Talent & Leadership Advisor

Culture of professionalism. Example of leadership. Core of company support.

Talent & Leadership Advisor

£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 1 March 2026.

If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.

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.

Recruitment process: 1st stage competency questions and 2nd stage will consist of a task and competency questions.

Interview date: From 6 March 2026

At Cancer Research UK, we want every colleague to grow, lead and work smarter. This role will make learning easy to find, easy to use, and deeply connected to the skills people need-today and for the future. You'll improve adoption of our leadership and talent priorities, personalise learning through our platforms, and help colleagues build confidence with priority technologies and safe GenAI.

What you'll be doing:

• Turning leadership, capability and digital skills priorities into practical, accessible learning resources.
• Managing and improving our learning ecosystem-ensuring smart use of tagging, audience groups, playlists, recommendations and accessibility, while keeping the catalogue clean and brand aligned.aligned.
• Running targeted learning campaigns that boost engagement, testing formats, channels and nudges to improve impact.
• Supporting digital skills development by identifying essential tools, defining role-based proficiency, and curating practical learning pathways. rich learning pathways.
• Partnering with teams across the organisation to design and deliver platform enabled learning using strong digital learning design principles. enabled learning using strong digital learning design principles.
• Creating safe practice environments-such as simulations, sandboxes and in-app guidance to build confidence and reduce time-to-competence. app guidance-to build confidence and reduce time-to-competence.
• Coordinating readiness for technology rollouts, supporting champions and providing rapid enablement to remove barriers.
• Using GenAI responsibly to support content creation and guidance.
• Tracking adoption, outcomes and engagement metrics, and working with Data & Insight to turn evidence into platform, content and campaign improvements.
• Ensuring ethical, inclusive learning practices that safeguard fairness, accessibility and confidentiality.

What we're looking for:

• Strong experience designing workflow centred, bitesize learning (micro-learning, practice and feedback, spaced learning) and using GenAI safely and responsibly in content production centred, bitesize learning (micro-learning, practice and feedback, spaced learning) and using GenAI safely and responsibly in content production.
• Hands on experience managing multi platform learning ecosystems, with excellent taxonomy, accessibility and catalogue management skills.
• Experience managing multiplatform learning ecosystems, with excellent taxonomy, accessibility and catalogue management skills.
• Experience designing and running targeted campaigns, using prompts, nudges and A/B tests to boost learning adoption.
• Skilled in building digital skills programmes, including simulations, guidance and proficiency checks.
• Understanding of responsible GenAI use with robust quality assurance, privacy and IP controls.
• Deep commitment to accessibility and inclusive design across digital learning.
• Ability to support change adoption through strong planning, stakeholder mapping and clear communications.
• A confident communicator who influences effectively to drive uptake and impact.

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.

If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still love to hear from you.

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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