Do you want to help us to Beat Cancer Sooner?

Do you have stacks of Learning & Development experience and can bring the best out of people?

Are you looking for a short term opportunity and have maximum impact within a Learning & Development team within the biggest charity in the UK?

We’re looking to recruit a creative and driven L&D professional on a 6 month contract to:

• Support our ambitious Volunteer Fundraising strategy by designing innovative and engaging business focussed learning solutions for our regional teams, support teams and volunteers
• Research, design, deliver and evaluate learning and development initiatives for our teams across the UK
• Champion and foster a learning and development culture across the department
• Deliver learning and development projects having maximum impact on our teams, enabling them to deliver our strategy of beating cancer sooner.

Here at Cancer Research UK, our Volunteer Fundraising Team contributes over £30 million per year towards funding groundbreaking work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. We work with amazing supporters and businesses across the UK and engage with communities to fundraise and share our vision to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. With over 120 staff across the UK and growing rapidly, our Fundraising teams and people are at the heart of this.

As a team we are passionate about Learning & Development. We strongly believe that by immersing ourselves fully into the business and working closely with all Volunteer Fundraising teams, we will enable our staff to reach their personal potential, achieve our organisational goals and maximise fundraising for our life-saving research.

 Help us to beat cancer sooner through your:

• Significant learning and development experience, either in the voluntary or commercial sector
• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to adapt style and approach to different audiences and with various levels of management
• Proven ability to motivate, coach and develop staff and volunteers to reach their potential
• Proven ability to facilitate change by encouraging teams to seek out and respond to opportunities

As a team, we’re innovators and we have a great focus on sales leadership, improved ways of working and have a very business focussed culture. We need the right person to help take us to the next level in a short space of time. This is a challenging and exciting role, and you’ll have excellent communication and relationship building skills to quickly build rapport with colleagues across the UK.

This role is home based or can be based in our London office (Angel) if preferred. You’ll need to be open to travelling across the UK as required. 

Closing date: Tuesday 1st November 2016

Interviews: Between 3rd November 2016 and 9th November 2016

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