Job title: Associate Director of Data and Digital Transformation
Hours: 35 hours per week
Employment type: Permanent
Team: Digital, Data and Technology
Location: Hybrid (average of 1 day per week in London office)
Line Manager: Chief Operating Officer
Direct Reports: 4
Anderson Quigley is excited to be working with the Teenage Cancer Trust on this critical transformational leadership role within the senior leadership team. As Associate Director of Data and Digital Transformation, you will shape a vision for Digital, Data and Technology as strategic enablers of impact. You’ll work with teams across the charity to shape sustainable services with and for young people with cancer, increase our audience reach, drive sustainable income generation, and demonstrate our impact. You’ll shine a light on the value of data, build collective confidence, and connect technology potential to measurable outcomes. You’ll influence horizontally, organise great people, and deliver value fast through product ways of working. As a leader, you’ll bring energy and influence, maturity of thought, and the ability to design, prioritise, and deliver.
This is a hands‑on, delivery‑focused leadership role for someone who can build practical solutions, develop teams, and embed a service‑oriented, user‑centred approach across the charity. You will shape the future of DDaT, oversee a largely outsourced technology function, uplift data maturity, and ensure digital and technology services enable our mission. This role will play a key part on the Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively with colleagues across Services, Engagement, and Central Support teams.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a creative, energetic, and influential product‑minded leader to help Teenage Cancer Trust repurpose digital and data toward service impact. This is not a traditional DDaT director role. You’ll work across teams to shape our services, shine a light on the value of data, build collective confidence, and connect technology potential to measurable outcomes. You don’t need to have held a formal leadership title—but you must operate as a leader, bring energy, maturity of thought, and the ability to design, prioritise, and deliver.
* Strong leadership background across digital, data or technology, ideally within a small, innovative organisation. This does not have to be at a senior level but evidenced in your application by mentoring/influencing and bringing people together.
* Credible technical knowledge and up‑to‑date understanding of developments in technology.
* Deep experience of working effectively with other professions and leaders as part of a multi‑disciplinary team.
* Experience of service design in a charity, public sector or service delivery organisation.
* Demonstrable experience of developing DDaT teams, and of developing digital and data capabilities across an organisation, ideally in a charity or public‑service context.
* A track record of improving data maturity and operational use of data and insight.
* Hands‑on delivery experience; comfortable rolling up sleeves and making practical improvements.
Skills & Attributes
* A genuine people person who builds trust quickly and collaborates naturally.
* Pragmatic, grounded and solutions‑focused — not just a strategist, but someone who turns ideas into real, tangible outcomes.
* Able to support teams with limited digital or data experience and guide them through a development journey.
* Comfortable operating in ambiguity and capable of setting clear direction in evolving environments.
* Strong service mindset with an understanding of co‑design principles and agile ways of working.
Our commitment to inclusion and accessibility:
At Teenage Cancer Trust one of our key focuses is around equity and making sure our services are accessible and inclusive to all young people with cancer, with no‑one left behind. We have the same goal for people working with us. Teenage Cancer Trust is committed to recognising and valuing individual differences and the contributions of all people.
Should you require any assistance or adjustments to support your interview process, such as additional time for tasks, meeting the panellists beforehand, information in another format or a different interview format (online/offline/in person), please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the HR Team.
We are a Disability Confident employer which means we have committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role listed under the ‘What you’ll bring to the team’ section of the job description and shortlisting questions.
Please notify Grace Tattersall if you are eligible for the guaranteed offer of interview scheme.
Please note that in recruitment campaigns with a high volume of candidates opting into the scheme, interview offers will be made only to those who best meet the essential criteria and provide the strongest responses to the shortlisting questions.
Privacy and Safeguarding:
At Teenage Cancer Trust we take our commitment to safeguarding seriously and work to protect and promote the rights of the young people who we support. Our safeguarding responsibilities extend to the children and adults who work to support the charity, who we also have a duty of care to protect. Safeguarding is at the forefront of each activity we carry out. In line with our approach, this role is subject to a DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).
For information on how we collect, store and process personal data please get in touch with the HR Team.
At Teenage Cancer Trust we’re committed to delivering a service to teenagers and young adults with cancer that is embedded in safeguarding and safe working practice guidance. As this role will it is subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.
How to apply
Please apply with your CV and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, outlining how you meet the person specification, and the key skills and attributes required to grace.tattersall@andersponquigley.com.
Please note, preliminary interviews are proposed to be the week of the 4th of May 2026. Follow up interviews for successful candidates are proposed to take place the week of the 18th May 2026.
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