Celebrity & VIP Lead

As Celebrity & VIP Lead, you'll help build and nurture relationships with celebrities, VIPs, influencers, ambassadors, and their representatives, ensuring every supporter has an exceptional experience with Marie Curie. You'll play a key role in identifying new opportunities, supporting campaigns and events, and helping maximise the impact of celebrity engagement across fundraising, media, marketing, and public affairs activity

Working closely with colleagues across the organisation, you'll coordinate media opportunities, support high-profile events, manage stakeholder relationships, conduct due diligence, and help ensure celebrity engagement delivers measurable outcomes for the charity.

Your Impact: 

• Building and stewarding relationships with celebrities, VIPs, influencers and their teams.
• Identifying and developing new celebrity engagement opportunities that support awareness, influence and fundraising goals.
• Supporting media interviews, photoshoots, events, campaigns, podcasts and digital content opportunities.
• Providing outstanding supporter care and logistical support before, during and after engagements.
• Collaborating with teams across PR, Marketing, Fundraising, Policy and Campaigning to maximise impact.
• Conducting due diligence and identifying potential reputational risks.
• Monitoring celebrity and social media activity to identify opportunities and inform team planning.
• Supporting reporting, evaluation and measurement against agreed KPIs.

Key Criteria

• Experience working with celebrities, VIPs, influencers or other high-profile stakeholders.
• Experience managing relationships and delivering outstanding stakeholder stewardship.
• Experience of managing logistics for celebrities& VIPs at relevant events.
• Experience supporting media, social media, podcast or PR activity.
• Strong knowledge of UK media, digital and social media channels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities, think proactively and remain calm under pressure.
• Experience working with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of reputation management, due diligence and GDPR principles.
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Please see the full job description HERE 

Application & Interview Process

• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and supplementary details. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
• Close date for applications: Wednesday 15th July 2026

• We encourage early applications as we may close the job advert sooner after receiving a sufficient number of applications.
• Salary: £38,007 - £42,230 plus LW were applicable (£3,500) must be in London office 2 days per week 
• Contract:  Full time
• Based:  Hybrid role based in London, with regular travel to events. Please note this role will include some evening and weekend working.

Benefits you’ll LOVE

• Flexible working. We’re happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• Industry-leading training programmes
• Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
• Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
• Access to Blue Light Card membership
• Subsidised Eye Care

 

At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone — staff and volunteers alike — supportive, inclusive and rewarding.  We take stringent steps to ensure that anyone who joins our organisation are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. We actively consider our impact on the planet, embedding sustainability into everyday decisions to create a lasting, positive difference for the individuals we care for and the world we share.

We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and fulfil their potential. Marie Curie is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, recognising both the social justice imperative and the strength a diverse workforce brings.  We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you require any support, please contact us at [email hidden] .

Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team, and in return, we ask that your application authentically reflects you — your experience, perspective and voice.