Assistant Data Manager

Joseph Leckie Academy, Walsall, West Midlands, WS5 4PG

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 November 2025

• Closing date

  29 September 2025 at 1pm

• Date listed

  18 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,545.00 - £27,407.00 Annually (FTE)

Assistant Data Manager job summary

ASSISTANT DATA MANAGER

GRADE 5, SCP 9-17 (actual salary: £23,545 - £27,407)

37 hours per week, term time only (including 5 INSET days)

PERMANENT

Start date: 1st November 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter*

Your data, analysis and reporting skills are important to us. If you love working with detailed student data and working out how to best apply systems in a large, comprehensive setting then this could be the role for you. Our dynamic data team are looking to grow and for the right individual to support and develop them in this.

Are you confident with MIS systems? Do you love turning complex data into clear insights? Are pivot tables your happy place? If you’re organised, analytical, and ready for a challenge, you could be the data dynamo we’re looking for.

Main Duties:

• To support the management and maintenance of our Arbor MIS
• To manage the collection and analysis of student assessment data
• To help produce reports that drive decisions and support student progress
• To ensure data accuracy, providing timely, and useful intervention support to staff
• To play a pivotal role in the data team during examinations, census and other DfE data collection points

You’ll need:

• Confidence in using school MIS systems, preferably Arbor (or keen to develop your skills with it)
• A good working knowledge of Excel and a keenness to develop further skills
• To be organised, methodical, and enjoy problem-solving
• To be able to work independently and collaborate effectively with colleagues
• A keen eye for detail and a passion for working with data
• To be confident, organised, and approachable
• Confidence to handle data queries with professionalism and a smile
• Good interpersonal skills that can be adaptable to use with the public
• To enjoy working in a school environment with a range of stakeholders from students to governors

Experience in a school data role is ideal—but if you’re data-savvy and eager to learn, we’ll provide training. We’re looking for someone who enjoys the challenge of working with data systems that can really make an impact!

Joseph Leckie Academy is a vibrant, exciting and innovative mixed 11-18 Academy with an overall positive progress score every year since 2017 and within the top 3 non-selective schools in Walsall every year since 2017. With our excellent results, being graded as ‘Good’ across all areas by Ofsted (October 2021) and our continual desire and drive to keep moving forward, this is an exciting time for you to join our team.

We offer a highly supportive environment and are committed to ensuring outstanding teaching, behaviour, progress and achievement. Ofsted commented that “Staff are proud to work in our Academy.” They also noted that: “Pupils are proud of their school. Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) thrive. They receive strong support. Pupils with SEND speak highly of this strong support. They say, ‘support staff know us well.”

This post represents a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to make a real difference to our drive to continue to raise standards of education in the Academy. If you believe that you have the skills and abilities to take on this role, we would love to hear from you.

We can offer you: -

• Friendly and supportive staff across the Academy
• A highly experienced Extended Senior Leadership Ream for support and advice
• Excellent support and professional development opportunities including opportunities to undertake our own in-house CPD programmes.
• A well established and supportive Induction programme for all staff at all levels.

The opportunity to work with a highly supportive, well-established, dedicated and visible Leadership Team

• Excellent resources, programs and technology to support learning
• A high focus on staff well-being with staff social events, staff sports, well-being counsellor, Academy Nurse, well-being co-ordinator for staff, staff breakfasts, employee assistance programme and much more…
• A large and expanding Academy at the forefront of change and growth, with high standards and an ambitious desire to better the lives of our students and impact further on our wider community.

Join our Academy at an exciting time of development and growth for our Trust. You can make a real difference!

Application process:

Please see the attached job description and person specification and address this in your application and supporting statement.

Joseph Leckie Academy is an equal opportunities employer and fully committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students and candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

We welcome visits to the Academy, please contact Anna Morgan to arrange for a visit.

Closing date for applications: Monday 29th September by 12 noon

Please send completed applications to Anna Morgan. recruitment@josephleckieacademy.co.uk

Joseph Leckie Academy

Walstead Road West, Walsall, WS5 4PG

Tel: 01922 721071 Fax: 01922 641497

Email: a.morgan@josephleckieacademy.co.uk

Principal: Mr Andrew McNaughton

CEO: Mr James Ludlow

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Joseph Leckie Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1520 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Joseph Leckie Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/joseph-leckie-academy

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