Principal Analyst

Job description

King’s College London’s vision is to make the world a better place through our excellence in teaching, research and our service to society. Key to executing on this vision, is the Analytics team, who are focused on delivering insights and analysis to senior partners across King’s. The team is expanding, and we are looking for Principal Analysts to join us, as we continue to enhance the value derived from our data assets.

As a Principal Analyst, you will lead on multiple high profile and impact activities with a large degree of autonomy and self-direction. This will involve working directly with senior stakeholders so that you can:

• Understand, translate, and align business and data requirements
• Provide new insights on existing challenges across different subject domains
• Constructively challenge existing assumptions and preconceived ideas
• Demonstrate the ways in which data can drive innovation and foster a facts first environment.

To deliver on this, you will use a range of techniques and tools across a variety of data sources, to leverage the power of data to improve the staff and student experience. Your insights will be used to:

• Inform strategy development
• Support key decision-making processes
• Inform business planning

At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

We believe that our differences make us stronger, and encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, learning styles, ways of thinking, experiences and abilities. 

As a multi-award-winning data team, we are committed to investing in our people by offering growth through:

• Dedicated learning days to support your career development
• Hybrid and remote working arrangements and,
• A culture of collaboration and teamwork

King’s offers a variety of benefits to support staff wellbeing, including:

• A highly competitive pension scheme,
• 27 days’ paid leave each year on top of public holidays, and four extra days at Christmas
• Paid time off to volunteer
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Leave and assistance to support parenting and caring commitments
• Flexible working
• Support with travel costs
• Two wellbeing days a year

More information can be found here: https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/king-s-benefits

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post, but part time arrangements may be considered.

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