Data Manager (Careers & Student Success)

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About us:

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society. King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

King's Careers & Employability provides robust, whole student lifecycle provision supporting all students and research staff to develop the knowledge, skills, and experiences to successfully navigate their lives and careers after university.

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King's students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King's faculties to do so.

About the role:

The Data Manager (Careers & Student Success) will sit within King's Careers & Employability in the Student Success division. This post is a key role focussed on taking an institution-wide approach to developing evidence-based analysis, monitoring, and enhancement of King's careers and transition activities. The role will provide the university important insights through the analysis of key data sets, including Graduate Outcomes Survey and careers registration. This analysis will feed into regulatory and statutory commitments, including the Access & Participation Plan (APP) and the Teaching Excellence & Student Outcomes Framework (TEF).

The postholder will also be the institutional lead for the Graduate Outcomes Survey and other careers data, and therefore, be responsible for making the statutory returns to HESA for the Graduate Outcomes Survey by building and improving the return process. They will be required to liaise with colleagues in Strategy, Planning & Analytics and Data Governance, responding to data requests and providing specialist advice when required.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to take responsibility over a key data activity within the university to support student and graduate success.

We encourage applications from candidates who have data experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

This is a full time position (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 20th September 2026.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in data analysis. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education or professional qualifications in a related discipline such as Data Science, Maths, Statistics or Computer Science.
2. Confident in data analysis, including handling large data sets using relevant software, such as Power BI, Tableau, Python, SQL, SSRS, R, Stata, SPSS, or Excel
3. Able to extract, transform and combine data from a range of sources.
4. Able to deploy a range of techniques to analyse, interpret and solve problems using data
5. Able to visualise data to convey the outcome of analysis
6. Able to communicate and translate the outcome of analysis and complex technical requirements in writing and verbally for non-specialist audiences
7. Experience of working with a range of different types and sources of data
8. Attention to detail, accuracy and completeness
9. Ability to manage own workload with minimal supervision

Desirable criteria

1. Postgraduate degree or qualifications in statistics, analytics, or a related field and/or relevant experience.
2. Knowledge of Higher Education
3. Experience of managing/leading projects

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our 'How we Recruit' pages.

Interviews are due to be held in August.