Data Manager

Job Title: Data Manager

Location: Cambridge

Salary: Competitive salary dependent on qualifications / experience

Job type: Full Time

About us:

St Faith’s is a co-educational independent day school for girls and boys aged 4-13 years and is a member of IAPS. Our distinguished heritage dating back to 1884, gives St Faith’s deep roots upon which we thrive. Curriculum innovation and a focus on the future – recently manifested in Engineering, Computing and Sustainability lies at the heart of our school. St Faith’s pupils are renowned for being confident, socially aware and having excellent manners. These attributes, combined with creative intellectual curiosity, notable academic achievement and highly developed emotional intelligence, provide an excellent educational foundation at a crucially important formative age.

The Role:

Reporting to the Director of Teaching and Learning, and working closely with the IT Manager, the Data Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of data collection, analysis, and reporting. The role involves working with multiple stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely data management, analysis, and reporting to support decision-making processes and improve overall school performance.

We are a school that uses Microsoft as its ecosystem; M365 experience (including Power BI) and working in an educational setting is preferable. The Data Manager plays a critical role in ensuring accurate and timely data management, analysis, and reporting to support the school’s overall performance. The successful candidate will have a strong background in data management and analysis, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with stakeholders across the school.

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate the integration and ongoing development of relevant data, processes and procedures into the School’s existing information management infrastructure (systems include but are not limited to: SIMS and SharePoint).
• Act as key liaison between academic staff and the School’s IT Department to facilitate the above.
• Manage all aspects of data collection, analysis, and reporting for the school.
• Conduct data analysis and interpretation to support decision-making processes, including the provision and development of business intelligence services, data models, custom reports, data visualisations and dashboards.
• Analyse pupil performance data, demographic data, and other relevant data to identify trends and make recommendations for improvement and intervention.
• Make recommendations to inform decision-making and improve pupil performance specifically focusing on producing data, reports and analysis for attainment and progress, behaviour and attendance, self-evaluation and staff performance management and professional development.
• Assist with critical updates of the academic timetables throughout the year for example, setting and staff and pupil changes.
• Create, manage and support the data input and record keeping of staff and student data through the provision of custom reports and fields in the MIS.
• Manage teaching and timetabling information and migration of existing records to new year groups.
• Manage the annual rollover process, in conjunction with the IT Manager.
• Manage the production of statutory returns to Department of Education (DfE), Independent Schools Council (ISC) and Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), as well as other bodies.

Benefits:

• Membership of a Standard Life defined contribution pension scheme
• Lunch provided gratis in term time.
• Membership of Medicash Health Care Cash Plan with Perks at Work.
• Cycle purchase scheme.
• Membership of The Leys sports facilities.
• Support for professional development
• A Death in Service benefit
• Free Parking

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