Insight Officer

Are you passionate about creating long-lasting change for local communities? Do you know how to use data and insight to tell a compelling story ? If so, If so, then you might be interested in joining our team as Insight Officer. Working across our team, you will lead our measurement, evaluation and learning work and support colleagues in effectively measuring, evaluating and showing the impact of our work.

Job Info

• Salary: £27,500 (Band 2)

• Hours: 37 hours per week

• Contract: Fixed-term (to March 2027)

• Location: Delapré Abbey, London Road, Northampton NN4 8AW

• Closing date: 22nd September

Contact information

Contact name: Martin Barnwell

Contact email: martin.barnwell@northamptonshiresport.org

Contact telephone: 07834 495842

About us

Northamptonshire Sport is a leading physical activity, health and wellbeing charity based in Northamptonshire, delivering national initiatives locally. We collaborate with local and national partners to change the system, influencing strategy, policy and approaches, tackling inequalities and supporting communities to change lives through widening participation in physical activity. We also deliver sport participation events, physical activity programmes and wellbeing projects.

About the role

You will lead Northamptonshire Sport's insight and evaluation function, particularly our Place-Based working, ensuring that we are able to use insight and local intelligence to inform decision making.

You will support our team and wider partnership to use processes and systems to effectively measure and evaluate our work, demonstrate outputs, outcomes and impact and put our learning into practice.

About you

You will have experience research including identification of good practice, data analysis and use of performance management tools to report on outputs, outcomes and impact. You will have excellent understanding of a range of qualitative and quantitative data collections methods and the ability to collect and interpret high-quality data and to use compelling narratives to demonstrate the impact of individual projects

You will have excellent IT skills, with the ability to present data and other insight in the most appropriate way, using data visualisation tools such as PowerBI.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 22nd September

Interviews will be held on Friday 4th October

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

For an informal discussion about this post contact Chris Holmes 07393 003948

Northamptonshire Sport recognises the positive value of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Applicants who apply under the Disability Confident scheme are guaranteed an interview if the minimum criteria score is met.

If you have a disability that makes it difficult to apply online, don't worry – there are other ways to get your application seen. Contact hr@northamptonshiresport.org