Senior Data & Insight Officer

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This new full – time post is available from February 2026 on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home. We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part‑time hours or job‑sharing arrangements.

The Senior Data and Insights Officer will play a key role in further developing, maintaining and expanding the Data Connect services of data management, reporting and insight.

The goal of the Data Connect service is to deliver the University’s Data Strategy, which aims to lay the foundations for excellence in data management, embed future‑ready technologies, deliver an effective user‑led service, and produce useful and usable data products. The service is critical to helping the University deliver excellent teaching and impactful research and achieve its strategic goals via enabling evidence‑led decision‑making.

The role will be assigned to one or more of the University’s data domains; delivering defined products and outcomes and developing working relationships, knowledge, and subject matter expertise to provide a holistic data and insights service. There will be the opportunity to shape the ways data and information is used and presented to inform decision making across the institution; providing analytics, including metrics and outputs at institutional level and divisional levels, and working closely with stakeholders of all seniority levels across the University.

We are recruiting to three vacancies. Two will be working across our portfolio which includes education, student experience, and HR data.

One vacancy will be aligned to our Research Data team with specific responsibilities as listed below. Please highlight in your application if you have experience working with research management data:

• Develop and monitor key research metrics and risk warning systems that indicate the University’s performance in Research & Impact, and maintain associated dashboards
• Prepare regular research performance reporting for the Research and Impact Executive Committee, (RIEC) the University’s Executive Board and other relevant committees and stakeholder groups.
• Support the information requirements for the departmental annual research review meetings by collating, validating and presenting data from multiple sources.
• Lead the preparation of data for the Research Excellence Framework ()
• Support the information requirements for annual research planning exercise.

• Provide information and analysis, including the creation of dashboards and reports, to ensure that high quality data and insight is available to support the university’s strategic aims, inform decision making within the institution, and support statutory, regulatory and accreditation obligations.
• Work with colleagues across the University to develop the Data Connect service. This will involve maintaining and enhancing existing data products, generating new datasets and reports, sharing and supporting the interpretation of data and insight, and providing an excellent service for users.
• Identify, define and develop new data and reporting initiatives working closely with customers across the institution.
• Work with both technical and non-technical colleagues to translate business reporting requirements into effective data and reporting solutions, prioritising efficiency, resilience, and reusability.
• Develop and produce appropriate high-quality analysis, metrics, benchmarking, performance monitoring, scenario modelling and forecasting, working with colleagues across the Data Team to exchange knowledge, share and draw upon expertise, and develop a supportive, resilient working and learning environment.
• Provide support and technical expertise in shaping system data design, data collection, and technical processes to ensure robust reporting is feasible.
• Work closely with system owners and/or…