he has worked for the victoria and albert museum as director of development from 2002–2005, as a consultant to the royal national institute for deaf people from 2005-6, and the national museums of scotland. he also established the university of ulster's first development office in belfast in 1993 and has worked for guinness plc ("now diageo") as pr and as a director in belfast of absa (now arts and business). his client list has included the catholic bishops' conference of england and wales, edinburgh college of art, the vatican museums (of which he is a uk trustee), the rosslyn chapel, worth abbey and the world monuments fund (gb)amongst others. the irish episcopal conference retained mccaffrey as their fundraising advisor for the international eucharistic congress which took place in dublin in 2012. in 2010, he was the principal fundraising advisor for the papal visit to the united kingdom in september 2010. £6.5 million was raised towards the cost of the papal visit in 7 months.