Direct marketing officer, lottery and raffle

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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 officer role is to deliver the charity’s raffle and lottery activity. Working closely with the direct marketing manager, you’ll plan, manage and deliver a wide-range of campaigns, both acquisition and retention, across face-to-face, digital, direct mail, email, and telemarketing channels, driving vital income to support the charity’s research and care objectives.

With individual giving income growing strongly, and investment secured for the upcoming years, this is an exciting opportunity to join a high performing fundraising team, generating upwards of £15 million per annum.

About you
You’ll already have some experience of working in a fundraising environment, ideally with experience of direct marketing, individual giving and gaming products. You’ll enjoy working as part of a busy and high performing team which works to demanding targets.

You enjoy the variety of working on campaigns across a range of channels and seeing the results of your work. As a well-organised person with excellent communication skills, you’ll be at ease liaising with key external suppliers and in-house teams across the charity to support the delivery of campaigns, while closely monitoring results and ensuring they are delivered to budget and targets.

You’ll be competent with windows-based software, and your close attention to detail will ensure accuracy with proof-reading, campaign reports, record keeping and invoice processing. You have a good understanding, or a willingness to learn about fundraising and gambling regulations that affect our gaming and fundraising activities.

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 the 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 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.

We reserve the right to close this advert early. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please submit your application as soon as possible, if you’re interested in this opportunity.

Closing date Monday 4 August 2025 at 9am

Interview date Week commencing 11 August 2025