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About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and highly knowledgeable Head of Policy & Insights to join our Strategic Marketing team. This role will drive our understanding of the education landscape and manage our engagement with the sector. The primary focus is to manage the full insights value chain, from analyzing internal datasets to generating market, competitor, and customer insights. These insights will influence internal planning and national policy discussions.

Responsibilities

Lead research and analysis to refine Arbor’s 5-year strategic plan, assessing new market adjacencies, potential acquisitions, and long-term growth levers.
Maintain a live view of the competitive landscape, producing regular briefings on competitor strategy and market shifts.
Regularly brief the Management Team on external risks and opportunities, acting as a trusted advisor on sector trends.
Serve as the primary analyst for strategic insights, interrogating datasets to uncover national trends and create proprietary value.
Partner with Brand and Content teams to author high-quality white papers, blogs, and reports, turning data analysis into compelling narratives.
Represent Arbor in the sector, cultivating relationships with the DfE, policymakers, and influencers.
Monitor the DfE policy pipeline and legislative changes, interpreting their impact on Arbor’s product roadmap and commercial strategy.
Partner with the Brand team to feed data-led stories into PR efforts, ensuring Arbor is cited in the national press.

Requirements

You sit at the intersection of strategy, public affairs, and analytics.
You are comfortable presenting slide decks to Management and analyzing datasets in Excel.
Deep understanding of the UK education sector, government policy, and the EdTech market.
Proven experience in a research, strategy, or think-tank role responsible for end-to-end data project delivery.
Exceptional writing and speaking skills, with the ability to distill complex policy and data into clear, persuasive arguments.
Self-sufficient and proactive, comfortable scoping, executing, and delivering projects independently.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Skills

Strategy
Public affairs
Analytics
Excel
UK education sector knowledge
Government policy knowledge
EdTech market knowledge
Research
Data analysis
Communication
Writing
Speaking
Stakeholder management
Horizon scanning
PR

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
Flexible working

Experience Level

Experienced
Senior

Salary/Compensations

£90,000 - £100,000

Benefits

Dedicated wellbeing team
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
Life Assurance (3x annual salary)
Comprehensive wellness benefit (AIG Smart Health - 24/7 virtual GP, mental health support, counselling, personalised health checks)
Private Dental Insurance (Bupa)
Salary sacrifice Pension (Scottish Widows)
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay)
Enhanced paternity leave (6 weeks full pay)
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions
Access to Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
Social committees
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships)
Volunteer day with a charity of your choice
Dog friendly offices

About the Company

At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better.
We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked.
Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 12,000 schools and trusts.
We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn.

Equal Opportunity

Arbor Education is an equal opportunities organisation.
Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.