Data Manager

Harris Boys’ Academy is looking for an experienced data manager to lead all aspects of Data Collection, Analysis, Evaluation, Statutory Compliance, Accuracy and Dissemination to ensure accurate planning of Teaching & Learning & Assessment of Pupil Progress.

About Us

Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich opened in September 2009 and is part of the Outstanding Harris Federation. Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible, and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy. The academy’s specialisms are Enterprise and Sport with a ‘can-do’ ethos of always improving upon your personal best. The Academy will accommodate 750 boys when full. Harris Boys' benefits from a state-of-the-art purpose-built building with the very latest facilities and equipment. The Academy offers a co-educational Post 16 with the nearby Harris Girls' Academy, together comprising capacity for 400 Sixth Formers. Harris Boys was judged to be an outstanding school by Ofsted in December 2011.

Academy Ethos

We encourage our students to be critical thinkers and promote these skills throughout the curriculum. A student at Harris Boys' Academy will learn how to engage critically with foreign affairs, religion and society, issues of citizenship and the media, so they acquire the skills, and recognise the value of, thinking for yourself and thinking in a well-reasoned manner.

“We are very lucky to have an amazing staff team who work together, and what you get from this is an inertia of this body of professionals who are striving to be the very best they can be. It is down to these two points – staff who are on board, who want to change futures and want to be better at what they do, and students who buy into this idea of ‘I’m at school because I can make myself a better person and I can flourish in life.’ When you have these two points together, which is what we have worked very hard to obtain, then you can make wonderful things happen. And that’s shown through our outcomes and is also shown through if you’ve ever had a chance to speak to the boys and the parents of this school community.” Peter Groves, Principal

Main Areas of Responsibility

Your role will include:

• The vision and strategic direction of using data effectively, reliably and to improve the operating performance of the academy
• To design and implement new operating, collection and design systems to meet new accountability measures
• To ensure we are always OFSTED ready at every point in the Academy year and that data presented demonstrates positive progress
• To design, implement and evaluate the Academy timetable on an annual basis
• To maintain all aspects of the timetable including in year changes, intervention timetables, assign and maintain teachers PPA, manage student set changes and communicate changes to parents
• Provide statistical analysis of student attendance 
• Provide teaching staff with data for parent's evenings
• To lead on the Academy options system and maintain an effective system that produces live data during the options process
• Decision maker on all class/room/student/allocations for maintaining the timetable
• Report to governors on a termly basis on the Academy’s strategic use of data
• Design & Lead on all data analysis templates for all live data in the Academy that enable staff to identify key trends and gaps
• Lead on all tracking in the Academy which includes Pupil Premium Tracker, SMSC Tracker, Trip Tracker, CPD Tracker and Achievement trackers. You will also oversee the behaviour management system to ensure it reports what the academy needs it to report. These will be designed, monitored and implemented by the executive data lead
• Lead on all parental reporting, access and security via online reporting
• To lead, monitor and evaluate training needs for the whole academy and to produce a termly gap analysis for the Principal and governing body
• To lead a monthly data forum with staff on how we can develop the use of data in the academy
• To lead on completing an accurate Academy census and school workforce return
• To lead on all Academy progress reports for parents ensuring they are clear and directly linked to Bromcom.
• To provide staff inset training on using data at regular intervals during the academy year
• To be the direct data line manager for all Directors and SLT regarding all data aspects within the Academy.
• To be the data expert for ALL staff in the academy
• To liaise with Federation IT and communicate all software upgrades within the Academy, providing training if required
• To oversee the admissions process and ensure that all data is accurate and available to staff
• To oversee Free School Meals provision
• To maintain data in additional systems including SISRA and Parent Pay
• To share best practice with any other Harris Academy that requests to see our best practice and to provide consultancy to federation or individual Academies
• To develop and lead the maintenance of an access data base that links to progress, which in turn generates seating plans that are easy to create by staff
• All access data base applications such as seating plans, Pupil premium trackers and SMSC trackers

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• 5A*-C including English & Maths
• 3 A-Levels at C grade or above
• Prior experience of working in an educational setting
• At least 2 years' experience in a similar role
• Evidence of relevant qualifications & further training
• Sound knowledge of Management information systems (Bromcom Knowledge preferable)
• Experience of working under pressure and meeting deadlines
• Experience of working on one’s own initiative and to work within a team
• Experience of working flexibly in response to changing situations
• Ability to demonstrate advanced and innovative Excel skills
• An in depth understanding and design capability of Excel, Power BI and Access data bases
• Excellent numeracy, literacy, organisational and communication skills

Safeguarding Notice

The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Before applying, please review our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders.

Equal Opportunities

The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

As a provider of employment and education, we value the diversity of our staff and students, and all our staff are equally valued and respected. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment for our students and staff.