King's College London

About us:

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

​Within the Social Mobility & Widening Participation Department we believe all young people should be able to have high expectations for their future. This means equal access to education and career opportunities. We run programmes that aim to empower young people from under-represented backgrounds to access and succeed at university.

​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. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so.

About the role:

The ​Senior Data Officer​ is a vital member of What Works, the research and evaluation team of Social Mobility & Widening Participation. Out 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:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. 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
2. ​Experience of undertaking and completing projects which require high levels of administrative and organisational skill, delivering project aims and overcoming challenges.
3. 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.
4. 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)
5. 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.
6. Experience of working with a range of different, large and/or complex data sources.
7. Ability to work with others to deliver project aims and overcome challenges
8. ​Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing data sets (e.g. Excel, STATA, R)

Desirable criteria

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

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are provisionally due to be held on 6th October.