Head of Insights

AET is one of the largest academy trusts in the country, with a network of primary, secondary and special schools spanning nearly every region in the country.

The trust is embarking on a journey from turnaround to educational excellence. A critical part of that is establishing a new insights function to support the trust to generate key analysis to influence the school improvement strategy.

As part of this, AET has committed to becoming more open source- to drive forward a spirit of system generosity in documenting their approach to school improvement at scale. This will have a national impact on the education of every child in the country.

This is a hugely exciting time to be joining the organisation, and as we pivot from turnaround mode to becoming a high-performance organisation on the pathway to sustainable excellence. This role offers a unique opportunity to join our organisation and be part of this exciting journey.

Role:

The primary purpose of this role is to deliver insights and analysis to inform AET’s strategy and practice. You will be supporting the board and the leadership team to drive improvement across the trust and deliver an excellent education for every child, every day.

Working closely with the Business Intelligence team and supporting the Director of Insights, you will design a framework to analyse and disseminate insights. Applying a thorough understanding of the trust in the wider context of education you will tell the story of the data in plain language, introduce innovative visualisation and presentation techniques to have impact across AET.

The Insights Team will have a tangible impact on the decisions taken to support the Principals of our 57 schools. Improving the quality of data insights and research validity, you will play a crucial role in our overall strategy towards educational excellence.

This is a new role in AET, and your scope will also cover supporting the Directors of Strategy and Insights to establish the new team showing impact and value for all of AET’s schools and the wider education sector.

In this role you will:

• Establish a new team in the Insights and Innovation directorate, building relationships across the organisation to ensure impact
• Lead production of analysis on AET’s data, working closely with Business Intelligence team to support the board, the senior leadership teams and AET’s family of schools better understand their absolute and relative performance
• Design a framework to effectively communicate analysis, identifying critical areas for improvement across all Directorates in AET
• Support the Technology function to ensure that data analysis and dissemination is accurate, effective and impactful
• Work with the Business Intelligence team to evaluate and inform the approach to modelling and forecasting data, guaranteeing validity and reliability
• Work with the wider Insights team to deliver ad hoc analysis of data and external sources to support AET’s mission to become more open source, bolstering AET’s voice in the education system
• Line-manage a minimum of one member of staff.

Candidate:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent (ideally with a post-graduate degree in relevant field e.g. statistics, economics) with at least 3-5 years’ experience in a data analysis role
• Experience of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets
• Experience of working in applied analysis, taking an evidence-based approach to help inform, recommend and make decisions
•  Experience designing and developing effective communication and visualisation tools, ideally using Tableau
• An understanding of the UK education system and the role of Academy Trusts
• Understand and comply with procedures and legislation relating to confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulations
• Experience of briefing senior stakeholders effectively and with impact
• Deep understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of analytical methods and different ways of presenting data
• Experience of working with statistical software and/or relational databases
• An ability to explain complex analysis in a clear and coherent way to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships across a complex organisation.

To apply, please send of a copy of your CV and a Personal Statement (max two sides of A4) to our recruitment partners, Whiton Maynard via tim@whitonmaynard.com.

Please apply as soon as possible before the closing date 12pm, Friday 15th July 2022, applications will be considered on a rolling basis.