Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis)
Job Description
Job title: Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis)
Company: Birmingham City University
Job description: Location: Joseph Priestley Building
Salary: £36,421 to £39,591
Post Type: Full Time
Release Date: 13 February 2024
Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Tuesday 05 March 2024
Reference: 122023-761
Birmingham City University is the university for Birmingham – delivering transformational higher education to a large and diverse body of students from Birmingham, West Midlands, UK and overseas. We need to be constantly alert and responsive to the changing economic and policy environment. The post of Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis) is a key role in a team of curiosity-driven analysts, interrogating, summarising and reporting external and internal data to understand ways to achieve successful outcomes and outstanding experience for all our students. Your work will support advice to the Vice-Chancellor and his senior team on strategy and actions to improve BCU student performance and experience, and to ensure BCU is well-placed in the data-driven regulatory and competitive environment of Higher Education. You will be working closely with all members of the Planning and Performance Department, with academic staff in individual faculties and with strategy and data colleagues across a range of professional service areas.
The Planning and Performance Department is a small, friendly team where you will be supported with development opportunities. The team delivers dynamic, contextualised business insights to support academic quality assurance and enhancement, institutional strategic decision-making, business planning and continuous improvement. We work with colleagues across the University to support senior leaders in making well-informed and evidence-led decisions. Our remit includes horizon scanning and interpreting policy developments. We ensure that the University meets statutory and regulatory reporting requirements and provide guidance on compliance with conditions of registration with the Office for Students. The role of Data Analyst (Insight and Analysis) will be part of our new Data Insight and Analysis team, and is suited to data professionals, ideally with Higher Education or similar experience and provides an excellent step into a career in Higher Education planning and data analysis.
To deliver high quality outcomes for our students, we need incisive data insights and analysis. In this role, you will deliver revealing data discovery back to the business to drive change. Working within the Planning and Performance team, you will , design and undertake targeted data analysis, of internal and external datasets, to support critical business decisions and strategy development at BCU. Your work will help us drive transformative change.
Drawing on your existing data analysis and reporting skills, and rapidly learning new skills sets, products and the business requirements of HE, you will:
- Report and analyse key data sets, both internal and external, on student numbers, demographics, surveys etc.
- Analyse, predict and plan to improve League Table performance.
- Prepare of datasets, dashboards, analysis and modelling to support information being sent to the HE regulator and other external bodies.
- Undertake a wide range data analysis to drill down to root causes, evaluate efficacy of interventions and recommend solutions.
- Develop impactful dashboarding and data visualisation, drawing on data warehouse solutions.
- Provide incisive reports for decision-making committees of the University.
- Liaison with external data bodies and networks.
- Play a key role in enhancement projects around business intelligence, data quality or planning.
- Educated to degree level, preferably in a numerate subject. (E)
- Knowledge of advanced Excel for reporting, dashboarding and modelling (E)
- Experience of Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau, PowerBI (E)
- Knowledge of statutory reporting requirements in Higher Education. (D)
- Experience of effective cross-departmental working to deliver business solutions. (E)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. (E)
- Knowledge of SITS student record system. (D)
- Highly organised; ability to keep to deadlines.(E)
- Evidence of a track record of inter-departmental working in a large organisation to deliver joint projects.(D)
In return, we offer a pension and generous annual leave provision. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties. We also provide access to excellent facilities on campus, including supportive family friendly policies. Further details:
OUR VISION
Birmingham City University is growing in quality and standing, with an academic STEAM agenda at the heart of our ambitions. We are transforming the lives of students and their communities, and want outstanding people to join us in taking us on the next stage of our exciting journey.
Our students learn through doing. They are empowered throughout their educational journey, achieving significant educational gain and personal transformation.
There has never been a better time to join us. Come and be part of the next exciting stage of our journey.
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
At the heart of our 2025 Strategy is our mission is to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.
OUR STAFF COMMUNITY
Birmingham is home to a rich and diverse range of communities. Our students reflect this rich cultural mix, and we are continuing to work to make sure that this is also reflected in our broader university community.
Birmingham City University values the quality and diversity of our staff. Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we work with each other. Our core values are we create opportunity, we think differently, and we build community.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, continuously reviewing and improving our policies, practices, and procedures to ensure that we are promoting these in all aspects of our operations. We believe that by working together, combining our many different backgrounds and life experiences, we will empower each other to reach our full potential.
We hold an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.
Our University is located in one of the most culturally rich and diverse Cities in the UK, and it is our ambition to be the University for Birmingham and the surrounding region. The events of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we are committed to removing the institutional barriers that our staff and students face and improve the representation, progression and success of staff and students from all backgrounds within higher education. To demonstrate this, we have signed up to the Race Equality Charter to show our commitment.
Birmingham City University has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award in the Stonewall Index and have entered the Top 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. Meanwhile, we are Disability Confident (Committed) and are on an exciting journey to advance our University to progress through the Disability Confident scheme.
We are also a Mindful Employer, which means we are committed to supporting the mental health and well-being of our staff, and we have also signed up to the Mental Health Charter led by student mental health charity Student Minds. Furthermore, we are signed up to The Technician Commitment – a university and research institution initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Foundation – aiming to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research.
WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM
The youngest city in Europe with under-25s accounting for nearly 40% of the population, Birmingham is a city full of energy and enthusiasm and is a great place to live and work.
Based in the heart of England, the city is easily accessible by road, rail and air. Birmingham New Street station has recently undergone major redevelopment, while the city is at the heart of the high-speed rail network, HS2. HS2 will provide new rapid rail travel connecting Birmingham City Centre to London and the rest of the network from the new Curzon Street Station – adjacent to Birmingham City University’s City Centre Campus – and will be one of the most environmentally friendly stations in the world.
The city’s appetite for progression is boundless, and it has been championing innovation since the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, reflected in Birmingham City University’s new STEAMhouse building which opened in October 2022 and is home to an inter-disciplinary community of entrepreneurs, businesses, academic researchers, and students offering a wealth of support to companies of all sizes to boost growth through innovation to address commercial and societal challenges.
Birmingham is brimming with great theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham City University Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as well as beautiful historical buildings and the iconic Library of Birmingham. It also has amazing concert and sporting venues including Edgbaston Cricket ground, which Birmingham City University has a long-standing partnership with. It is also home to the Alexander Stadium, which is the stunning new home for Birmingham City University’s sport courses. The Stadium was one of the main event spaces for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022, which saw the eyes of the world on the city, and Birmingham City University staff and students played pivotal roles – including designing the official medals for winning athletes.
Birmingham’s vibrant dining scene offers something for all tastes, including Michelin star restaurants, Spiceal Street at the Bullring, the Chinese Quarter, and the famous Balti Triangle.
The city also provides a great place to shop, being home the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous home of British bling – the Jewellery Quarter, which is home to Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery.
From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the beautiful arcades and independents, to the city’s historic markets in Digbeth, the shops in Birmingham offer a plethora of choice.
underpin how we work in achieving the ambitions set out in our Strategy and Priorities, and are the principles that unite the way we work together and for our students.
Expected salary: £36421 – 39591 per year
