Data Analyst at MSSC – United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Job Description

Description

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure. We also enable seafarers and maritime professionals to realize their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers, and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalized groups.

We are currently looking for a Data Analyst to join our team.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Policy and Insight this role is a central part of MSSC understanding its impact and driving change across the youth and maritime sectors.

The Data Analyst leads the coordination and delivery of organization-wide key performance indicators (KPIs) while working to support the organization’s wider evaluation and research work. The Data Analyst is embedded into the wider organization. There are exciting opportunities to support other staff and volunteers to access and use data and understand how to transform data recommendations into practical change. The role suits a keen analytical thinker, who revels in opportunities to collect and understand data and then see their recommendations bear fruit.

Responsibilities

The following is a list of the principal tasks of the Data Analyst and is not intended to be an exhaustive list:

• To gather correlate, and monitor relevant data from across the organization (e.g. Westminster) and from external sources (e.g. ONS)
• To evaluate our existing data processes and make recommendations regarding the streamlining of data collection and presentation
• To develop and implement new data collection, and analysis systems and processes where required
• To lead on regular KPI reporting
• To support the head of policy and insight into developing evaluation processes across the organization
• To support the head of policy and insight, in identifying, and collecting (including leading on elements of research independently) appropriate data for influencing work
• To provide practical upskilling, training, and support to teams and directorates who need to engage in self-serve data analysis and research
• To develop and utilize new ways to present MSSC data to engage key internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience in handling diverse datasets of varying quality
• Experience in translating findings from a range of different audiences both internal and external
• Understanding of how to process and analyze quantitative data
• Experience of appropriate processes around data security
• Experience in developing processes and procedures to collect and present data
• Experience of training in upscaling non-data experts
• Confidence in engaging with service users where required for data collection and analysis
• Confidence in general database management
• Confidence in database administration