Senior Data Officer

King's College London - Social Mobility & Widening Participation

About us:

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education.

About the role:

The Senior Data Officer is a vital member of What Works, the research and evaluation team of Social Mobility & Widening Participation. Our team tests what works in widening participation and student success, attempting to drive evidence-based change which improves the outcomes of underrepresented students.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work in social mobility, and who wish to use their skills and expertise in data analysis. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in evidencing impact in a higher education setting.

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct analysis and data visualisation on performance against targets to widen participation to university and ensure success for all students.
• Analyse key institutional datasets, drawing out relevant trends and patterns, and produce accessible presentations, blogs and reports on findings.
• Complete advanced statistical analysis (e.g. power calculations, regression analysis) as needed to evaluate team projects and identify the focus for future projects.
• Become familiar with a range of internal and comparative data sources, assessing limitations of different data sets.
• Provide training, advice and guidance on robust data analysis and reporting (e.g. on choosing outcomes measures, visualising findings and using statistical software).

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed-term contract until the 6th October 2026.

About you:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in any role which included data analysis. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training
• Experience of undertaking and completing projects which require high levels of administrative and organisational skill, delivering project aims and overcoming challenges.
• Ability to communicate complicated and specialist information orally and in writing in an engaging and accessible way. Experience of drafting written material for a wide variety of audiences, particularly research reports and data visualisation.
• Ability to decide own pattern of work and manage own workload and resources, keeping others updated on progress. Confident conducting and reviewing data analysis and statistical tests with relevant software (such as Power BI, R, Stata or SPSS)
• Ability to manipulate data so that it can be interpreted by yourself and others, including the ability to critically evaluate the strength of statistical analysis, particularly its reliability, quality and applicability to context.
• Experience of working with a range of different, large and/or complex data sources.
• Ability to work with others to deliver project aims and overcome challenges
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing data sets (e.g. Excel, STATA, R)

Desirable criteria

• Experience using Student Information System e.g. SITS
• Understanding of the widening participation agenda and/or the role of higher education in social mobility
• Knowledge of the statistical package R and how to clean and quality assure R code would be a particular advantage.