Academy Specialist - Data, Technology & Change

Academy Specialist - Data, Technology and Change

Location: Norwich, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield or York based (50% hybrid working)

Salary: £34,100 - £46,000 - depending on experience

Are you someone who enjoys working across teams, joining the dots and turning strategy into practical delivery? Do you love to organise, coordinate and improve how things run – while building strong relationships along the way?

This is a great job for someone who is passionate about learning, capability building and helping others grow their skills.

This role would suit someone with experience in learning, within data or technology  environments, who’s ready to step into a hands‑on role supporting an Academy that’s shaping Aviva’s future skills. You need to be comfortable influencing, collaborating and delivering through others. If you’re excited by innovation, continuous improvement and making a real impact at scale, this could be the role for you.

A bit about the job:

This role exists to help set up, integrate and run the Data, Technology & Change Academy, including The Foundry. As the Academy Specialist, you will support the Academy Lead to make sure the Academy runs smoothly, delivers high‑quality learning and continues to grow across One Aviva.

Working closely with Talent Partners, Learning & Development teams and business stakeholders, you will help embed best practice and a strong learning culture. In this role, you will be accountable for coordinating activity, maintaining resources, supporting governance and tracking impact to show the value the Academy delivers. Through great organisation, collaboration and curiosity, you will help ensure our people have the skills they need for today and tomorrow.

This role involves regular travel—typically a minimum of once per quarter—to other office locations for the delivery of training courses and participation in internal meetings.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience in learning & awareness of activities across the People Function along with proven experience in technology, AI and/or Data industries and how learning supports these capabilities.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the resilience to manage multiple priorities at pace and work effectively through ambiguity across several initiatives.
• Confidence working with stakeholders across different teams and levels, building effective working relationships
• Forward-thinking mindset and an ability to develop new ideas, be creative and join the dots.
• A proactive, improvement‑focused mindset, with attention to detail and a desire to make things better

What you’ll get:

Our purpose – with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We want you to shine. That’s why we have so much to offer you:

• Salary around £34,100 - £46,000 - depending on skills, experience, and qualifications

• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary, depending on your performance and the business’

• 29 days of paid leave exclusive of public holidays - with the option of buying or selling additional holiday days

• Generous pension scheme – we’ll contribute up to 14%

• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please send a mail to Beatrix Rozsa at beatrix.rozsa@aviva.com.