Description Vulnerable Children’s Data Lead Permanent Grade 6 - £54,495- £64,811 - Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review Working 36.5 hours per week (hybrid working – typically 1-2 days a week in the Council House and able to attend key meetings across Birmingham in person when required) Do you want to make a difference to over 200,000 children and young people and their families in Birmingham? In the Children and Families Directorate at Birmingham City Council, we are looking for a bold and ambitious Vulnerable Children’s Data Lead. We’re embarking on a one-of-a-kind improvement journey that will affect families across Birmingham. We’re putting evidence and a data-driven approach at the heart of this improvement journey to make sure we understand our citizens’ backgrounds, needs and views, and can design and deliver services that allow children and young people in Birmingham to thrive. We’re looking for a dynamic and creative analytical leader to lead a team of analysts to produce insightful and impactful evidence that will lead to better outcomes for our children and young people. About the Role In this role, you’ll provide strategic leadership, vision and direction to digital, data, and intelligence services supporting vulnerable children, including Virtual School, Attendance and Exclusion, Alternative Provision, Children out of School, and Education Safeguarding. You’ll champion cross-directorate collaboration to identify “out of sight” children and embed data-driven decision-making. You’ll develop and implement digital and data improvement strategies, establish data governance frameworks, and ensure statutory compliance, accuracy, and availability of data for vulnerable children. You’ll oversee the governance, upkeep, and user engagement of digital tools, including case systems and AI technologies, ensuring effective support for education services. You’ll ensure accurate submission of statutory returns, develop user-centred business intelligence, performance dashboards, and advanced analytics to aid strategic decision-making. You’ll facilitate collaborative engagement with stakeholders, generate actionable insights by incorporating child voice analysis, performance metrics, and predictive analytics, and oversee secure data transfer processes in compliance with legal, ethical, and governance standards. You’ll represent vulnerable children’s data and intelligence in cross-partnership forums, ensuring visibility and influence in multi-agency decision-making and strategic planning. You’ll lead the Directorate’s Performance Clinic for Vulnerable Children, ensuring safeguarding and vulnerable children’s data is central to performance discussions and service accountability. This role fundamentally supports the improvement of outcomes for children across Birmingham. The data, intelligence and information your team collects and analyses will underpin education strategies and innovation programmes, so this is a fantastic opportunity to work on projects that benefit young people and their communities. As such, everything you do will be evidence-based, geared towards continuous improvement, and compliant with data protection legislation. About You An established professional with a degree-level qualification in a relevant subject (e.g., data analysis, research, or a related field) or equivalent experience, you’ll have substantial project management experience and excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative social research methods. You’ll have proven team leadership and management experience in designing, developing, and implementing information and data management systems, including data collection, collation, analysis, and reporting. Ideally you will have experience working in similar roles supporting services supporting vulnerable children. As a leader, you’ll be experienced, driven, creative and a passionate advocate for children and young people. You’ll have experience of building and maintaining effective working relationships with a wide range of colleagues, stakeholders, and external organisations. You’ll set clear direction and objectives for your team, using your influencing skills to inspire, empower, and motivate staff. You’ll work to instil a culture that values compassion, high-performance, and inclusivity, shaping and developing the skills of your team so that every person can get the most from their role. This is a great opportunity to use your skills and experience to ensure timely and trusted evidence is central to improvements we are delivering for Birmingham families and keeping our children safe. To be part of this dynamic and growing team, please get in touch. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim. Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim. Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application. For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing&64;birmingham.gov.uk A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken. Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Job Description and Person Specification