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SalaryClosing Date: 05/03/2024, 23.59
Interview Date: Friday 22 March 2024
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 Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis) is a key role in a team of curiosity-driven analysts, interrogating, summarising and reporting external and internal data to understand ways to achieve successful outcomes and outstanding experience for all our students. Your work will support advice to the Vice-Chancellor and his senior team 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 all members of the Planning and Performance Department, with academic staff in individual faculties and with strategy and data colleagues across a range of professional service areas.
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 Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis) will be part of our new Data Insight and Analysis team, and is suited to data professionals, ideally with Higher Education or similar experience and provides an excellent step into a career in Higher Education planning and data analysis.
To deliver high quality outcomes for our students, we need incisive data insights and Analysis. In this role, you will deliver revealing data discovery back to the business to drive change. Working within the Planning and Performance team, you will, design and undertake targeted data analysis, of internal and external datasets, to support critical business decisions and strategy development at BCU. Your work will help us drive transformative change.
Drawing on your existing data analysis and reporting skills, and rapidly learning new skills sets, products and the business requirements of HE, you will:
- Report and analyse key data sets, both internal and external, on student numbers, demographics, surveys etc.
- Analyse, predict and plan to improve League Table performance.
- Prepare datasets, dashboards, analysis and modelling to support information being sent to the HE regulator and other external bodies.
- Undertake a wide range of data analysis to drill down to root causes, evaluate efficacy of interventions and recommend solutions.
- Develop impactful dashboarding and data visualisation, drawing on data warehouse solutions.
- Provide incisive reports for decision-making committees of the University.
- Liaise with external data bodies and networks.
- Play a key role in enhancement projects around business intelligence, data quality or planning.
Requirements for the post include (among other things) a good technical data skillset, experience of business intelligence tools, experience of working collegiately across departments and great organisational and communication skills. Ideally you will have some experience of working in Higher Education – but it’s not essential – more important is an inquiring mind and investigative mindset.
