Job Description
Position: Legacy Marketing Officer (Senior) Type: Full-time (35 hours per week)Contract: PermanentLocation: Office-based in London with flexible, hybrid workingSalary: Starting from £35,109 per annum (inclusive of recruitment and retention allowance of £2,065). Total salary increasing to £37,174 after 12 months service and satisfactory performance.
Create a future free from MS and inspire others to do the same.
Gifts in wills fund almost half of the MS Society’s work, powering life-changing research, campaigns and services. As our new Legacy Marketing Officer (Senior), you’ll play a leading role in growing this extraordinary form of support and deepening our relationships with the people who make it possible.
If you’re excited by the idea of combining creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking to deliver campaigns that genuinely change lives, this is the role for you.
About us
We’re here for everyone affected by MS. At the MS Society, people with lived experience shape everything we do: our priorities, our campaigning, our research, and the way we support our community.
We’re a friendly, ambitious and collaborative team and we know that our people are our greatest strength. You’ll join a charity that’s moving forward with energy, compassion and purpose.
About the role
As Senior Legacy Marketing Officer, you’ll be at the heart of our gifts in wills programme, helping to grow one of our most vital income streams.
You will:
* Lead inspiring multi-channel legacy marketing campaigns across digital, email, social, print and direct mail
* Create powerful content that helps supporters understand the impact of leaving a gift in their will
* Plan and deliver in-person and virtual legacy events, bringing supporters closer to our work
* Develop strong relationships with supporters, suppliers and internal teams
* Champion best practice in legacy engagement, accessibility and supporter experience
This role is perfect for someone who enjoys taking ownership, being creative, and working collaboratively to make a real difference.
About you
We’re looking for someone who:
* has experience in gifts in wills marketing OR broader fundraising/marketing with transferable skills
* is confident leading projects from idea to delivery
* writes clearly, creatively and with empathy
* builds warm and trusting relationships
* can balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
* is motivated by making a real and lasting impact
If you care deeply about meaningful supporter engagement and want to help build a future free from MS, we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date for applications: 9:00am on Monday 13 April 2026
Interested?
More information can be found by downloading the attached documents in 'supporting documents' and then to apply for this role, please submit the following:
* an updated CV.
* a supporting statement indicating how you meet the essential criteria as set out in the person specification in the attached job description.
Top Tip: you will need to save your Cover Letter, CV and Optional Equal Opps form as one document and upload this to the site.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Equal Opportunities
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
We’d be grateful if you downloaded and completed the equality and diversity monitoring form and submit it with your application.
Disability Confident Employer
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and we’re committed to promoting equality and diversity.
You can ask for reasonable adjustments as part of both our recruitment and new starter on-boarding processes.
If you need any help or adjustments to apply for this role, please contact us. You can also ask for the application materials to be sent to you in a different format. Such as for them to be sent to you by email or in a larger word format.
More about our employee benefits:
We have a wide range of employee benefits including (but not limited to):
Encouraging work life balance:
* 38 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), pro-rata for part-time
* More annual leave entitlement, based on length of employment
* Smart working options (with the opportunity to work remotely and find a smart working pattern that suits both you and us)
* Flexible working options
Caring for you and your family:
* Generous sick pay entitlement
* More sick pay entitlement, based on length of employment
* Opportunity to buy and sell annual leave in each calendar year
* Free access to a GP virtually 24 hours a day/7 days a week allowing you unlimited advice, reassurance and where appropriate diagnosis
* Enhanced leave for new parents
* Free access to a confidential 24 hours a day/7 days a week helpline service for both you and your family with a specialist range of support and information
* Special leave options (such as up to 5 days paid leave for domestic or personal emergencies a year)
* 10 days paid disability leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
* 10 days paid carers’ leave a year, pro-rata for part-time
* Cycle to work scheme
* Death in service scheme
* New family-friendly benefits, including paid leave:
o In the event of miscarriage or still birth
o To support fertility treatments
o For antenatal appointments for both parents
Thinking about your finances:
* Enhanced salary sacrifice pension scheme
* Discounted season ticket loan and interest-free emergency loans
* Give as you earn to support other charities of your choice before tax
* New employee portal including lifestyle savings vouchers and personal wellbeing
Enriching your life at work:
* Personalised development plans with a wide range of training courses and opportunities to source additional training options with your line manager
* Yearly internal apprenticeship opportunities
* New, modern offices that embrace working together both in-person and remotely
* Various opportunities to influence how we internally operate (including surveys, and focus and committee groups)
* Active and supportive internal employee networking groups for collaboration and peer support
* 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering for MS Society activities during normal working hours (such as fundraising events, or campaigning in the local community)
* 2 days paid leave a year for volunteering with other charities during normal
Safeguarding
We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services and we come into contact with.
This is regardless of Gender, Race, Disability, Sexual orientation, Religion or belief, Pregnancy, Gender reassignment.
We recognise our particular responsibility to make sure vulnerable adults and children are protected.
We have measures in place to protect everyone we come into contact with from abuse and maltreatment of all kinds.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have the right to work in the UK to work in paid employment with us. You’ll need to share documents showing you’re eligible to work in the UK if we offer you employment.
You can find the UK visas and permits granting you the right to work in the UK on the UK Government website. We currently don’t have a Sponsor Licence agreement with the Home Office and aren’t able to support you with your visa applications.
No agencies please.