The directorates activities include strategy formation and deployment, academic and financial planning, business intelligence, student management information, statutory assurance, performance, benchmarking, and league tables analysis.
Responsibilities
The Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst role supports activities relating to statutory assurance and league table submissions and analysis. The specific responsibilities include analysing and validating the accuracy of key statutory returns, the optimisation and submission of information to league tables and enhancing key processes through automation. The post-holder will work in close collaboration with the broader SPPU team, supporting the wider operations of the directorate including the production of dashboards on the university’s Tableau platform to support business intelligence.
Person Specification
Candidates will have good knowledge of how statutory Higher Education returns are used for compliance and reputational purposes, including their use in league tables. You will be highly numerate with experience of analysing a range of different types of data (student / staff / financial) and influencing organisational decision making. You will have experience of using different technological platforms and systems to manipulate and analyse large, complex datasets as well as knowledge of designing and creating data visualisations and dashboards.
Additional Information
Closing date for applications: 02 August 2026 at 11:59pm
The selection process will involve an interview and an assessment (data analysis using Excel). Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.
City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.
