Senior Data and Analytics Manager

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Salary: Grade 8 (£45,585 – £54,395 p.a. depending on experience)

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you committed to delivering exceptional service? Do you enjoy working with data and converting analysed output into business insight for action and data driven decision making? Do you enjoy helping to provide insights and analysis that has an immediate impact and directly informs critical decision making, guiding the University’s student recruitment activity?

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Admissions, you will work in close partnership with colleagues in Marketing, International and Outreach teams to embed a service wide approach to data analysis, insight, and reporting, developing a robust data driven approach to student recruitment. 

The University of Leeds is one of the largest and most successful recruiters of students in the sector. As the Senior Data and Analytics Manager for Student Recruitment, you will be responsible for the development, presentation, and reporting of student recruitment data, ensuring key insight and analysis is available to stakeholders to inform key decision points. This is a new role and an exciting opportunity for you to develop a responsive and visual reporting capability within admissions and Integrated Student Recruitment which will enable data driven decision making. Key to the role is a commitment to data quality and accuracy, and a talent for building good working relationships and trusted, positive partnerships. 

You will be capable of bringing a range of stakeholders together and influencing them to ensure alignment of activities to establish and meet strategic priorities. You will embed a culture of continuous improvement and will identify and implement opportunities to streamline and harmonise processes, to raise quality standards and to improve data accuracy, interpretation, and reporting capability in Integrated Student Recruitment. 

The role is a campus-based role with the ability to work remotely when appropriate. There will, on occasion, be weekend and evening on-campus work required, specifically in August. 

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – that’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!  

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Rachael McConville-Darwin, Head of Admissions (Policy, Process and Systems)

Email: [email protected]

Location:  Leeds – Main Campus
Faculty/Service:  Professional Services
School/Institute:  Admissions
Category:  Professional & Managerial
Grade: 
Grade 8
Salary: 
£45,585 to £54,395
p.a.
Post Type: 
Full Time
Contract Type:  Ongoing
Release Date:  Friday 26 January 2024
Closing Date:  Friday 09 February 2024
Reference:  PSADM1022
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