Data Manager
Longsands Academy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1LQ10 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
27 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,270.00 - £39,680.00 Annually (Actual) £36,338 - £42,075 Annually (FTE)
Data Manager job summary
Are you skilled in data management and passionate about education? Longsands Academy is seeking a dedicated Data Manager to oversee our MIS and associated systems. This role is crucial for ensuring timely and accurate reporting of assessment data, driving improvements in student attainment and progress through effective data analysis.
Your Role:
- Data Management Expert: You excel at managing academy data and curriculum management information systems, ensuring they run smoothly and efficiently.
- Performance Driver: You provide key data to the Senior Leadership Team and staff, helping to inform and drive performance improvements across the academy.
- Analytical Thinker: You produce detailed reports and analyse data trends to support informed decision-making.
- Educator and Trainer: You coordinate and train staff on data understanding and MIS usage, promoting effective use of management information systems.
- System Supporter: You support the effective use of management information systems throughout the academy, ensuring they are utilized to their full potential.
- Results Manager: You manage the importing of results and database information from various systems, maintaining comprehensive and accurate data.
- Collaborative Partner: You work closely with the Exams Officer to support the management of results and analysis processes.
- Detail-Oriented: You ensure all pupil personal and contact data is accurate and up to date, maintaining high standards of data integrity.
- MIS Proficient: You have up-to-date knowledge of school management information systems (MIS) and a comprehensive understanding of databases and spreadsheet software.
- Experienced Professional: You bring experience from a similar role, preferably within an academy setting, demonstrating your ability to adapt and excel in educational environments.
- Analytical Expert: You possess the ability to produce meaningful reports, conduct detailed analysis, and identify data trends to support informed decision-making.
Longsands Academy is an 11-18 fully-inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and the surrounding area. With around 1750 students, including 250 in the Sixth Form, we pride ourselves on our inclusive and aspirational approach. We support students preparing for Oxbridge and those with special educational needs. Our academy has a strong track record of supporting staff through excellent mentoring, a supportive culture, and numerous opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.
Why Astrea Academy Trust?We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, regardless of their background or needs. We believe in providing an inclusive, aspirational education so that all students can learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We value our staff highly and treat workload seriously, ensuring you can focus on what matters most.
What We Offer:- Professional Growth: Access to excellent CPD opportunities and career development.
- Supportive Environment: Highly visible and supportive senior leaders.
- Further Qualifications: The chance to complete additional qualifications.
- Work-Life Balance: Systems that ensure you can focus on your core purpose.
- Enhanced Annual Leave: Minimum of 24 days per academic year, plus statutory bank holidays.
- Health Support: Access to AXA’s 24/7 health support line for medical advice.
- Cycle to Work Scheme: Salary sacrifice deduction for bicycles and cycling accessories.
- Discounts and Savings: Access to the Blue Light Card and Costco membership.
- Enhanced Family Leave: Paid leave to support our people when they need it the most.
- Optical Care: Financial contribution to optical care for habitual DSE users.
- Life Assurance: Peace of mind for our people and their families.
- Discounted Gym Membership: Available at The Gym Group with 245 locations nationwide.
- Pleasant Location: A beautiful setting in Cambridgeshire.
If you’re looking for a new challenge and have a passion for education, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply. We welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from underrepresented groups, including Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference? Take the next step in your career and join our forward-thinking team. Apply today and be part of our mission to create a positive impact!
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Longsands Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1653 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Longsands Academy website
Longsands Academy, part of Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully-inclusive secondary school at the heart of its community. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging and supportive environment in which our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence. Our staff are committed to nurturing the abilities of every child with a curriculum which promotes academic excellence and is delivered by subject specialists. The opportunities we provide allow all students to showcase their talents, whether through the traditional school day or as a result of the wealth of extra-curricular activities on offer. Furthermore, in order to develop the important qualities of independent learning and resilience, our students are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning both in and out of lessons. We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students that are a result of the high expectations, students’ hard work and commitment and the supportive relationships that exist between staff, students and their parents/carers.
The pursuit of academic excellence is at the heart of the Academy. Through high expectations of behaviour, a commitment to great standards of teaching delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum, and positive working relationships with all members of the academy community, all students, regardless of their background or personal circumstances, are encouraged to achieve their academic aspirations. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge that takes students beyond their everyday experiences. We believe in a traditional, subject-based approach to teaching in order to create a scholarly culture that is disciplined and joyful. We want to ensure that we open doors for every students’ future and develop in them a life-long love of learning.
We are committed to developing our staff to be the very best that they can be by striving to ensure that all of our colleagues can access high-quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Our CPD programme is both department-based and in collaboration with academies within the Astrea family and external partners. Wide-ranging opportunities for professional development are available for staff at all stages of their career, including ECTs, experienced classroom teachers, middle and senior leaders and support staff.
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