with complex programmes, with excellent stakeholder management skills, and ideally have experience of grant funding, third-party risk, programme risk in complex funding or partnership environments. You’ll be a confident business partner who can build trusted relationships while providing constructive challenge. You’ll know how to bring people with you, influence without relying on authority, work quickly and effectively and help teams develop their own confidence and capability in managing risk.

You’ll bring:

• Experience of designing, embedding and improving risk frameworks, ideally within grant funding or a comparable programme environment.
• Experience of identifying, assessing and managing risks, including developing effective mitigation and action plans.
• Experience of risk assurance and compliance, including supporting internal or external audits.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively across independent business functions in a matrix style environment.
• Excellent analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear risk insight.
• Experience of delivering risk workshops and presenting information to varied audiences.
• An understanding of community-led organisations and health systems and services in local settings.
• Project management experience is desirable.
• Risk management qualification is desirable but not essential.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accurate, high-quality work.
• Experience of driving continuous improvement and strengthening risk capability.
• Knowledge of relevant standards and frameworks, including ISO 27001:2022 - including the delivery of ISO27001 audits.
• A practical, proportionate approach to risk, with the confidence to balance risk and opportunity and promote a positive risk culture.

This is a chance to make a real impact in how Macmillan manages risk and assurance, particularly across the grant funding that enables us to work with partners and invest in services for people living with cancer. If you’re passionate about making risk management practical, proportionate and effective and want to use your expertise to strengthen the impact and accountability of Macmillan’s grant funding, we’d love to hear from you.

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: October 6th 2026
First interview dates: TBC

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 are an organisation that is committed to setting candidates up for success, so we can support you to be at your best during the application or selection process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice, or a conversation on reasonable adjustments.

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.

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.