Head of Data and Insights

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Data & Insights to join our team based in Gilwell Park, Chingford, London. We will offer you a competitive salary of £75,000 - £80,000 per annum**. **We offer hybid working with office attendance required once a week depending on location.

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

**The Head of Data & Insights Role**:
This is an incredibly exciting new role helping to support our digital transformation by helping us make a step-change in the way we use data and insights across the organisation. You will be helping to establish best practices and driving change, and working on some really exciting projects.

You need to be a confident and experienced manager already as this is a senior leadership role in the organisation. You will be championing data and insights and bringing about lasting change in a national, historical movement.

This role is fundamental in helping to deliver a key part of our transformation strategy across the whole of Scouting. The role has got massive scale with the potential to have an impact on hundreds of thousands of Scout volunteers. You will also have a wide impact on the staff team, as you bring in new ways of working and excellence around data and insights. As well as this you will be a key manager in the transformation team, and will play a part in shaping and developing our growing team of 30+ people.

**Key responsibilities as our Head of Data & Insights**:

- Lead the development and implementation of the overall data and insight vision and strategy to gain buy-in, support and investment in data and insight
- Be an advocate for the appropriate use of data and insight to support the organisational objectives
- Provide leadership and expertise in the design of new data, research and insight processes, systems, and approaches
- Lead, recruit, retain and develop a diverse team of data and insight specialists
- Build capability to align Scouts’ data with national datasets to deliver insights on how member outcomes compare with population wide data
- Champion the use of tools or services such as data visualisation, dashboards
- Optimise impact measurement by aligning to established data measurement frameworks
- Drive and oversee provision of master data management and data warehousing initiatives
- Ensure the effective delivery of business intelligence, analytics, and insights pipelines, moving to a predictive analytics model

**What we are looking for in our Head of Data & Insights**:

- Demonstrable ability to design, lead and implement successful data and insight initiatives and complex change within a complex multi-stakeholder environment
- Open, confident, and collegiate, able to both challenge constructively and to receive challenge and feedback
- An effective and assertive leader, coach, and mentor
- Proven ability to translate data and information into actionable insights tailored for stakeholder interests
- Ability to build strategic collaborative relationships and partnerships across areas of responsibility
- Ability to take a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to ensure appropriate decisions are taken
- Knowledge of data insight, architecture, analysis, research and governance best-practice, methodologies, tools, and frameworks
- Experience of introducing and growing data and insight capability

**What we can offer you as our Head of Data & Insights**:

- 25 days holiday and going up to 28 days after 2 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service
- Additional holidays between Christmas & New Year
- Life Assurance
- Simply Health Scheme
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Free car parking

**We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer**
- Up to four personal days paid leave a year
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Childcare Vouchers
- Flexible working hours
- Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
- Study and volunteer leave

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.Strictly no agencies.