Professional Development and Knowledge Lead

Professional Development & Knowledge Lead x3
Contract type: Permanent 
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and a Macmillan office – typically once a month in office for team activities. We welcome applications from candidates based anywhere in the UK.
Salary range: £44,500 - £49,500

Are you passionate about designing impactful learning that makes a real difference? Do you thrive on collaboration, innovation and creating inclusive education and training that empowers communities and the cancer workforce?

We’re recruiting 3 new Professional Development & Knowledge Leads to help deliver high‑impact professional development for those supporting people living with cancer.

About us

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

About the role

Our Professional Development & Knowledge team plays a vital role in equipping the cancer workforce, wider community partners and internal teams with the knowledge, tools and skills they need to provide the best possible care for people living with cancer.

You will play a key role in delivering national and local professional development ambitions. You will design, create and deliver engaging education and development solutions that equip professionals, wider workforces and communities to better support people living with cancer.

Working closely with colleagues across teams and nations, you will ensure learning is strategically aligned, evidence-based, inclusive and centred on the lived experiences of people affected by cancer.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and deliver clinical and non-clinical education aligned to a strategic professional development plan.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to shape and support local and national Professional Development workforce and communities plans.
• Use internal and external insight to inform and develop learning solutions and increase impact and reach.
• Ensure people living with cancer, healthcare professionals and communities are central to decision-making.
• Embed diversity, equity and inclusion across all professional development offers.
• Collect and analyse impact and evaluation data to evidence return on investment and inform improvement.
• Share learning, intelligence and best practice across Professional Development and Professional Engagement teams.
• Facilitate innovation and continuous improvement through proactive knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to the review and development of policies to ensure they remain relevant and fit for purpose.

About you

You will thrive in this role if you enjoy working collaboratively in complex stakeholder environments and are motivated by improving learning experiences for professionals and communities.

You will bring:

• Experience of working in health or social care, the NHS or a health charity (desirable, not essential)
• Knowledge of cancer care, palliative care, long-term conditions or a related specialist area (desirable, not essential)
• Experience designing, delivering and facilitating learning interventions
• Experience evaluating learning and development initiatives using data and insight
• Strong planning, organisational and project management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to influence decisions
• Experience building and managing collaborative stakeholder relationships
• Experience facilitating communities of practice and/or action learning sets
• Understanding of learning and education trends and best practice
• Experience conducting training/learning needs analysis
• Data analysis and report writing skills
  
  

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 31st May 2026
First stage interview date: Online interviews will take place on 9th-10th June
Second stage interview date: Online interviews will take place on 16th June

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

So we can support you to be at your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.