2 Data manager jobs in Liverpool, Merseyside

About the role 

This is an exciting opportunity to join UK Community Foundations (UKCF) and help deliver partnerships that amplify community voice, grow place-based philanthropy and transform grant making across the UK. 

The Partnerships and Insight team develops and delivers UKCF’s UK-wide funding partnerships, working with funders, community foundations and partners to bring resources and support into local communities. We provide a unique national/local model: community foundations deliver local funding programmes alongside their deep local intelligence and context, and UKCF provides national insight, learning, co-ordination, convening and advocacy.

We also lead on UKCF’s wider insight work, amplifying community foundations and the voices of their communities.

We’re recruiting for three roles in the team: two Partnerships and Insight Managers and a Data and Insight Manager (this role), who will work closely together. 

In this role, you will lead  data and insight work behind our large-scale funding partnerships, primarily, and feed into our wider learning and insight activity. You will help design how we learn from partnerships, by collecting and analysing the data they generate, and turn it into insight that government, funders, community foundations and colleagues can use. 

You will support the design of proportionate, progressive and inclusive learning approaches for new UK-wide partnerships, management of external learning partners, produce clear reports and data visualisations, and help make sure UKCF meets its reporting commitments to funders. 

We are especially interested in hearing from people who enjoy working with numbers and stories in equal measure, who can move between a spreadsheet and a conversation with a community foundation, and who believe learning should be useful to the people closest to the work, not just to those reporting on it or receiving the reports.

What you’ll be doing 

• championing place-based approaches and community foundations in all your work 

• designing proportionate impact and learning approaches for large-scale funding partnerships, from proposal stage onwards 

• alongside the wider Partnerships & Insight team, developing theories of change, learning questions and outcome frameworks with community foundations, funders and other partners 

• designing and managing data collection across the partnership portfolio 

• analysing quantitative and qualitative data and turning it into clear insights 

• working with learning and evaluation partners

• producing reports, briefings, dashboards and data visualisations for different audiences 

• supporting the team to meet reporting commitments to stakeholders 

• sharing insight through learning sessions and convenings, and with communications colleagues 

The role combines analysis, contributing to learning design, partner management and storytelling. It would suit someone who enjoys turning data into insight that people can act on, across a varied portfolio.

What we’re looking for 

We’re interested in people who bring confident data collection and analysis and clear communication skills which can inform strong impact and learning (or monitoring, evaluation and learning) practice, alongside an understanding of the voluntary, community, grant-making or funding sectors. You should be confident using AI, both in terms of competency and in terms of responsible use and ethics, but you don’t need to be an expert.

We are particularly interested in applicants who have experience designing and applying learning approaches that are proportionate and useful to the people closest to the work. Experience of grant making, community foundations or place-based funding, or of commissioning and managing evaluators, would be a bonus, but is not essential.

This is a new role and we are building this function; there’s no one right way to do this work. We welcome applications from people do not meet every requirement but bring valuable experience, perspectives and potential to the role, especially where that experience has traditionally been underrepresented in the funding, grant making, and voluntary and community sector. 

You might recognise yourself in some or all of the following: 

• experience of designing and delivering data, insights, impact and learning (or monitoring, evaluation and learning) activity in a charity, funder, public or social sector setting 

• an approach to learning and reporting that reflects proportionate, progressive practice and inclusive design 

• strong skills in analysing quantitative and qualitative data and drawing out clear findings, and using these to produce reports, dashboards, and data visualisations. 

• A commitment to positioning and describing communities, and community work, by focusing on the strengths of communities (asset based) and by acknowledging their central role in creating local change (agency centred) 

• An understanding of the UK funding sector and/or philanthropy – perhaps from working in a funder, perhaps from being in a charity or other organisation that seeks funding, or from providing a service to a funder. Perhaps from an adjacent or transferable field. 

• Experience or an understanding of place-based approaches, or community foundations specifically, or interest in them 

• a working understanding of UK GDPR and ethical, consent-based data practice and confidence using CRM systems, Microsoft 365 and AI tools

You might not meet every requirement but bring valuable experience, perspectives and potential to the role, especially where that experience has traditionally been underrepresented in the funding, grant making and voluntary and community sector. If that sounds like you, we encourage you to apply and tell us about your transferable experience.

About UKCF 

UK Community Foundations brings together 47 independent and accredited community foundations across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Together, community foundations cover every local authority area and connect donors, funders and partners with the communities they care about. 

In 2024 to 2025, community foundations distributed £183 million through more than 38,000 grants and stewarded a combined endowment of £881 million. 

Inclusion statement 

UK Community Foundations is committed to building an inclusive organisation and a diverse field. We welcome applications from people from minoritised ethnic communities, disabled people, people from lower socio-economic backgrounds and people who are underrepresented in the charity and philanthropy sector.