Educational Data Insight Officer

Location Docklands Campus Salary From £39,024 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Post Type Full Time Post Type Fixed Term Contract Length 9 months Closing Date Friday 28 February 2025 Interview Date Wednesday 12 March 2025 Reference 013S2025 Maternity Cover Hybrid University of East London We’re the University of East London (UEL) founded in 1898 and proud to change lives through education. Our goal is to advance industry 5.0 careers-first education and provide a clear path to the jobs and opportunities of the future. We’re committed to driving diversity in the 5.0 talent pipeline, working in partnership to promote talent wherever it is found and creating a balanced, inclusive, and green future. But we can't achieve this goal alone. We need forward-thinking, innovative, and curious individuals like you to join our community and help us craft our future. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of people who share your passion for creating positive change. We’re an inclusive and welcoming community that is constantly moving forward, never satisfied with the status quo. About the School / Service We are Student Services and are responsible for nurturing wellness, supporting individual needs, helping students in crisis, improving retention, and enabling positive experiences through residential life and extra-curricular activities. Working in partnership across academic schools and professional services, our teams seek to provide a network of support throughout the student journey and aim to optimise student success. The Student Services directorate is led by the Assistant Chief Operating Officer, Health Gain & Student Experience. Our department incorporates a number of professional and support teams including Student HUB, Student Conduct, Academic Tutoring, Residential Life, Student Disability and Dyslexia, Student Life, Student Money Advice and Rights Team, Student Engagement, Retention and Success and Student Wellbeing. About the Job The University of East London is committed to the Office for Students (OfS) vision to eliminate inequality of opportunity in higher education. The Access and Participation Funding (OfS regulated) encourages those who are least likely to participate in higher education to do so and improve students’ opportunities at university. The funding supports students in the areas of access, progression, and success and works to improve outcome and opportunities for our students. The role provides educational insight by monitoring and evaluating our APP work across the university. The role helps us to take a quantitative and statistical approach in analysing and demonstrating what works across the university and what the impact is for our students. The role will support us in collecting, analysing and presenting educational data, generated by the different schools across the university and the projects funded under the APP portfolio to provide assurance and monitor progress against our targets to the university and the OfS. • Experience managing and analysing complex datasets, and undertaking qualitative and quantitative analysis • Experience producing data-led reports to generate business insights (e.g. PowerBI) • Experience critically interpreting data and presenting findings to practitioners and non-expert audiences • A good understanding of the implications of evaluation methods on data collection and management About You The ideal candidate will have: • A degree in a relevant subject with a high numerical/statistical analysis component • A good understanding of issues affecting equality of opportunity or widening participation in higher education • Excellent IT proficiency, particularly in MS Office 365 and a demonstrated ability to learn and apply new statistical packages • Excellent oral and written communication, particularly the simple presentation of complex data and the production of reports • Excellent interdisciplinary skills and the ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams Benefits Package At UEL, we believe that a great role is about more than just a salary. It’s about the complete package, including our outstanding work environment and inclusive culture. We offer a genuinely competitive salary, dependent on experience (DOE), and a range of excellent benefits. You can explore our full benefits package here: https://uel.ac.uk/benefits-professional-services-positions Equal Opportunities UEL is an inclusive equal opportunities employer and are proud of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity achievements, including: zero gender pay gap, members of Stonewall and have won Athena Swan awards. We expect all employees of UEL to accept our EDI policy and will not tolerate discrimination in any form. We're a disability confident employer and value all applications. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. So, if you’d like to take your career to the next level with us here at the University of East London and are inspired by our environment and commit to success, we want you to apply today! Please note that this advert may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Further Details Job Description & Person Specification To contact the recruitment team please phone +44 20 8223 3000 x 4600 or e-mail jobs@uel.ac.uk CVs without a completed application form will not be accepted. At UEL we are committed to working together to build a community which values diversity in both our staff and student populations, is representative and inclusive, enabling all to progress and thrive.