Overview
Culture of professionalism. Example of leadership. Core of company support.
Learning Technology & Capability Specialist
Could be known as - Digital Learning Specialist, Learning & Development Specialist, Digital Learning Consultant
Internal Job tile: Talent & Leadership Advisor
Salary: £37,000 - £44,000 plus benefits
Reports to: Head of Talent & Leadership
Grade: P2
Directorate: Chief Operating Office
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London with high flex. 1-2 days in the office.
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing dates: 23:55 29 March 2026.
How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section and answer application questions in your online form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.
Recruitment process: 1st stage competency questions and 2nd stage will consist of a task and competency questions.
Interview date: From 7 April 2026
At Cancer Research UK, we're transforming how 4,000+ colleagues grow, lead and work smarter. We're looking for a digital learning specialist who wants to design experiences, not just content. Someone who can shape how learning platforms are used, build engaging practice led pathways, and drive real adoption of the skills colleagues need for the future.
If you're passionate about creating intuitive learning ecosystems, improving discoverability, designing practice rich digital learning, and enabling confident use of technology (including safe GenAI), this is a role where you can have organisation wide impact.
What you'll be doing
Designing meaningful, practice-led digital learning:
* Turning leadership, capability and digital skills priorities into practical resources - guides, toolkits, scenarios, and job aids that support real-world learning.
* Curating pathways that blend microlearning, practice, feedback, role-specific scenarios and peer support.
Shaping our learning platforms and ecosystem:
* Improving how colleagues find and use learning by shaping playlists, tagging, recommendations, accessibility, audience design and continuous improvement.
* Ensuring learning across platforms feels connected, intuitive, and aligned to our brand and strategy.
Driving adoption through smart, targeted activity:
* Running targeted learning nudges and activity-testing formats, channels and prompts to improve engagement and behaviour change.
* Creating safe spaces for colleagues to build confidence through simulations, sandboxes and in-app guidance.
Supporting digital skills development:
* Identifying priority tools and defining role based proficiency levels.
* Designing interventions that help colleagues build digital capability efficiently and confidently.
Using data to improve learning experiences:
* Tracking usage, adoption and outcomes, and working with People Ops and Data & Insight to turn evidence into platform, content and experience improvements.
Championing inclusive, ethical and accessible design:
* Applying accessibility and inclusive design principles across all digital learning.
* Using GenAI responsibly - with clear quality, privacy and IP controls.
What we're looking for
Digital learning & learning design expertise:
* Experience designing workflow-centred, bite-size, practice-led digital learning.
* Strong grounding in micro-learning, spaced learning and creating learning that improves performance at the point of need.
Learning platforms / ecosystem experience:
* Experience shaping how learning platforms are used - improving discoverability, user journeys and relevance (not just administering a system).
Digital skills & adoption:
* Confidence building digital skills programmes, simulations, in-app support or role-based proficiency approaches.
* Experience driving adoption of new tools, systems or capabilities.
Data, insight & iteration:
* Ability to use learning data and behavioural insights to evolve content, campaigns and platform experience.
Influencing & partnership:
* A collaborative, confident communicator who can influence across teams, shape decisions and align stakeholders.
Ethical, inclusive practice:
* Commitment to accessibility, inclusive design and responsible use of GenAI.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
What will I gain?
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.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
Additional information
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