Senior Data Analyst

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Senior Data Analyst

Application Deadline: 9 April 2025

Department: Data

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Birmingham

Reporting To: Head of Data

Compensation: GBP 39,655 / year

Description

Do you have experience of working with qualitative data, undertaking analysis and providing reports to senior stakeholders?

We're looking for a strong conceptual thinker to join the Data team as Senior Data Analyst, on a 12-month fixed term contract, to cover a period of maternity leave.

As Senior Data Analyst, you'll play a key role in bolstering the analytical and data visualisation capacity, taking a lead role with our data warehouse provisions at Ambition Institute. You'll be responsible for developing, running and quality assuring regular data analysis and reporting that will be used by Ambition's leadership operational teams and the Department for Education.

You'll become the expert on operational programme data, providing a consultative approach across the organisation. This is a great opportunity to work with stakeholders across Ambition Institute and to provide leadership and delivery teams with data driven insights that enables those teams to make effective decisions on Programme and process improvements.

Who are Ambition Institute?

A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time.

That's how we'll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.
• We champion every teacher and school leader's potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

We would like you to:

• Lead on developing the data warehouse, data visualisation, dashboards and regular reporting for internal customers and external customers, using advanced Power BI and SQL Lead curating data from source systems into Azure Synapse as the central source for reporting/analysis.
• Produce regular reporting for senior stakeholders as part of our management of contracts and oversight of operational performance providing insight as well as data.
• Act as a key stakeholder, collaborate with teams across Ambition to ensure an organisational wide lens is taken to data tracking, and improving data consistency across data systems.
• Take on a senior role in the cross-department team of data analysts, supporting on best practice, sharing expertise, harmonising approaches to data, and providing peer support.

Working in a hybrid way, you'll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Head of Data. In line with our current ways of working, you'll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days and this may be reviewed by Ambition.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

To succeed in this role you'll have a relevant degree or equivalent work experience in data analysis. You'll also demonstrate:

• Experience of working with quantitative data, undertaking analysis and providing reports to senior stakeholders including experience or understanding of data preparation, cleaning and transformation of data into clear, readable analysis
• Strong Salesforce or alternative CRM knowledge
• Experienced in Power BI, DAX and M Query
• Experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse Data Warehouse
• Ability to build relationships, work collaboratively and influence senior stakeholders.

What's in it for you....?

• Competitive annual salary
• Professional development for all staff
• 25 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down' at the end of December/beginning of January
• Employer pension contribution of 11%
• Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
• Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year's service
• Shared parental leave package
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line
• Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London
• Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

We don't expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our organisation:

• You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequality
• You have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you do
• You always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participants
• You always have a great attitude so we "can do" for all our colleagues, partners and participants
• You are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting better
• You work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspective
• You are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impact

• You want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.
• You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situation
• You enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around you
• You would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over time
• Want flexibility in how you work - splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.

Applications will be accepted for all office locations.

All applications must be received by the closing date 23:59 on 9 April 2025. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 14 April 2025.

We recognise that AI function tools (i.e. ChatGPT or other generative AI tools) are here to stay and can be helpful for applications e.g. to assist in researching for application responses and to shorten your first draft. However, we are observing a growing trend in the use of AI, and we would caution applicants against relying too heavily on such tools when drafting responses.

The pitfall of such tools is that they produce generic responses that don't showcase individuality, specific experiences or real-life examples. This usually results in applications being unsuccessful. We want to evaluate your response, and we will be looking for answers that use examples and experiences that are clearly specific to you. You are more likely to successfully demonstrate your soft skills like communication and teamwork when preparing answers to application questions yourself and this helps mitigate the unintended consequences of AI-generated responses.

If we suspect you have used AI inappropriately, the panel reviewing your application may adjust how your response is rated. For more details of what we consider to be acceptable use of AI function tools in our application process, please review our FAQs on our careers page.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and the most vulnerable in our society and, as such, we are unable to employ individuals with relevant convictions, including the following: a conviction for an offence involving violence or dishonesty, of a sexual nature or against minors, or for any other offence that is relevant to the nature of the services provided by our organisation.

For any questions or queries please review our FAQs | Ambition Institute Careers (pinpointhq.com) in the first instance. If we've not addressed your question in this section, please email us at jobs@ambition.org.uk

As an employer, we have a responsibility to prevent illegal working in the UK by ensuring that our employees have the right to work in the UK. Therefore, as part of the recruitment process to verify your eligibility you will be required to produce relevant documentation.