Senior Data Analyst (7301)

Senior Data Analyst

Save the Children UK is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our high performing Analysis team in the Public Impact division. You'll play a key role in delivering insight led, supporter focused solutions that drive income, engagement, and impact for children.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About Public Impact

The purpose of the Public Impact is to build an active community of people in the UK who give money, time and take action to enable lasting change for children. We are building a distinctive modern cause that galvanises the public to act with us.

About the role

As Senior Data Analyst, you will be at the forefront of transforming how data and analytics shape our fundraising, marketing and campaigning activity through Public Impact.

Working in an environment of agile, multi disciplinary teams you'll be a great collaborator and an experienced analytics professional, adept at building strong relationships and cutting through boundaries in a fast moving and dynamic environment. Leveraging agile principles, you'll flex and adapt - learning rapidly and responding to change, while keeping our supporters at the heart of everything you do.

This role is ideal for someone who combines technical excellence with a strong strategic mindset and the ability to translate complex analysis findings into actionable business change.

In this role you will:

• Lead cross cutting strategic analysis projects across our marketing, fundraising and campaign squads.
• Act as a key strategic partner and subject matter expert, turning analysis into actionable recommendations that improve supporter engagement and income generation.
• Identify and implement innovative, predictive analytics solutions to our biggest business challenges.
• Lead the use of advanced algorithms and tools to improve efficiency and decision making across the division.
• Foster a culture of data driven decision making through self service tools, training, and storytelling.
• Act as product owner for our suite of CRM analytics tools, leading the development roadmap and collaborating with suppliers.

About you

Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence non technical stakeholders and explain complex concepts to those same stakeholders.
• Proven experience applying advanced analytical techniques in marketing, including segmentation (e.g. cluster analysis), behaviour prediction (e.g. propensity modelling), churn analysis, A/B testing, and data visualisation.
• Strong skills in R (R Studio), SQL or Python for statistical analysis in a commercial context.
• Experience with data analytics tools and platforms such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Salesforce, Microsoft Power BI is advantageous.
• Experience working with large datasets, including extracting and preparing data using SQL and a strong understanding of relational databases.
• Experience with website analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics) is desirable.
• Passion for applying data to drive positive social impact.

What we offer you

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.
• Generous annual leave - starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual 'Save the Children Day'.
• Family Leave - up to 39 weeks maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).
• Special Leave - up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.
• Volunteer Leave - up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back.
• Pension & Life Assurance - helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions.
• Employee Discounts - access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.
• Health & Wellbeing Support - including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations.

Location & Ways of Working

This role can be performed remotely on the island of Ireland, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office in Belfast (usually between 1-2 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact. This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage. Travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. Flexible working options are available and can be discussed at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce, and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where structural inequality is actively addressed, and all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can thrive. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, especially those with diverse and intersecting identities such as lived experience of poverty, people of faith, people of colour, people with disabilities, experience of migration and/or refugee status, care experienced people, the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals with experience living in diverse families. We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. We know that different voices working together will enable us to do our work better, improving the lives of children around the world.

Salary Structure

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children Careers

Interview Expenses

Candidates should note that we do not reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre employment Checks

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• A satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• Receipt of satisfactory references - as a committed member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, as part of our onboarding process, Save the Children UK will undertake a minimum of 2 references, and any additional references required to collectively cover the last 5 years of your employment history.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role.

Full time (flexible working options available)

Full time (flexible working options available)

Closing date

Midnight on Sunday 26th July