Institutional Data Insight Lead

Kingston University is seeking an Institutional Performance Data Insight Lead to embed data into our business-as-usual operations and drive a culture of data confidence across the institution.

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead the stewardship, analysis, and visualisation of institutional performance data, ensuring it is accurate, accessible, and impactful. You’ll develop and maintain Tableau dashboards and other analytical tools, enabling both academic and professional services colleagues to make evidence-informed decisions that enhance student success and institutional performance.

Your work will influence strategic planning, curriculum development, and key initiatives such as our Access and Participation Plan (APP), future Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) submissions, and progress towards our wider Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) goals. If you thrive in a data-driven environment and want to make a tangible difference to student outcomes, this is the role for you.

• Experienced in managing and interpreting large, complex data sets.
• Skilled in data stewardship, integration, and dashboard development, with strong knowledge of HE data sources (HESA, OfS, league tables).
• Proficient in tools such as Tableau, Power
  
  BI, R, SPSS, and ideally Microsoft SQL.
• Knowledgeable about regulatory requirements, GDPR, and sector policy in a higher education context.
• A confident communicator and collaborator, able to influence and support colleagues across academic and professional services teams.

You’ll be innovative in your approach to data, inclusive in your engagement with diverse stakeholders, enterprising in identifying opportunities for improvement, and ambitious in driving excellence across Kingston’s initiatives.

This role sits within the Data Insights Department in Corporate Services, reporting to the Head of Institutional Performance. The Data Insight team provides critical oversight and analysis to support Kingston University’s strategic aims across student outcomes and student experience, with remits spanning both internal and external performance and compliance data.

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team that values collaboration, continuous learning, and evidence-based decision-making. Together, we contribute to Kingston’s mission to enhance students’ life chances, support staff’s ambitions and strengthen the University’s impact on our locality, industry, policy and the professions to enable a sustainable future socially, economically and environmentally.

This is a full time, permanent position with a starting salary of £45,025 per annum.

Interviews are expected to be held in person on 19 January 2026.

For informal enquiries, please contact Annie Yonkers, Head of Institutional Performance