Head of Estates Digital Information and Insight

University of Birmingham - Estates

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606

Role Summary

The Head of Estates Digital Information and Insight provides strategic leadership for the data managed in the Estates digital systems, including data integration and analytical insight, ensuring estate, space, asset and cost information is structured, accurate, connected and actively used to inform institutional strategy, investment and performance.

A core focus of the role is the integration, governance and effective use of Estates data, ensuring consistency and reliability across systems to support capital planning, space efficiency, sustainability, investment appraisal and compliance. The post holder will design and deliver high-quality reporting, dashboards, forecasting and scenario modelling to support strategic and operational delivery. The role also includes responsibility for managing the Estates component of the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) process and overseeing the submission of benchmarking data for the External Management Record.

Main Duties

Estates Analytics, Insight and Reporting

• Design and deliver Estates-focused analytical reports, dashboards and insight to support operational and strategic decision-making, including forecasting and scenario modelling to assess the impact of changes in estate, space, cost and utilisation variables.
• Lead estate benchmarking, analysis and external returns, ensuring accuracy, consistency and strategic value, and translate complex estate and systems data into clear, actionable insight for senior Estates leaders and institutional governance bodies.

Estates Digital Systems and Information Leadership

• Lead the development, governance and effective use of Estates digital systems and information environments including the Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) and the Common Data Environment (CDE), The role holder will ensure an integrated approach to system development supporting space, property, projects, sustainability and asset management. and ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well integrated and capable of supporting high-quality reporting, analytics and decision-making.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Education and Professional Expertise

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, and/or holding a relevant professional qualification, with substantial practical experience gained through progressively senior and complex roles where formal qualifications are not held.
• Authoritative knowledge and practical application of scalable information and data management practices within complex organisational environments.
• In-depth understanding of the UK Higher Education Estates context, including operational and financial drivers, and the role of estates in supporting institutional strategy, capital investment and sustainability.
• Project management qualification is desirable.

Analytical, Digital and Technical Capability

• Highly numerate, with advanced analytical and data management skills, and a proven ability to interpret complex estates, space, asset, cost and performance data to inform strategy, investment and operational decision-making.
• Significant experience in analysing, interpreting and presenting large and complex datasets using business intelligence and visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI) with a high degree of accuracy.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Caroline Pepper [C.Pepper@bham.ac.uk]

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