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Insight and Evaluation Officer

University of Bristol - Education and Student Success

Location: Bristol
Salary: £37,099 to £42,978 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 27th September 2024
Closes: 13th October 2024
Job Ref: SUPP111654

The role

The Insight and Evaluation Team, based within Student Journey, is a newly formed team responsible for providing expertise in the evaluation of initiatives to widen access to higher education and address inequalities in student success, deliver a range of market insight work to support academic portfolio development and advise on student recruitment strategy. This role will lead on multiple streams of work within the team, helping it support data-led decision making across the university and contributing to a culture of high quality evaluation.

What will you be doing?

  • Evaluate widening participation and student success activity. You’ll support colleagues working across the institution to rigorously evaluate activity that forms part of the University’s new Access and Participation Plan. You’ll provide reporting to help project owners understand the impact of their work, offer expert advice on how to design projects with evaluation in mind from the outset and help make the findings of evaluation accessible to different audiences.
  • Advise on student recruitment strategy – You’ll establish yourself as an expert on the recruitment of undergraduate and postgraduate students, helping the university not just to meet its intake targets but also to continue diversifying its student body.
  • Turn data into insight. You’ll contribute to the development of curated narrative insight in the form of briefing packs, presentations and reports that shows senior decision makers the most important trends at the most relevant points. Rather than reporting data for data’s sake, you’ll use your expertise to harness the power of the University’s data to answer key questions quickly and accessibly.
  • Develop excellent technical skills and working with data. The team’s insight work is primarily produced using SQL and Python and version controlled using Git. You’ll be supporting to invest in your technical skills, contribute to a shared culture of learning in the team and harness innovative technical solution to increase the pace and quality of outputted work.

You should apply if

  • You have a strong understanding of either student recruitment/admissions in higher education or evaluating access and participation plan countable activity
  • You have a good grasp of the data landscape when working with national demographics and social inequalities
  • You’re highly numerate with a good understanding of statistics
  • You have experience of working with programming or query languages such as Python, R, SQL or have a proven ability to pick up new technical skills quickly
  • You’re able to present complex, technical information in a way that is accessible to different audiences

Additional information

For informal queries please contact Samuel Jones, Head of Insight & Evaluation:

samuel.jones@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 13/10/2024.

Interviews are anticipated to take place on 29/10/2024.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.
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