Senior Data Analyst
Application Deadline: 9 April 2025
Department: Data
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: Manchester
Reporting To: Head of Data
Compensation: £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.
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.
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.
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