Description
We are looking for a Research & Data Manager to join the Music Mark team and lead on our work championing high quality research, data collection and analysis. If you have a passion for data that you can share with our network, we'd love to meet you!
Contract hours: 14 hours per week
What you'll be doing:
- Leading data collection and analysis across Music Mark to support data-led decision making and advocacy
- Fostering data literacy internally and across the sector
- Developing links with Higher Education institutions, positioning Music Mark as an academic partner for research
- Promoting and translating academic research for a wider audience
- Commissioning research where gaps are identified and evidence is required to support the case for music education
- Leading on Music Mark's supportive role around collecting and interpreting data linked to government funding in England and Wales, including analysis of national music education data sets
- Developing toolkits and training for the membership and wider sector
- Developing relationships between Music Mark and academia
What we offer:
- A friendly and dedicated home-working staff team.
- Flexible working can be negotiated to ensure work/life balance.
- A staff training budget is available to support your professional and personal development.
- When working away from your normal place of work for this role, expenses relating to travel and subsistence will be paid for or reimbursed by Music Mark subject to the Expenses Policy.
- A laptop and/or other office equipment and resources will be provided where needed to undertake this role.
- Holiday entitlement for full-time employees is 25 days per year, plus statutory bank holidays and an office closure between Christmas and New Year. The entitlement for this role will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
- 3% employer contributions to a NEST pension scheme.