Learning and Development Assistant in Cambridge

Join Us in Making a Global Impact! Are you energised by helping people learn new skills and turn curiosity into capability? At Cambridge University Press & Assessment, we are on a mission to enhance education and research for over 100 million learners, teachers, and researchers worldwide. Our Data & AI Academy equips colleagues across the organisation with practical data and AI skills - and we are looking for an L&D Assistant to help us deliver an exceptional learner experience at scale.

Why you will love working with us:

• This is a great opportunity for someone looking to develop a career in Learning & Development.
• Innovative environment: Your ideas for smarter, more inclusive learning really matter here. Experiment, iterate, and help us raise the bar for workplace learning.
• Collaborative culture: Work with a supportive community spanning Academy leaders, subject-matter experts, internal comms, and communities of practice - all passionate about growing data and AI capability.
• World-class organisation: Be part of a globally respected institution with a learning mission at its heart - and the scale to make a real difference.

About the role:

As the Learning and Development Assistant for our Data & AI Academy, you will work with the Product Owner to help keep our learning pathways, events, and communities running brilliantly - so colleagues can build the data and AI skills they need. Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Curating and producing learning content: Help assess support needs; source and curate learning materials; maintain resources across platforms (e.g., Articulate, Workday LMS); copy-edit and prepare learning content and audio-visual assets.
• Events & communities: Deliver end-to-end logistics for virtual and in-person events; run lunch-and-learns, flash talks, and short-form speaker sessions; keep Academy calendars updated and maintain the Academy intranet portal.
• Learner engagement & insight: Monitor engagement, administer surveys, and support analysis of learner feedback to improve content, events, and pathways.
• Programme operations: Coordinate mentoring/buddying; respond to learner queries; staff Academy stalls at internal events and signpost the right next step.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to disability or long-term health condition.

About you:

We are looking for someone with:

• Strong interpersonal skills and relationship-building ability; clear written communication and attention to detail.
• Great planning and coordination - you thrive on smooth logistics and tidy calendars.
• Passion for learning new skills themselves.
• Awareness of workplace learning and development principles and practices, as well as the relevance of different data and AI skills in the workplace.

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria, which otherwise will be developed on-the-job:

• Comfortable with (or quick to learn) digital content tools (e.g., Canva, Articulate) and confident using Copilot to boost your productivity.
• Experience supporting L&D activities/events and communities of practice; able to gather feedback and use engagement metrics to improve the learner experience.
• Awareness of approaches to on-the-job learning, community-based learning and work-based training.
• Awareness of data literacy and AI-related learning programmes.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role.

Rewards and benefits:

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 12th April 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing 20th April 2026.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

• 1st stage in-office interview at our offices in Cambridge.
• A presentation task will be given to shortlisted candidates, with instructions sent in advance of the interview.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why join us:

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.