Direct Marketing Officer, legacy & journeys

About us

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 an important role within our legacy and journeys team, part of an established and successful individual giving operation. This role is responsible for the delivery of campaigns to promote legacy giving and to raise awareness of gifts in wills to both existing charity supporters and new audiences.

There s huge potential to grow the charity s income from legacy gifts. In this role, you ll get the chance to work across an exciting and varied range of activity, including DRTV and our supporter newsletter. You ll have the opportunity to hone your skills to grow and strengthen our supporter base and inspire more people to consider how they can support future generations with a gift in their will.

With individual giving income growing strongly at over £21 million per annum, this is the perfect time to join an experienced and effective team.

About you

You ll have worked in a similar environment such as fundraising. You will have gained experience in running direct marketing activity to generate response, working with suppliers and in-house teams to reach target audiences.
You re super organised with excellent communication skills, comfortable managing external suppliers and in-house stakeholders to deliver campaigns to plan and against budget.

Working across a range of channels, including direct mail, telemarketing, DRTV, legacy events and digital, you will understand the importance of good stewardship in developing loyalty to a cause.

If you re up for a challenge and want to play your part in driving forward our legacy and stewardship program to ensure we can continue to be there for people affected by breast cancer in years to come, please get in touch.

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 or Sheffield office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.

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.

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 7 October 2024

Interview date: Week commencing 14 October 2024