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 brilliant opportunity to inspire our amazing supporters to fundraise for Breast Cancer Now. Your focus will be to develop marketing plans and campaigns for products across the community & events portfolio; from our flagship fundraising event the Pink Ribbon Walks and unique challenges such as Night in the Wild through to third party events such as the London Marathon and Great North Run. You’ll also work on the marketing of our community fundraising activity including DIY fundraising and in-memory giving.
It's an exciting time to join Breast Cancer Now, the charity is growing and the community & events programme continues to see incredible performance. Reporting into the senior marketing manager of community & events, you’ll be joining a collaborative and supportive team with great camaraderie where you’ll have the opportunity to develop in your role.
You’ll help to create engaging and compelling campaigns and communications to reach both new and existing supporters through digital and integrated campaigns. Working alongside the community & events marketing officer that you’ll line manage and the senior marketing manager, you’ll be planning, delivering and evaluating multiple campaigns at any one time; this variety and pace will enable you to gain great experience.
About you
You’re committed to raising money, have a passion for high-quality marketing, and want to work on some of the sector’s most high-profile products.
This role focuses on delivering integrated warm and cold marketing campaigns. Alongside the Marketing Officer and Senior Marketing Manager, you will develop and execute campaigns for our incredible portfolio of event marketing, inspiring tens of thousands to participate and raise millions for Breast Cancer Now each year. The role covers the full marketing mix, including paid social, email, print, direct mail, radio, and other relevant channels.
With strong marketing experience, you can skilfully plan and deliver campaigns across online and offline channels to reach targets. You have experience developing engaging direct response campaigns and excellent copywriting skills to create materials for different channels and audiences.
Passionate, creative, and detail-oriented, you bring exceptional project management skills and a drive to make a meaningful impact. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, working flexibly and adapting as needed.
Your project management experience enables you to oversee multiple campaigns while collaborating confidently with agencies, stakeholders, and teams to deliver quality work on time. A strong understanding of KPIs allows you to evaluate and optimize campaigns, applying insights to improve future performance. These skills also equip you to manage, support, and develop the Community & Events Officer.
This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your marketing skills in charity event fundraising. While experience in Community & Events fundraising is a bonus, we welcome applicants from other fundraising disciplines or relevant sectors.
Job description and benefits
Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.
Primary location of role and hybrid working
This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.
To support Breast Cancer Now’s commitment to a meaningful and positive induction process, staff members will be asked to consider coming into the office more frequently each week with their manager, team and line report, during their initial period of employment.
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 email Recruitment@breastcancernow.org
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
9am on Monday 21 April 2025
First round interviews
Wednesday 30 April and Thursday 1 May 2025
Second round interviews
Week commencing 5 May 2025
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