Admissions Data and Reporting Manager

The Data and Reporting Team, based within Student Journey, is responsible for admissions data, reporting and forecasting across both undergraduate and postgraduate taught. This critical role will manage the team of four data analysts to ensure that our suite of self-service reporting and our sophisticated forecasting models support the university in making the right decisions to achieve its ambitious targets to grow and diversify its student body.

What will you be doing?

• Manage a team of data analysts. You’ll provide excellent day-to-day management of staff at different stages in their careers, investing in the development of their skills and empowering personal development.
• Setting the team’s priorities. The team works within an Agile Scrum framework, so you’ll be acting as Scrum Master. Whether it’s servicing ad-hoc data requests, developing new reporting or making improvements to our forecasting models, you’ll need to set the team’s priorities and ensure we deliver what the university needs at each point in the cycle.
• Provide technical reporting and forecasting expertise. The team works primarily in SQL, Python, and Excel, so you’ll need to be able to support them in overcoming complex technical challenges when working on our reporting or forecasting models.
• Support the university in meeting intake targets. You’ll need to build excellent relationships with admissions stakeholders and senior decision-makers to help them make key decisions in times of uncertainty. You won’t just be providing data; you’ll be a key partner in the room as a recognised expert in admissions strategy.
• Making complexity understandable. You’ll turn the complex world of admissions data and forecasting into easily understood, actionable information for colleagues across the institution, particularly our academic colleagues within faculties.

You should apply if

• You have a strong understanding of higher education admissions data and the admissions process.
• You’re highly confident working with large, complex relational databases.
• You’re highly numerate with a good understanding of statistics.
• You have experience of working with programming or query languages such as Python, R, SQL.
• You’re able to present complex, technical information to senior audiences to support decision-making under pressure.
• You have experience of line management.

Additional information

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 12/02/2025.

Our strategy and mission: We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision, and values. The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.