Data Support Officer
Summit Learning Trust, Birmingham, B27 7QG12 days remaining to apply
Closing date
23 February 2026 at 11am
Date listed
10 February 2026
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
- £25,177.00 - £31,131.00 Annually (Actual)
Data Support Officer job summary
Data Support Officer - Central Trust
Required: ASAP
Hours: 36.5 hours a week, Term Time Only + 2 Weeks
Salary: Grade 3 Points 9-22 £27,254 - £33,699 FTE per annum (Actual salary £25,177 - £31,131 per annum)
Permanent
Summit Learning Trust Mission Statement
Success through Endeavour
Ambition through Challenge
Strength through Diversity
About this Role
Summit Learning Trust are looking to appoint a highly motivated Data Support Officer to join our Central Data Team.
Good-quality, reliable data underpins everything we do - from delivering excellent teaching and pastoral provision for our learners to offering effective support and professional development opportunities for our colleagues.
As part of a central team, you will play a vital role in raising standards and improving outcomes for learners and colleagues across our Trust.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with producing high-quality, time-sensitive reporting outputs for various users - including Senior Leaders, Governors, and Trustees - in line with our reporting calendar.
- Provide administrative support in the team’s project management functions by helping to manage information about development requests.
- Provide first-line support to colleagues across the organisation via our helpdesk by handling routine data and systems queries
- Maintain records relating to data quality and systems usage across the organisation’s data structure.
- Coordinate review cycles for policies and procedures owned by the team to ensure documentation is kept up to date.
- Keep up to date and compliant with the policies and procedures in operation within the Trust and its Academies.
About You
You will need to demonstrate:
- A data-related qualification or relevant experience in a data driven environment.
- Strong computer literacy skills, including with applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- A passion for working with data, collaborating with others, and your own continuous professional development.
We are happy to explore flexible working, subject to the operational requirements of the role.
Why Join Summit Learning Trust?
- A welcoming, supportive, and inclusive working environment.
- Commitment to your professional development with high quality CPD opportunities and career progression.
- Access to staff wellbeing initiatives and a wide range of employee benefits.
- The chance to make a meaning impact on the lives of young people.
Informal conversations are warmly welcomed. Please contact Daniel Knight at daniel.knight@summitlearningtrust.org.uk
Closing date for applications is midday on 23rd February 2026. It is anticipated interviews will be held shortly after.
We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and communities. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and supported to thrive.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, including a Children’s Barred List check., and online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates. Our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy is available to view here. If you require the application form in a different format, please contact hr.enquiries@summitlearningtrust.org.uk.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Summit Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
About the Trust
https://www.summitlearningtrust.org.uk
Why work for us?
The Trust offers:
• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High Quality training and support in and across academies
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, including a Children’s barred list check
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