Data and Insights Manager

The Data and Insights Manager will play a key role in supporting Villiers Park through the collection, analysis and reporting of robust evaluation and monitoring. Working across teams and hubs, the postholder will support consistent data collection, lead analysis and synthesis, and help ensure evidence informs learning, decision-making and external communication.

The role will focus on coordinating mixed-methods evaluation, with qualitative approaches, including Stories of Change, as a key way of understanding young people’s experiences of change, or clarity, and the impact of our programmes.

Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 FTE (£19,800 - £21,000) dependent on experience

Contract: 0.6 FTE (with Wednesday as a core working day)

Reports to: Assistant Director

Location: Hybrid or remote, with preference for location near to one of our regional hubs or Cambridge office.

Closing Date: - 5 pm, Wednesday 24 June 2026

Interview Date: - 1st Stage: w/c 29 June 2026

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Alex Grant:

AG@villierspark.org.uk

If you would like to apply for one of our vacancies, please download and complete an application form and an Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form, and email them with a short covering letter to hr@villierspark.org.uk.

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Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Working closely with the Assistant Director, develop, implement and review monitoring and evaluation approaches for all programmes, ensuring that the data outputs can be used in a range of ways.
Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and wider staff team to develop, implement and review Theories of Change.
Work with the Programmes team to design and deploy monitoring and evaluation methods to capture and store relevant quantitative and qualitative data from a range of sources, including individuals and via schools/colleges and partner organisations.
Undertake data analysis and write reports for internal and external audiences on process and impact evaluations for all programmes, including annual school impact reports.
Support the Communications and Fundraising Teams by providing regularly updated data and evaluation, regional contextual demographic data and comparative national datasets.
Manage programmes and impact data storage to ensure relevant access is delivered for SLT, Programmes, Fundraising and Communications teams and compliance with GDPR.
Keep up to date with changes in regulation and best practice in data management and data protection/consent, especially when data subjects are under 18.
Ensure that all data management and evaluation practices are compliant with statutory safeguarding and GDPR regulations and Villiers Park’s safeguarding, data protection and privacy policies.
Deliver evaluation training and evaluation review meetings to inform and engage the wider organisation with evaluation practices and the implementation of data and insights.
Undertake other duties as required to support the mission and work of Villiers Park.