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About RSBC
The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) believes that every blind young person should have the chance to live life without limits. We work with children, young people and their families to provide specialist education, practical support and life‑changing opportunities.
About the role
We are looking for a tenacious and curious Data & Insight Analyst. This role is at the heart of how we use data to drive change. You’ll own our approach to data, insight and reporting across fundraising and services, making sure our systems work brilliantly, our data is trusted, and our reporting actually gets used.
In this role you’ll turn information into actionable insight; spotlighting how our supporters engage with us, how our services make a difference, and where we can do better. Your work will help us make smarter decisions, provide better supporter experiences, and ensure stronger outcomes for blind children and young people.
This is a varied role that will require both hands‑on day-to-day data crunching alongside organisation‑wide collaboration and continuous improvement. If that sounds up your street, we’d love to hear from you.
About you
You will be highly organised, analytical and improvement‑focused, with confidence to work across teams and explain complex stuff simply. You will have:
- Solid experience of end‑to‑end database management
- Excellent data analysis and interpretation skills
- The ability to produce visual reports, dashboards and reports, using data from different sources
- Strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills
- Outstanding attention to detail and commitment to data quality
- Great communication skills
- Most importantly, you will share RSBC’s commitment to supporting blind and partially sighted children and young people to live a life without limits
Why work for us?
- Flexible and hybrid working
- The opportunity to shape how data and insight are used across the organisation
- A values‑driven organisation with a clear purpose and impact
- Other benefits include an Employee Assistance Program, Perkbox and a 3% contribution towards your pension
Key responsibilities
Data management & systems
- Act as the primary system administrator for RSBC’s key databases
- Maintain high standards of data accuracy, hygiene and documentation
- Manage user permissions and secure access in line with data protection requirements
- Oversee integrations, imports, exports and API connections
- Lead on troubleshooting, system development and liaison with external providers
- Conduct routine data quality checks, audits, cleansing and deduplication
- Support month-end reconciliation, in collaboration with the Finance team
- Maintain accurate consent records and ensure regulatory compliance
- Advise colleagues on best practice and ethical data use
Insight & reporting
- Produce regular insight reports for teams across the organisation
- Develop KPI dashboards and visualisations to support decision‑making
- Analyse fundraising data including supporter behaviour, retention, conversion and lifetime value
- Analyse service delivery data including demographics, reach and outcomes
- Support impact measurement and reporting for funders
- Design, analyse and interpret surveys and evaluation data
- Proactively identify and communicate actionable insights
Development & improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve systems, workflows, automation and reporting
- Lead development projects to enhance how RSBC uses data
- Explore opportunities to build a ‘single customer view’ across platforms
To be there for blind children and their families with specialist support throughout their journey.
Job Title: Data Analyst, Selection & Outreach (Maternity Cover)
Location: Hybrid: the postholder will be expected to work in Rhodes House in central Oxford at least 1-2 days per week
Contract: 12 Months Fixed-term
Hours: We are open to full or part-time working arrangements, to be agreed with the successful candidate
Salary: £39,000 – £45,000 per annum (dependent on experience), plus benefits
Reports to: Head of Selection & Outreach
We have an opportunity for a Data Analyst to join the Rhodes Trust, Oxford. This role will be responsible for the capture, analysis and visualisation of data to inform outreach and selection initiatives, creating impactful reporting for staff, volunteers and stakeholders.
While we are ideally looking for someone who meets the selection criteria, we are committed to offering development opportunities for the post-holder and there may also be some flexibility in the scope of tasks and activities undertaken during the maternity leave period. Therefore, if you don’t tick all the boxes but have transferrable skills, and are motivated to work with us, then we would welcome an application from you.
We are looking for the successful candidate to start with us as soon as possible.
About the Rhodes Trust
The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which offers Rhodes Scholarships to exceptional students from around the world to come and study at the University of Oxford. Our mission is to build a better world through global fellowship programmes that develop and connect compassionate, innovative, and public-spirited people committed to solving humanity’s challenges.
In recent years, we have also partnered with several other remarkable organisations to create the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, the Atlantic Institute, Schmidt Science Fellows, RISE and Oxford Next Horizons.
The role will be responsible for;
· Liaise with the Data Systems Manager to ensure smooth transfer of data from Selection and Outreach platforms (e.g the Trust’s application system, Embark) into the Trust’s Data Warehouse.
· Create and maintain, data visualisation dashboards (via an existing interface) based on real-time application data for the active application round.
· Develop and deliver clear and effective data reports/data visualisations for the Selection & Outreach team, the Scholarship Committee, the Board of Trustees and individual projects based on bespoke requirements.
· Act as a Salesforce ‘superuser’; provide support to the Selection and Outreach team in the creation of reports etc in Salesforce and share best practice.
· Work with the Data Protection Office and relevant cross-team groups to remain up to date on GDPR requirements, and ensure compliance across the Selection and Outreach team.
· Support data-related requests, including facilitating subject access requests in collaboration with the Data Protection Office (e.g. collating relevant documentation)
· Role modelling the Trust’s organisational values of commitment, inclusion, belonging, growth and innovation.
· Carrying out any other duties relevant to the role, as requested.
· A deep commitment to the values, ethos and mission of the Rhodes Trust.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Degree or equivalent in a discipline with a substantial quantitative analytical component (e.g. statistics, economics, management science/operations research, finance or data analytics) and/or relevant experience working as a data analyst
- Demonstrable expertise in deploying a range of software packages to manipulate and analyse data (please indicate software used in your application).
- Experience using Tableau
- Proficient in using MS Excel for data manipulation and analysis
- Experience of using SQL
- Ability to tell a story with data using data visualisation skills
- Familiarity with CRM systems
- Strong research skills
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of GDPR and experience of handing relevant requests (e.g. Subject Access Requests)
- Experience using Salesforce
Please see the job description for more details
Benefits of working here
We are a global organisation and we use our deep connections across the world to bring together people of different backgrounds and viewpoints. We encourage our staff to challenge each other’s thinking and generate new ideas.
· 30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus 8 bank holidays
· Competitive pension scheme
· Generous family leave schemes
· Private health insurance
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Personal development opportunities
· Additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford.
· Cycle to work scheme
· Electric car scheme
If you would like to find out more, please click ‘apply’ to view the full job description and to find the link to apply. Please send us your CV and a covering letter. Please note, this advert will close on 4 May 2026. Interviews will take place in mid-May.
If you have any issues with submitting your application, please email the Recruitment team.
The Rhodes Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We warmly welcome applications from talented people of diverse backgrounds and appoint without regard to age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, parental status, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality, religion or belief.
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