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.

The Data Governance and Security team develops, maintains, and supports system and process security, data governance, data protection compliance, regulatory reporting, and external and internal audit requirements. The team ensures that strategies and procedures in relation to these areas are fit for purpose and is responsible for providing a ‘gold source’ of all student and course information data to ensure best practice.

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 Student Data Reporting Officer role provides essential support to the Reporting team in Data Governance & Security. They will provide operational support for both our external reporting obligations and for the provision of internal student data reports. Providing end-to-end administrative support in triaging requests for reports and managing cyclic reporting requirements, they will be focused on providing insights and analysis for regular requests themed around programme accreditation, student surveys, student communications, and student characteristics.

They will provide support to colleagues and create and continuously adapt processes to improve efficiency of their own area, and within the wider team.

They will also support Education & Students and IT projects at an appropriate level in relation to data held on student record management systems.

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to gain experience in a technical data role, and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in data analysis. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in data visualisation, SQL and Python.

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.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

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 data roles within the public sector, or student-related roles in higher education. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
2. Able to use one or more business intelligence/analysis tools and/or associated languages for example Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, SSRS, R, DAX, Python, M, Excel, VBA.
3. Ability to conduct accurate and independent research to deliver set objectives
4. Ability to gather and manipulate data so that it can be interpreted by others.
5. Take responsibility for own decision making, resolve any problems that arise, consulting with others where required
6. Ability to establish and proactively build professional working relationships with external and internal stakeholders
7. Sound knowledge of the sensitive nature of personal data, and the importance of compliance with Data Protection Legislation.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience working within the Higher Education sector
2. Knowledge of and previous experience working with student record management systems
3. Experience writing PL/SQL or T-SQL in a work context
4. Experience creating Power BI report

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.