Head of Data and Analytics

The Head of Data and Analytics leads, manages and oversees the charity’s data operations and strategy. This includes leading the Data team of Analysts and Engineers along with all project and programme activities and design and roadmap implementation encompassing all people, process, and technology changes. Head of Data & Analytics – Permanent – Full time Our offer to you We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work-life balance, and be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive: Competitive salary and pension scheme 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) – increasing to 38 days over 5 years Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme Discounts – access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays, and shopping About Us This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,577 employees and over 33,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training, and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them. There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers. This is an exciting time of transformation with the opportunity to lead and mature the charity’s data maturity by leading a new data strategy. Job Summary The Head of Data and Analytics leads, manages and oversees the charity’s data operations and strategy. This includes leading the Data team of Analysts and Engineers along with all project and programme activities and design and roadmap implementation encompassing all people, process, and technology changes. Recognised as a thought leader and innovator, they play a crucial part in improving the charity’s impact by ensuring that data is collected, analysed, and used effectively to drive decision-making, enhance the operation, and provide measurable outcomes driving up data maturity. They lead on the design, build, and operation of all data platform technologies and reporting and analytics tools to support the strategy. They seek out and lead initiatives to provide effective governance of data to ensure optimum quality of data and compliance with best practice principles and standards through technical controls and influencing stakeholders of all levels. About You To be successful in this role, you will have architected and delivered a successful data strategy and led and matured a data team at a similar scale organisation. You will have experience of working with a mix of legacy and cloud platforms, ideally with Microsoft technologies such as Power BI, Fabric, and Purview. You will have a strong track record in influencing senior stakeholders, leading recommendations for investment, and leading change programmes. You will be an experienced leader with extensive people management experience, inclusive of working across matrix-managed teams and sourcing and management of third-party specialist partners. About the Role Evangelise, lead, design, and build the data strategy in line with the charity’s mission and goals to modernise business intelligence, influencing senior stakeholders to support investment and data project/programme sequencing decisions. Drive up data capability and improve maturity by leading targeted improvement programmes and working groups. Foster a data-driven culture by providing training and guidance to staff on data-related topics. Implement and govern data principles and standards through the establishment and leadership of boards and promoting and gaining commitment and buy-in from senior stakeholders. Lead a team of data engineers to manage all data platforms, carry out DBA activities, and implement and monitor all ETL routines in a routine and predictable manner. Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply) If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. St John Ambulance is committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers, and Women’s groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity, and inclusion. Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy. #J-18808-Ljbffr