Returns, Planning and Insight Officer

Job overview

Our Directorate of Education and Training has ambitious goals for increasing student numbers, diversifying its portfolio and extending its reach. To achieve these goals, it is essential that we provide effective professional support services for our students and staff.

A vacancy has now arisen for a Returns, Planning & Insight Officer, part of a newly created Returns, Planning & Insight team within the Academic Registry department, to support the work of the Directorate in delivering insight in our education and training activities, and to lead for the Directorate and Trust in preparing statutory student returns via our validating partner institution.

The successful applicant will bring technical knowledge of databases and other data systems and business analytics platforms. They will be able to use knowledge of data query skills to provide data quality exception reporting and help colleagues in the Directorate to improve data quality.

They will provide expert input to preparations for data collections and use project management skills in the preparation of data returns in accordance with changing statutory reporting requirements.

The post holder will support the design and develop Power BI dashboards to support strategic and management decision-making in the context of the institution’s integrated planning framework, with a particular emphasis on insights from data about applicants and students.

Main duties of the job

• Assist with the delivery of regulatory reporting to our University Partners/ Office for Students (OfS), such as HESA and HESES, providing support in data queries, data cleansing and data production.
• Work with senior colleagues to understand and address key aspects of institutional performance, for example widening access, equalities, student attendance and retention.
• To assist with producing data for reporting dashboards to our Commissioners, NHS England (NHSE) and to Internal Boards within the Trust.
• To assist with the management and development of a suite of validation and exception reports, using SQL and Power BI, which will ensure that data quality is optimal at key points during the academic year.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.