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About the Role

Lead the preparation and submission of statutory student data returns, ensuring data quality, regulatory compliance and effective collaboration across Regent College London.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to deliver statutory data returns, ensuring compliance with timescales and deadlines.
• Act as an expert on the uses and implications of institutional data within regulatory returns.
• Understand the data required from the institution to meet statutory data requirements, including data flows across systems.
• Ensure college systems can collect the right data by working across the data and technology landscape.
• Identify data quality issues within statutory data and work with data owners, stewards, and producers to find resolutions.
• Define and deliver an assured statutory dataset for insight and analysis, including providing data definitions and quality assurance.
• Lead the preparation, validation, and submission of statutory data returns, including HESA, OfS, Data Futures, Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey, Provider Profile, Discover Uni, NSS, and Graduate Outcomes.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of data by implementing robust data quality checks and validation processes.
• Collaborate with internal departments to gather and compile necessary data.
• Stay updated on changes in statutory data reporting requirements to ensure institutional compliance.
• Interpret and implement data reporting guidelines from regulatory bodies.
• Advise senior management on compliance issues and potential impacts of regulatory changes.
• Analyze data to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
• Develop and maintain documentation of data processes, methodologies, and definitions.
• Conduct regular audits to ensure data integrity and compliance with reporting standards.
• Liaise with external bodies, including regulatory agencies and auditors.
• Collaborate with academic and administrative staff to enhance data collection processes.
• Provide training and support to staff involved in data collection and reporting.
• Identify and implement enhancements to data collection and reporting systems.
• Work with IT and other departments to optimize data management systems and tools.
• Lead and manage projects related to statutory data returns, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met.
• Prepare reports and presentations for senior management on the status and outcomes of data return submissions.
• Manage and support a small team of data analysts, ensuring effective resource allocation.
• Provide leadership on the implications for statutory returns of major Office for Students and Government initiatives.
• Contribute to a collaborative work environment by supporting decision-making on BI and data warehouse solutions.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification.
• Proven experience with large and complex data sets.
• Experience managing statutory returns processes in higher education or public sector.
• Strong understanding of data quality assurance and data protection legislation.
• Ability to interpret and distill complex technical information for non-technical audiences.
• Highly analytical with the ability to process large volumes of data.
• Innovative and creative in problem-solving.
• Proficiency in using data tools and technology for data manipulation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and data visualization tools.
• Experience using relational database systems.
• Understanding of the requirements of data protection legislation and confidentiality policies.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex information and requirements.
• Ability to assess the purpose of required outputs, identify relevant data sources, and verify their validity.
• Ability to join, conform, manipulate, and scrutinize large and disparate data sets.
• Project management skills for key analyses to drive time-dependent regulatory work.
• Master’s degree in a relevant field (Desirable).
• Experience with specific higher education data systems (e.g., HESA, HESES) (Desirable).
• Knowledge of the UK Higher Education sector and national policy environment (Desirable).
• Experience with advanced data manipulation and visualization tools (e.g. Power BI) (Desirable).
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and best practices (Desirable).
• Knowledge of cloud-based data storage and management solutions (e.g. Microsoft 365) (Desirable).
• Experience with data integration tools and techniques (Desirable).
• Proficiency in SQL for complex queries and database management (Desirable).
• Understanding of machine learning and statistical analysis techniques (Desirable).

Skills

• Statutory returns
• Data quality
• Compliance
• Team leadership
• Complex dataset management
• Data analysis
• Data visualization
• Microsoft Office
• Relational database systems
• SQL
• Project management

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification
• Master’s degree in a relevant field (Desirable)

Salary/Compensations

• Upto 55K

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• Life Assurance Plans
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Pension, Cars, Cycle to Work)
• Annual Leave & Holiday Benefits (Buy Holiday, Additional Christmas Leave & Carry Over Leave)
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) & 24/7 Access to GPs
• Employee Discounts (Gym, Shopping, Cinema)

About the Company

• Regent College London is a leading independent higher education provider, offering flexible and inclusive learning across multiple London campuses.
• We are student-focused, digitally forward, and committed to academic excellence.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion, selection for employment is based solely on an individual’s skills, qualifications, and experience relevant to the role.