Associate Head of Supporter Data Insights and Selections
Job Description
Job Title: Associate Head of Supporter Data Insights and Selections
Directorate: Engagement and Fundraising
Team/Department (if specific): Public Engagement
Date Written/ Amended: September 2025
Context and Background
The NSPCC’s mission is to end cruelty to children by fighting for every childhood.
To carry out its charitable work, the NSPCC relies on the fundraising support of
people across the UK for 90% of its annual income. Within fundraising, our aim is
to provide maximum resources for the NSPCC. We aim to provide the best possible
supporter experience, building long-term relationships to create an experience
which is different, better and more rewarding than that of supporting any other
charity.
The Public Engagement team is responsible for developing and delivering the
strategy that will drive significant, long-term income growth by inspiring and
engaging public audiences to support the work of the NSPCC.
This will be achieved through integrated, audience-led, multi-channel marketing
approaches, including; mass participation, individual giving, and campaigns that
generate sustainable funding aligned to the NSPCC’s strategic priorities.
Alongside income generation, the team plays a vital role in increasing public
understanding of abuse and neglect and building advocacy.
The Associate Head of Supporter Data Insight and Selections is a key
member of the Public Engagement leadership team who will lead the
development and delivery of insightful supporter data reporting and analysis,
working closely with Operations and philanthropy and partnership teams to
identify business challenges, commission, develop and analyse data sets that
directly improve fundraising outcomes. The role will also be responsible for
managing our vital data selections team, who ensure the right supporters are
receiving appropriate communications.
The team will foster a high-performing, results-driven culture that values
collaboration, innovation, and integration. By focusing on excellent supporter
relationship management and purposeful engagement, it will deliver long-term,
sustainable impact to support the NSPCC’s mission.
This will be a pivotal role in driving supporter insight driven change in
Fundraising at the NSPCC.Job purpose
• Strategy and Planning: Use your experience of leading data and analysis to
establish a high performing team who design, deliver and analyse information
that informs our strategic direction
• Delivery: Lead on the identification, development and delivery of analysis
and reporting outputs across Engagement and Fundraising, working closely
with multiple senior stakeholders to ensure business needs are met.
Key relationships - Internal
Reporting to the Head of Audience Engagement and Campaign Planning in
Engagement and Fundraising
Direct Management of 4 staff and a total team size of 7
Works closely with Technology teams providing data engineering solutions
and expert PowerBI leadership
Works closely with the Operations Team, and other Senior Business
Stakeholders
Works closely with Head of Planning, Compliance and Business
Management
Key relationships - External
- Data, insight and analysis networks
- External suppliers of commissioned insight
Main duties and responsibilities
• Develop and lead the Supporter Data Insights and Selections team
• Work with leaders in Engagement and Fundraising to develop and drive the
strategic direction for Supporter Insight, data analysis and data selections
across the NSPCC.
• Build a productive partnership with the PowerBI development hub in
Technology, utilising their semantic models and complex reporting, and
taking on tools they have developed.• Initiate and oversee the development of data driven insight, analysis and
reporting across multiple teams, campaigns and products in the directorate,
ensuring best practice is being adopted and that there are appropriate levels
of quality assurance.
• Deliver via appropriate tools to bring data owners closer to their own data,
such as (but not limited to) provision of Power BI reporting
• Lead on the commissioning and acquisition of appropriate external data to
benchmark our business performance and inform strategic decision making
• Work closely with the Planning and Business Management Team to meet KPI
and other business reporting needs
• Proactively work with Data engineering and the Power BI hub in Technology
Responsibilities for all Staff within Engagement and Fundraising
• To update databases and supporter information systems on a
regular basis in line with Data Protection legislation and NSPCC
policy and procedures.
• To actively participate in regular department and team meetings
• To adhere to all the NSPCC’s service standards, policies and procedures.
• To evidence an understanding of and commitment to the
demonstration of the NSPCC’s values.
• To maintain an awareness of and comply with NSPPC data
protection regulations and to ensure currency of changing GDPR
regulations.
• To be responsible for personal learning and development, to support
the learning and development of others and the whole organisation.
• To work in a manner that facilitates and encourages inclusion.
• To be pro-active in identifying ways to improve personal and team
performance
• To maintain an awareness of own and others’ Health and Safety and
comply with the NSPCC’s Health and Safety policy and procedures
• To take personal responsibility for keeping up to date with NSPCC work to
end cruelty to children, including securing updates on project and service
developments and general NSPCC news.Person specification
• Proven effective development and delivery of strategic data initiatives and
harnessing outcomes to drive business change, and to manage multiple
initiatives as a programme
• Experience of working closely with leaders to define and deliver against data
needs that drive business impact
• Experience of reviewing the effectiveness of business-as-usual activity and
ongoing strategies using data and insight
• Experience in managing and leading data analyst and/or reporting teams and
providing technical and development support to more junior data analysts
• Experience and strong understanding of a range of data analysis techniques
and toolsets
• Highly developed stakeholder management skills and the ability to simplify
technical language for non-technical colleagues