BREAST CANCER NOW
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
The purpose of the direct marketing executive role is to support the charity’s prize-led fundraising activity, which currently consists of two products – the Breast Cancer Now raffle and the Pink Ribbon lottery. Working closely with the direct marketing officers, you will assist in delivering a wide-range of campaigns across multiple channels (direct mail, email, telemarketing, digital and face-to-face marketing), which recruit and retain supporters to these products. And, you’ll provide vital administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the team and the lottery.
The workload is varied and an average day might consist of proof-reading campaign materials, processing invoices, recording campaign results, helping to brainstorm ideas for an upcoming campaign, briefing internal teams, calling a lottery winner, helping to resolve queries, shadowing our face-to-face fundraisers, or writing copy for an email campaign.
With combined individual giving income growing strongly at over £21 million per annum, this is the perfect time to join an experienced and effective individual giving team. And be part of an overall directorate that won the 2024 charity times award for fundraising team of the year.
About you
You might be looking for your first role in a fundraising, or direct marketing. Experience in these specific areas is not essential, as long as you can clearly demonstrate the skills required for the role, and the desire to work in the sector.
You have excellent communication skills; you’d be at ease liaising with external suppliers, briefing internal teams, and could turn your hand to writing compelling copy for our direct marketing activity.
You’d enjoy a role with a variety of responsibilities, including some administrative support but also having creative input into direct marketing activity.
You can use your excellent time-management and organisational skills to complete a varied work-load, always working to agreed targets and deadlines.
You’re a team player, with a positive attitude, looking to be part of a friendly and high performing team, where you can see the results of your work.
You’re competent with windows-based software, particularly Excel.
You can follow processes, are quick and eager to learn new tasks, able to work accurately and pay close attention to detail.
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 either or 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. If you’ve any immediate questions please email
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 21 November 2024
Interview dates:
w/c 25 November and w/c 2 December 2024 via Teams
