Head of Data and Insights

What skills and experience we're looking for

Desperately seeking a data geek with next-level kitten herding skills to shape our strategy. You need to be enough of a geek to understand, and be excited by data flows and hygiene, but also a skilled enough people whisperer to build the ‘botheredness’ (and competence) in everyone from teachers to trustees.

The core mission is to dramatically increase organisational data maturity, shifting us from relying on traditional practice to proactive, evidence-informed decision-making. We need a "Swiss Army knife" person who can fit in any level of the organisation to instill a deep, reflective approach to data, anticipating risks and moving beyond after the fact excuses for under performance.

Your task is to improve the quality of inference without increasing the burden of assessment upon staff. How can we know our children and ourselves better so that we can teach all children more effectively?

What the school offers its staff

The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, a 36-school primary-only multi-academy trust, has completed its physical infrastructure programme and implemented a new MIS in September 2025. With our cloud-based infrastructure finalised, we are poised for a data revolution. We are now recruiting a Head of Data and Insights to build on this solid base and lead the strategic development and operational delivery of data systems, analytics, and insights across our schools.

The core mission is to dramatically increase organisational data maturity, shifting us from relying on traditional practice to proactive, evidence-informed decision-making. We need a "Swiss Army knife" person who can fit in any level of the organisation to instill a deep, reflective approach to data, anticipating risks and moving beyond after the fact excuses for under performance.

Your first year will prioritise assessment and demographic data, focusing on strong data engineering and analytics to ensure consistency of system usage and measurement processes, while ensuring the quality of assessment remains central and avoiding a push toward greater administrative burdens on teachers.

Your task is to improve the quality of inference without increasing the burden of assessment upon staff. How can we know our children and ourselves better so that we can teach all children more effectively?

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.