Volunteer Support Manager

Job description

Volunteering Support Manager
Contract Type: 12 Month fixed term contract
Full time (34.5 hours) We are open to a conversation about how you work these hours.
Location: Hybrid , there will be a requirement to attend face to face team meetings
Salary Range: £44500-£49500

About 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 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

We're looking for an experienced Volunteering Support Manager to lead the operational delivery of key areas of Macmillan's volunteering strategy. You'll provide strong and inclusive people leadership to a multi-level team, creating the clarity, support and environment they need to deliver high-quality services and projects for volunteers and Volunteer Managers.

You'll lead the development and delivery of a consistent, responsive and effective volunteering support offer, ensuring Volunteer Managers have access to the guidance, resources and support they need to give volunteers a positive, safe and inclusive experience. You'll oversee operational processes, systems and team performance, using data, insight and feedback to identify priorities and drive continuous improvement.

Working collaboratively across Macmillan, you'll build strong relationships with teams including Supporter Care, Relationship Fundraising, to name a few. You'll also lead the operational activity of our UK Forum, working with the Volunteer Chair to create meaningful opportunities for volunteers to influence and shape our work.

This is an opportunity to lead and develop a high-performing team while improving how volunteering support is delivered across Macmillan, helping to ensure volunteering is safe, inclusive, impactful and aligned with our organisational goals.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team within Volunteering Support, creating an inclusive and supportive culture where colleagues can thrive, grow and deliver outstanding results.
• Provide exemplary people leadership, setting clear expectations, supporting development, managing performance and wellbeing, and empowering team members to achieve their full potential.
• Drive the delivery of a high-quality volunteering support service, ensuring volunteers, volunteer managers and stakeholders receive consistent, responsive and effective support.
• Allocate projects to the team which improve volunteering for both volunteers and volunteer managers
• Build strong relationships across Macmillan

About you

The skills and experience we are looking for in the role are:

• Experience of leading, motivating and developing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across a complex organisation.
• Experience of managing operational processes, systems and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Excellent planning and project management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Experience of using data and insight to monitor performance and inform decision-making.
• Understanding of volunteer management or volunteer engagement best practice.
• Knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion principles and how these can be embedded into volunteering.
• Ability to work collaboratively and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of managing budgets and ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 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.

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: 5th November 2026
Interview date: W/C 16 th November 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 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 at [email protected] for advice, or a conversation on reasonable adjustments.

If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regard to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at [email protected].

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 [email protected] .