Planning Analyst (Data Analytics) x 2

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The opportunity

As UAL responds to a changing world, we have recently launched an ambitious new 10-year strategy. The University Central Planning Unit will play an important role in defining how we reach our strategic goals and monitoring our progress on this journey.

As result we are investing in our planning team and expanding our capacity to help us shape the provision UAL offers, whilst ensuring we are informing and monitoring outcomes. This provision of advice, insights and analysis will allow senior decision-makers to plan for growth and ensure we are offering a first-class experience to all our students.

The Planning Analyst (Data Analytics) will take on a range of work to support planning and decision-making through the development and enhancement of our data analytics and management information reporting environment, together with work on our statutory/external returns.

The role is varied, and you will be undertaking the development of reporting dashboards in the University’s data visualisation tool whilst contributing to the data environment upon which these dashboards rely. You will also support the use of Alteryx within the Planning Unit, including further developments to our planning model and validation of data for our external returns.

About you

You will likely be looking to develop your experience or be ambitious to progress to your next role.

In your application you will need to evidence a working knowledge of SQL, including constructing complex queries, creating views, implementing stored procedures and functions, and knowledge of MS SQL Server. You will also have an understanding of relational databases, data visualisation techniques, and Microsoft Excel. Your experience will include working in a fast-paced role, managing competing demands, and disseminating management information to various audiences.

Experience in making a significant contribution to the preparation and submission of statutory returns is desirable, as is knowledge of Alteryx and reporting requirements in the UK Higher Education sector.

If you need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact, Sahil Ibrahim, Resourcing Adviser via email at Educationstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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