Data Manager
Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
9 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
25 June 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
- NJC Scale 9, points 29-32 (36 hours, 52 weeks)
Data Manager job summary
Based at Orion Eden Park
Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
About the role
This role will lead on the use of Data across the school in liaison with the Trust data lead. The successful candidate will lead the school’s MIS (Management Information System) Arbor.
Key Responsibilities
To lead the school’s use of Arbor and data, developing the use to promote efficient and effective management of information within the school.
To produce and develop clear, concise, and accurate information reports to raise standards.
To lead on all School data returns (including school census and school workforce census, Sept Guarantee, sixth from return), ensuring that they are accurate and submitted on time.
To develop, monitor and maintain the school’s progress reporting systems and procedures.
To maintain the school timetable during the year via Arbor, supporting with the initial set up if needed.
To lead on aspects of support staff CPD in relation to the use of Arbor and other management information systems as required.
To line manage staff as directed by the principal.
To support Senior Leaders to analyse data to raise standards.
Support the daily allocation of cover across the school.
To support the examinations process within the school, supporting the examinations officer.
Lead on the continued implementation and use of Arbor and associated data analysis tools for the recording and export of student assessment data, including the capture of grades from teaching staff, aspects, results sets, templates and reports.
To be responsible for maintaining all student courses and school data within Arbor including student class assignment, the transfer of student data between all external and internal systems, and the export of internal assessment data for analysis.
To be responsible for setting up all Arbor users with appropriate levels of permissions as advised by the line leader, and to take a leading role in the training and development of staff in using Arbor to ensure its applications are fully exploited.
To lead end of year processes including the creation of the new academic year, pastoral structure, pre-admissions, new student admissions, leavers, and student class assignments to ensure the school is ready for the new academic year.
To maximise the functionality of Arbor to ensure the easy capture of data and so to reduce workload and enable the school to be compliant with various workforce agreements.
Ensure that Arbor and associated applications are fully operational and working with IT Technical support as required.
Keep abreast of current guidance, requirements, and good practice in relation to Information Systems developments and the effective use of data.
Maintain detailed working knowledge of all areas of Arbor and associated systems.
Maintain a clear understanding of the Data Protection Act and the implications that it has for managing school data.
To be accountable for the quality of data systems within the school and for the quality of data prepared for a range of stakeholders including Governors and parents.
To respond to educational developments which have implications for data management and analyses of student assessment data.
Support the school’s teaching staff in the development, provision and use of all student assessment and progress data for the purposes of planning, grade tracking, analysis and raising standards.
Prepare complex strategic, operational, and analytical reports for the Senior Leadership Team, Faculty Leaders, and Governors.
To monitor the use of data in the school including collecting feedback from users and evaluate both the provision and its quality and use these findings to create action plans for continuous improvement. To be responsible for the implementation of these plans.
Carry out all work involved with creating the school statutory returns including School Census and the Work Force Census, ensure that the data returns are accurate and submitted ahead of deadlines. Support and train staff in similar roles at different schools.
Maintain the learning aims of Post 16 students ensuring the validity of all data as this informs all funding for the Sixth Form.
Liaise with the Standards and Testing Agency, LRS, DfE as required.
To lead the setup, maintenance, collation and production of reports.
Ensure that reports include up to date data from progress tracking and arrange the distribution of all progress reports to parents and staff.
Coordinate the annual assessment schedule and the availability and completion of report data with the Deputy Headteacher.
Manage processes to quality assure student reports.
To ensure target setting is updated as requested
Liaise with Examinations Officer, CPD Co-ordinator, HR, School Visits Co-ordinator, Senior Leadership Team, Finance, and other staff as appropriate, about cover implications, staffing and re-rooming.
Liaise with the Exams Officer to assist with routine tasks throughout the year when required.
To undertake such other tasks as may be required from time to time consistent with being a member of the Associate Staff Team.
Undertake training to develop further all aspects of the school’s data management systems, and to assist in the training of other staff.
*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
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 Orion Eden Park
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Orion Eden Park website
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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