Digital Learning & Adoption Specialist
£43,000 – £48,000 plus benefits. Reports to: Head of Talent & Leadership. Directorate: Chief Operating Office, HR, Organisation Effectiveness & Talent. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time. Location: Stratford, London (office-based with high flexibility: 2 days per week in office). Closing date: 26 July 2026.
Overview
We’re looking for a Digital Learning & Adoption Specialist to own and continuously improve our learning ecosystem, creating a high‑quality, personalised and insight‑led digital experience for colleagues. In this hands‑on role, you’ll act with ambition, courage and determination to drive adoption, engagement and continuous improvement, helping colleagues build capability in the flow of work while contributing to high performance across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Own and enhance the end‑to‑end learning ecosystem experience, ensuring it is intuitive, accessible and valuable for colleagues.
- Drive adoption and engagement through campaigns, in‑platform experiences and test‑and‑learn approaches.
- Manage the learning content lifecycle, ensuring materials are current, relevant and aligned to priority capabilities.
- Use data and insight to continuously improve the learning experience and increase platform usage.
- Design and optimise personalisation and segmentation to deliver targeted, relevant learning journeys.
- Maintain standards for taxonomy, accessibility and content quality across the learning platform.
Qualifications
- Experience managing digital learning platforms or ecosystems, including structure, accessibility and discoverability.
- Proven ability to drive engagement and adoption through campaigns or behavioural approaches.
- Experience using data and insights to improve user experience and learning impact.
- Strong digital learning design capability, creating engaging, bite‑sized or in‑workflow content.
- Experience using AI tools (including GenAI) to support learning or content creation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence and collaborate across a matrix environment.
Eligibility and Work Rights
You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer ResearchUK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Values
Our organisation values guide all that we do: ambition, courage, determination, rigour, professionalism, positivity, inclusiveness and collaboration. We look for people who embody these values and can drive progress towards our mission to beat cancer.
Benefits
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high‑quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work‑life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are under‑represented. We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. If you need any adjustments to enable this, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 02034698400 as soon as possible.
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