Data Analyst

Contract: Permanent, full-time
Location: London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 9 December 2024

About the role

As a Data Analyst, you will ensure compliance with company policies and procedures relating to data protection, information security, health and safety, and safeguarding within the Validations department at Trinity. You will check and analyse result data, validate test results for both traditional and digital tests, and provide essential psychometric support and statistical analysis for assessments, which is a key part of the role. You will also gather, clean, collate, and analyse assessment data and draft reports for a variety of purposes while assisting the Head of Validation in related projects or tasks.

• Day-to-day implementation of validation processes (including date checking, statistical analysis, and so on) to generate valid and reliable results on time for assessment products.
• Working with the data scientist and data engineer, regularly implementing analytical processes and producing reports on test quality, item quality, candidate performance, examiner performance, etc.
• Working with the Data Scientist and Data Engineer, assisting with or conducting data analysis, draughting reports.
• Supporting business tenders, product audits, recognitions, and so forth with data, statistics, and analytical evidence, and visualising data to address ad-hoc requests from stakeholders.
• Working with the data scientist and data engineer, engaging in the development, review, and improvement of the analytical methodologies, models, methods, and processes for new or existing assessment products.

About you

• Degree educated preferably with a focus on educational assessment, psychometrics, language testing or statistics.
• Working knowledge of educational assessments, especially in high-stakes English language tests.
• Proficient in MS Excel.
• Ability to work under pressure with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to prioritise and time-manage tasks to meet multiple deadlines.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work as part of a team.

Desirable

• A higher degree (Master's or PhD) in educational assessment, psychometrics, language testing, statistics, or quantitative social science studies
• Statistical and psychometric knowledge
• Knowledge and techniques of Winsteps and Facets
• Project management knowledge and/or experience

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation.

As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private health insurance, pension scheme, regular social events, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, free access to Trinity examinations and continuous training and development, plus more. 

Our commitment

Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. 

We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. 

Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page. 

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. 

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

Trinity College London will collect and use your personal information for our recruitment process in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice. Trinity College London will hold candidate data on file for no more than six months from application submission. If you want your information to be removed earlier, please contact us directly. If we want to hold your information beyond the six months, we will contact you to get your consent.

Our data protection policy can be viewed in full here.