Head of Data Insight and Analysis - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Location:


  • Curzon Building
    Salary:
- £50,321 to £54,699 per annum
  • Permanent
    Post Type:
  • Full Time
    Release Date:
  • 14 August 2023
    Closing Date:
hours BST on Sunday 10 September 2023
Interview Date:


  • Thursday 28 September 2023
    Reference:

Birmingham City University is the university for Birmingham - delivering transformational higher education to a large and diverse body of students from Birmingham, West Midlands, UK and overseas.

We need to be constantly alert and responsive to the changing economic and policy environment.

The post of Head of Data Insight and Analysis in the Planning and Performance Department is an exciting new leadership opportunity collating, investigating, synthesising, connecting, visualising, and summarising data at all levels.

Your/your team's investigations and problem solutions will enable you to advise on strategy and actions to improve BCU student performance and experience, and to ensure BCU is well-placed in the data-driven regulatory and competitive environment of Higher Education.

You will be working closely with senior executives at BCU, academic staff in individual Faculties and with strategy and data colleagues across a range of professional service areas.


About the role:

The Planning and Performance Department is a small, friendly team where you will be supported with development opportunities.

The team delivers dynamic, contextualised business insights to support academic quality assurance and enhancement, institutional strategic decision-making, business planning and continuous improvement.

We work with colleagues across the University to support senior leaders in making well-informed and evidence-led decisions. Our remit includes horizon scanning and interpreting policy developments.

We ensure that the University meets statutory and regulatory reporting requirements and provide guidance on compliance with conditions of registration with the Office for Students.

The role of Head of Data Insight and Analysis is suited to an ambitious Higher Education data professional, seeking their next important step in their career into management, data synthesis and insight, and wanting to be able to directly influence institutional strategy.

To deliver high quality outcomes for our students, we need incisive data insights and analysis.

As our dynamic Head of Data Insight and Analysis, you will deliver revealing data discovery back to the business to drive change.

Working within Planning and Performance team, you will lead, scope, design and undertake targeted data analysis, of internal and external datasets, to support critical business decisions and strategy development at BCU.

You will manage a small expert team of data analysts producing analysis, reports, and evaluations to lead to transformative understanding of causes and patterns in our data to inform interventions.


The Head of Data Insight and Analysis will:

  • Scope and lead regular and bespoke data analysis.
  • Support evidencebased design and evaluation of change initiatives.
  • Deliver data to the business through reports, dashboards, other visualisations.
  • Support the development of further business intelligence solutions.
  • Manage pre and post survey data aspects of NSS, Graduate Outcomes and other student surveys.
  • Deliver rich, contextualised reporting to senior managers, Board of Governors, and external regulators.
  • Work collaboratively with teams across our large organisation to deliver new data insight and enhance data quality.
In return, we offer a pension and generous annual leave provision.

We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties.

We also provide access to excellent facilities on campus, including supportive family friendly policies.


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