Senior Data and Insights Officer

Our charity has an award-winning tuition programme that helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds in further education to pass GCSEs in English or maths. We deliver a bespoke curriculum that builds confidence and skills in these core subjects.

THE ROLE

The Senior Data and Insights Officer will help us to demonstrate the importance of our tuition for young people and adults who are undertaking these foundational qualifications. Working with the Director of Impact, within our Quality and Impact Team to:

Database Usage and Reporting  

• Support our Salesforce Lead in creating reports and dashboards, ensuring all data is relevant, accurate and secure.
• Generate reports and data analysis for the Senior Leadership Team, to support marketing campaigns, fundraising campaigns, statutory information requests and organisational insight.  
• Prepare reports for college partners, funders, and the Board, which set out our data, findings and impact, clearly and accurately.
• Confidently write about insights and findings from our data, generating learnings and recommendations for the organisation and other stakeholders.

Internal & External Evaluations

• Support in developing assessment frameworks to robustly measure our impact and designing dissemination plans, to best harness and communicate that impact.
• Oversee and implement internal evaluation activity
• Review and enhance data collection tools, process, analysis, and reporting.
• Undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis of our evaluation data; and use the data to make recommendations to improve programme quality.
• Review and keep abreast of literature and research in the further education, wider education, tuition and research landscape.
• Manage large research projects with external evaluators.

Policy, Compliance & Quality Assurance 

• Support our ongoing compliance with GDPR across the organisation and uphold our safeguarding frameworks.  
• Implement policies and procedures relating to GDPR ensuring those policies are adhered to across the organisation. 

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL 

• Commitment to Get Further’s mission and values.
• Familiarity with database systems, like Salesforce (or interest in learning).
• Skilled in data analysis: able to use complex data to produce accurate, insightful and engaging findings and recommendations.
• Research experience e.g. designing qualitative and quantitative instruments, survey design, knowledge of research designs (QED, RCT), ethical considerations, participatory research.
• IT skills e.g. MS Office (Word and Excel), data analytics software like Tableau, PowerBi.
• Project management experience: excellent at planning and managing projects, tracking key deliverables, overseeing budgets and financial controls.
• Knowledge of GDPR requirements, policies, processes and organisational compliance.
• Strong attention to detail, prioritises precision and accuracy.
• Problem-solver
• Excellent communication skills (including written and verbal skills).
• Excellent interpersonal skills: is proactive, enthusiastic, resilient and supportive team member.
• Organised, excellent time management and can work well independently.
• Committed to safeguarding the young people we work with

DESIRABLE  

• Familiarity with the FE sector.  
• Has experience of and/or overseen research trials (e.g. Randomised Control Trials or Quasi-Experimental Designs).

HOW TO APPLY 

Your application must include: 

• A CV of no more than 2 sides of A4; and
• A supporting statement which includes your answers to the following three questions:

1. Why do you want to work for Get Further? (250 words);
2. Please demonstrate your relevant skills and experience, as related to the three aspects of the role(600 words):
   1. Database Usage and Reporting;
   2. Internal and External Evaluations;
   3. Policy, Compliance and Quality Assurance.
3. If your application is successful, what two aspects of the role would be the biggest challenge for you, and how would you resolve these challenges? (250 words)

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