Senior School Information Programme Designer

at  Welsh Assembly Government Communication Centre Home

ID 1874
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Key tasks

• Lead the development of a reformed suite of information integral to school improvement arrangements: design a programme of work to review, revise and supplement a balanced suite of information requirements, comprising a range of datasources for different uses. This involves promoting consistency in approach, minimising the burden on schools, and ensuring coherent information sharing across organisations that support schools.
• As part of ongoing information ecosystem development, this role will take forward the design and refinement of a revised set of qualifications-based learning indicators that are reflective of individual learning journeys, alongside a wider set of 14-16 learning data requirements that considers learners’ wider skills, experiences and destinations - all while considering the diverse needs of stakeholders and different purposes for using the data.
• This role will steer other areas of key focus including:
• the development of learner and workforce wellbeing information requirements and tools to facilitate stakeholders in the collation of related data.
• the research on deprivation data, collaborating with KAS Research leads, Equity leads, and School Business Planning and Governance leads (the eFSM and Beyond study is evaluating whether free school meals eligibility (eFSM) data remains a suitable proxy for socio-economic disadvantage for use in calculating funding and assess the impact of poverty on learner outcomes. It is also exploring other options that might supplement or replace the identifier in future).
• This role will develop and manage our gatekeeping processes crucial to ensuring a maintained focus and balance in the information ecosystem, acting as business analyst to consider suitability and assess impact of policy and corporate data needs, working closely with the data collections team and School Statistics team on the development of routine and ad hoc data reporting requests.
• This role will also work closely with the Senior School Information Reporting Manager on the development of reporting systems for a range of stakeholders, to facilitate data use.
• As an integral part of the overarching school improvement policy, this role will work closely in all aspects of ensuring the information ecosystem align with policy aspirations and related programmes of work, including Self-evaluation Wales and the schools system National Resources for Evaluation and Improvement (NR:EI).
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders including managing regular catch-ups with schools’ data and information leads in Estyn and leading in discussions with Qualifications Wales.
• To lead, manage and develop a small team of 1*HEO and a Team Support