ID 1874 - Senior School Information Programme Designer

As a vital member of our team, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the educational landscape in Wales. In this role, you’ll drive initiatives that enhance the quality of information about our school system, ensuring transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Your work will directly impact policy decisions and contribute to the success of the new Curriculum for Wales and to improving education standards. Your area of work oversees policy development related to the use of school system information. You’ll lead activities supporting better outcomes for Welsh learners. As the system evolves, your focus will shift to maintaining our reformed information ecosystem, ensuring it benefits all stakeholders. Aspects of this work are high-profile and may involve Ministerial engagement., + You will be responsible for managing defined areas of work using your specialist knowledge or experience to exercise sound judgement when interpreting complex or conflicting information weighing up all evidence to produce innovative solutions to problems. + You will be adaptable, flexible, open to, and accepting of change affecting you and your area of work and deal with that change efficiently and professionally. + You will show political awareness and an understanding of the political landscape when considering the impact of your decision and work on the wider business area and when formulating proposals for Senior Managers and Ministers. What your team will expect + You may be required to manage a team setting clear direction on achieving their objectives. You will support team members in their work such as complex areas of work; work allocation and prioritisation; performance management; training and development; mentoring and coaching. + You will value diversity and inclusion, creating an environment where individuals feel safe to challenge, share ideas and express concerns adopting an inclusive leadership style. + You will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining systems or processes ensuring excellence or value for money. What key stakeholders will expect + You will take the lead in creating, building and maintaining constructive relationships at all levels. + You will be able to tailor and adapt your communication style (written and oral) to advise, guide, influence and persuade internal and external stakeholders as appropriate., + 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: 1. the development of learner and workforce wellbeing information requirements and tools to facilitate stakeholders in the collation of related data. 2. 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

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Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: + Leadership + Changing and Improving + Working Together + Seeing the Big Picture, Welsh Government, like all other Government Departments use Success Profiles when we recruit. For each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job. It raises performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. The selection process and stages are: Number of Stages: 2 stage process Stage 1 Application Form Stage 2 Interview Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: + UK nationals + nationals of the Republic of Ireland + nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK + nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) + nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) + individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 + Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

All Welsh Government staff are members of the Civil Service, and as a result are eligible for: + Civil Service Pension Scheme + 31 days annual leave (pro-rated for part time) + training and development opportunities + Cycle2Work Scheme + Smart Working flexible working arrangement + Green Car Scheme (subject to availability) If you are an active Civil Service Pension member you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us.