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Data Manager

Kent Range 8 £24,489-£27,928pa

Maidstone, Kent

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls

Data Manager

Full-time 37 hours per week term time plus 4 weeks
Required from April/May 2021
8am-4.00pm Monday-Thursday 8am-3.30pm Friday
Kent Scheme Salaries 8: £24,489 - £27,928 per annum

We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and innovative colleague to join our team of committed professionals. This post would be equally suitable for a recently qualified graduate, or someone with relevant school experience. The successful candidate will support the over-arching objective of Maidstone Grammar School for Girls to deliver outstanding teaching and learning, by ensuring that the use of the school’s database SIMS is effective and efficient, and contribute to a high level of administrative efficiency in the school through the effective use of data, at all levels. The post requires the job holder to work closely with the Leadership Team and Governing Body, providing strategic information on student progress and achievement, and fulfil government and local authority requests for information.

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a very successful selective girls’ school of 1220 students with a mixed sixth form of approximately 340. Since July 2019 we have been appointed by the Department for Education as a Computer Hub in recognition of the expertise the school has evidenced in Computing Education and will take a lead in training teachers across the south east in the delivery of Computing. The post offers the opportunity to work with intellectually able young people in a supportive and friendly environment. Staff benefits include strong support for professional development, annual leave entitlement and healthcare scheme.

“Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is an outstanding school” (Ofsted)

Full details and an application pack are available from the school’s website https://www.mggs.org/joining-us/join-our-team/vacancies/

Applicants should complete our application form and email, along with a covering letter, to the Headteacher’s PA, Miss Starns via email: mstarns@mggs.org

Applications welcomed immediately
Applications will be considered in the order in which they are received. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

Closing Date: 8am 26th April 2021
Interviews: 28th April 2021

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Data Manager
Job Description

POST TITLE
Data Manager
GRADE
Kent Range 8
Full time Term Time plus four weeks (0.93 fte). There is a requirement to work in August for exam results and preparation for the new term.
DATE
March 2021
RESPONSIBLE TO
Headteacher
REPORTING TO
Assistant Headteacher responsible for assessment and reporting


Summary of Job:
• To support the over-arching objective of Maidstone Grammar School for Girls to deliver outstanding teaching and learning, by ensuring that the use of the school’s database SIMS is effective and efficient.
• To contribute to a high level of administrative efficiency in the school through the effective use of data, at all levels within the school.
• To work closely with the Leadership Team and Governing Body, providing strategic information on student progress and achievement, and fulfil government and local authority requests for information.


To act as SIMS manager, including managing staff access, troubleshooting SIMS problems, liaising with network team and EIS/Capita as required and ensuring that student data is accurate and up to date.

To lead training in SIMS as appropriate and contributing to the development of the usage of SIMS within the school, being responsive to change over time.

To manage timetable and register data in SIMS, ensuring that the timetable is loaded accurately into SIMS, at every point when timetable changes occur, that students are entered for correct classes and entering and maintaining any changes as they occur through the academic year.

To coordinate the production and distribution of school reports and tracking reviews for all year groups in accordance with the school’s assessment pattern.

Liaise with teaching staff to ensure data is recording is undertaken in a timely manner, investigating missing data / anomalies and supporting staff with queries relating to data and assessment recording.

To manage pre-planned absences in SIMS, and on rotation with learning mentors complete the daily update of cover needs on at least 2 days a week, ensuring a balance distribution of cover lessons within the cover team.

To prepare and produce analysis of data for a range of purposes as required to fulfil school and national needs.

To maintain SIMS Parent App, setting up and maintaining users, and ensuring that data is published via the gateway to parents.

To complete all census requests and submit to the local authority and/or DfE as requested by those bodies and within their specified deadlines.

To support the Examinations Officer in the downloading of public examination results and production of data reports, and maintain an understanding of the Public Examination process in order to be able to deputise for the examinations officer when required.

To maintain and extend personal expertise in specific areas of ICT to provide appropriate advice and support, and to access regularly key ICT education web sites to keep abreast of changes and developments.

To develop and refine the use of the school's management information system in light of any new software or technologies.

To allocate cover on a daily basis, line managing the cover supervisors.

To comply with school policies and procedures (including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, confidentiality and data protection) and uphold the ethos of the school.

To fulfil any other tasks reasonably requested by the line manager and Headteacher, including supervising lessons on an occasional basis.

Undertake appropriate training and professional development, as required by the school and in consultation with the line manager and Headteacher.




Person Specification

A list of qualities required always looks daunting. However, we would like to reassure you that we are realistic, and more interested in you as a whole person rather than in a tick-list of your attributes. It is not expected that you will have had the opportunity to develop each of the skills to the same level. Please use the statement in support of your application as an opportunity to tell us about your strengths, or the elements of your work of which you are most proud, and the ways in which you could make a contribution to this school. Thank you.


Qualifications
Evidence of strong numeracy skills
Evidence of good literacy skills
A good honours degree in a mathematics related subject

Personal qualities
An ability to communicate effectively
Capacity for hard work and high expectations of self and others
An ability to work under pressure, to balance potentially conflicting demands, and to meet tight deadlines
Supportive approach to others, and an ability to relate well to colleagues and students
Ability to work well within teams
Flexibility and willingness to adapt to changing circumstances and requirements
Commitment to support the ethos of the school and to comply with school policies and procedures
Generosity of spirit
Willingness to contribute to extra-curricular activities

Knowledge and skills
Strong IT skills, including spreadsheets
Ability to monitor and evaluate data
Strong skills of analysis
Strong communication skills
Strong organisational skills
A knowledge of SIMS

Experience and training
Evidence of a commitment to professional development
Experience of working in a school environment



Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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