Senior Data and Insights Adviser

Salary: £57,798

Closing date: Wednesday 15, January 2025

Contract type: Permanent

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience, where you can enjoy exhibitions, museum and library collections, public events, and a vibrant shop and café. We also publish books and online stories.

This is a great time to join Wellcome Collection as we embark on an exciting period of change. Wellcome Collection has recently introduced a new ten-year strategy and this role will play an important part in bringing to life our vision of a world where everyone's experience of health matters.

Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation that supports science to build a healthier future for everyone. Wellcome Trust plans to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won't be solved by science alone.

We are looking for a Senior Data Insights Adviser to join our team on a permanent basis.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You will be working as part of the Strategy & Governance team, reporting to the Associate Director of Strategy & Governance.

You will be working with teams across Wellcome Trust and supporting Wellcome Collection teams to drive towards our collective strategic ambition in a consistent and joined-up way.

What will I be doing?

You will be the central point for all the data generated across Wellcome Collection, internally, across Wellcome or commissioned by contracted third parties.

You will be working with key stakeholders to define requirements and then lead on the use of qualitative and/or quantitative analysis skills to build easy to use data products and then clearly communicate your analysis delivering robust insights and recommendations.

Your work will help provide insights to develop our practice and aid decision making to achieve Wellcome Collection's vision of a world where everyone's experience of health matters.

We are looking for someone who can:

1. Address key problem(s) the organisation is trying to solve through scoping solutions to complex problems and/or shaping a workstream and its roadmap
2. Lead and contribute to projects, advising on and determining appropriate and innovative qualitative and/or quantitative methods and applying these to solve complex problems
3. Advocate for appropriate data governance that any issues with data quality or gaps are resolved with the appropriate Wellcome Collection teams
4. Shape, create and contribute to documentation, reports and dashboards to support the dissemination of research, analysis and insights
5. Effectively and clearly communicate technical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
6. Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.

Is this job for me?

You will have experience of working as a data manager within a museum or gallery context, overseeing data generated across the organisation and the formulation of insights.

This experience will have given you the skills to quickly build rapport and credibility with key stakeholders and have the ability to translate complex information to non-technical users.

You will be well organised and able to work under pressure, effectively prioritising, planning and meeting deadlines whilst delivering high-quality work.

You will have an inquiring mind and a creative and collaborative approach to solving complex problems.

You will be flexible and adaptive to different teams, working styles and environments, and quick to learn about complex teams and the ways they operate.

You will be inspired to work as part of a team that is dedicated to inclusive and sustainable practice.

We are looking for somebody who possesses:

1. Strong experience with all stages of the data analysis process (problem identification and structuring, data collection and storage, data investigation and exploratory analysis, data cleaning and manipulation, analysis and modelling, visualisation and communication)
2. Strong project management experience - from conception to development to delivery
3. Familiarity with KPIs and using data to understand performance
4. The ability to interrogate and interpret requirements from technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to advise them on the best approaches
5. Exceptional data analysis skills, including the ability to handle a variety of complex datasets

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates: Week commencing Monday, 27 January 2024

You can view the full job description on our website.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website.

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at.