The National Lottery Community Fund

Digital, Grant Making, Recruitment, Senior Recruitment

Head of Data Analysis

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes almost £500m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of the National Lottery. With the funding given supporting a wide range of projects across health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects, grants can range from as little as £500 to multi million pound programmes.

The scale and diversity of The Fund’s activity produces grant-making information of exceptional scope, richness and complexity. This certainly brings its own challenges, but it also means that there are very significant opportunities to help catalyse change and to make the most of this information for the benefit of their customers.

They came to Prospectus with an exciting opportunity for a Head of Data Analysis to join the Information Team. The Team has a UK-wide remit to transform the way they think about and use their data through an ambitious programme of change being developed within a fast-moving and demanding information environment.

This is a high-profile job, leading a small, highly performing, specialist Information team, the appointed candidate would be the centre of focus for the integrity, consistency, accuracy and application of information about their funding. The postholder will use the Fund’s new information systems and leverage innovative text mining technologies to make the most of their data reporting system and leverage text-mining technologies to make the most of existing data. Making this information accessible was critical to encouraging the sense of enquiry and curiosity that underpins better decision-making.

The successfully appointed candidate was a customer focused leader with a proven history of delivering value to customers and the business through leading, developing and using customer focused insight. They have considerable experience in developing colleagues to maximise their potential and is recognised as someone who motivates colleagues across the business to deliver key business priorities through strong collaboration.