Performance Analyst

The opportunity

The Performance Analyst will play a key role in delivering data insights that shape the digital services provided to students and staff. This role will work in the Student Experience directorate and build our data led ways of working focusing on extracting, analysing, and visualising data from multiple sources to provide insights, drive decision-making, enhance the user experience, and contribute to continuous service improvement.

The Performance Analyst will work closely with key stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, including UX Designers, Product Managers, and Developers, ensuring that data is at the heart of our work. This role will also contribute to the implementation and maintenance of data and analytics and support the development of robust, user-centred services.

In this recruitment round, we are seeking a Performance Analyst to work across our Student Experience service teams as we focus on creating and enhancing a seamless and reliable digital experience.

Your profile

• Demonstratable experience in data analysis with a track record of delivering projects that add value to the business.
• Experienced working with analytics platforms e.g. Google Analytics to deliver value from data.
• Understanding of data visualisation tools (Power BI / Tableau)
• Experience working with large datasets and databases and interrogate the underlying data sources, advising on data quality issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience of SQL would be beneficial

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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