Data Assistant

**Havelock Academy**
North East Lincolnshire£25,992 per year

**Job type**:

Part Time, Permanent**Start date**:

NJC 8 FTE £25,992 per annum, £18,511.47 per annum pro rata / Access to Local Government Pension Scheme31 July 2025**Job overview**:
**David Ross Education Trust is now recruiting for a Data Assistant**.

One of the great goals for anyone working in Education is improving children’s outcomes. Nothing sums this up more than the exciting day each August when students have put their all into their studies and wanted to show their very best during their examinations. Collecting those results in August is a collective effort involving everyone in the academy, the students and their families and friends.

The David Ross Education Trust is now recruiting for a Data Assistant who will join our wonderful team based at Havelock Academy in Grimsby. Becoming part of the Havelock family while also having the wealth of support from the central IT & Data Team, we want someone to join us who will be vocal, challenge our thinking and ensure the exams processes and procedures are well run and managed.
You can find out all about the Central IT & Data Team by watching
our three minute introduction video here.You will want to be able to notice everything our students do well and celebrate them, acknowledging with them their achievements using warm language to make them feel excellent and to make them feel seen.We are looking for someone who is passionate and has a clear professional drive to improve the outcomes and life chances of each and every student they work alongside. Someone who can stand proud on each and every results day knowing they have been a critical and fundamental part of hundreds of children’s futures.

**_ About the role_**

You will work alongside the Central IT & Data Team as well as providing support to an onsite Exams Officer.

This position is part-time and open-ended (30 hours per week, working days Monday - Friday), working 39 weeks per annum term-time only.

For further details, please review the accompanying Job Description and Person Specification.
Please direct informal enquires to Ellis Jacklin, IT & Data Director at

**_ Salary & Benefits_**
- NJC 8 FTE £25,992 per annum, £18,511.47 per annum pro rata
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme
- Regional networks of Trust colleagues and access to key leaders in Education
- Commitment to employee Health and Wellbeing including dedicated Employee Assistance Programme
- Awards and Recognition Scheme
- Flexible working patterns
- Benefits Platform
- holiday discounts
- cinema tickets
- restaurant booking discounts
- Cycle to Work Scheme

**_ Who we are looking for_**
- Educated to GCSE-level or equivalent, including English and Mathematics.
- A skilled user of Microsoft Office, with the ability to produce, create and edit documents using Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Knowledge and understanding of awarding organisations and the regulatory framework for administering examinations.
- Experience of working in a school and/or provision of administrative services.
- Ability to use initiative to identify issues, problems or concerns and to know when to refer onwards.
- Experience of organising meetings.
- Knowledge and understanding of MIS Systems, Bromcom.
- Experience in the provision of information and communicating with academy staff, parents, carers, pupils and external examination boards on examination issues.
- Experience in an examination role with excellent communication skills at a range of levels.
- Competent and able to exercise discretion, maintain confidentiality and follow multi-step instructions.
- Proven experience in maintaining accurate records and the safe storage of confidential information.
- Highly organised and efficient and able to work to tight deadlines, often under pressure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to relate well to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Able work under your own initiative and deal with demands of a geographically dispersed team.
- Knowledge and use of relevant data management information systems relevant to DfE, OFQUAL and Ofsted and performance measures.
- Be flexible and resilient in response to a changing educational environment.

**_ About The David Ross Education Trust_**

The David Ross Education Trust's mission is to give every child attending one of our schools a world-class education.

We broaden the horizons of young people by inspiring students to become their confident, academic best via an education that creates academically gifted, confident, well-rounded young people in the classroom, in the workplace and in their communities.

Whatever your role you will contribute towards creating a rich and exciting learning environment that also offers our students an unrivalled package of sporting and cultural enrichment.

Our aim is to be the country’s top-performing Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). Recognised as a nationwide system leader, the Trust runs