Jisc is looking for a Director of Data infrastructure and Statistics to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is Hybrid with a blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. In return, you will receive a competitive salary from £81,500 per annum negotiable depending on experience.
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sector.
About the Director of Data infrastructure and Statistics role:
This is an exciting time to be the voice of HESA data and lead our official statistics. This role will call on you to be Public speaker, content publisher and data commentator, whilst you bridge the gap between the data and our customers, making our data easy to access, understand and use. You will be key in transforming our outputs through investment programmes (‘Data Publication Modernisation' which you will lead, and ensure the HESA website presents headlines, outputs, coding manuals and other artefacts with user experience in mind).
Responsibilities will include:
- Champion the use of statistical information across the HE sector, to support decision-making processes.
- Expert at bridging the gap between our data and our target audience – our audience being time poor and not necessarily proficient in our specialist language.
- Represent Jisc and HESA in a range of external groups and forums, acting as an effective ambassador for Jisc.
- Manage HESA output product lifecycle – leading the creation and delivery of product roadmaps.
- Ensure the combined needs of Jisc and our various statutory customers are met (government, funding and regulatory bodies), as they relate to our statistical and other data outputs and uses.
- Manage the staff of the Data Infrastructure and Statistics group: conducts/oversees appraisals, identifies training needs, delegates work, and identifies and addresses any personnel issues.
Key Skills and Experience:
- Ability to lead world class official statistics and communicating their value to our audience.
- Able to inspire and motivate internal team to deliver excellent output products for members
- Brilliant communication skills – able to bridge the gap between data and user needs. Able to deliver value and insight personally, and to convey what the data is saying through presentation and written artefacts.
- Understanding of the role of statistics and data in helping shape policy and delivering value for customers.
- Ability to undertake ‘Head of profession' role for official statistics, full understanding of and experience in developing high-quality UK national official statistics outputs and compliance.
- Ability to create a customer focussed strategy and innovate to develop existing and new data-based products and services with an understanding of the future needs and demands of the sector.
Our benefits:
- Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
- 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Generous flexible pension schemes
- Protection benefit – life cover
- Annual Jisc performance award
- A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
- A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
- Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
- Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
- The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
- Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech – spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
If you have the skills and experience, we require for this role and are looking for a new challenge then please click ‘apply' today to be forwarded to our online recruitment portal and become our new Director of Data infrastructure and Statistics.