Data Solutions Project Manager

Summary:

Class Technology Solutions (CTS) is a leading IT support and solutions provider, specialising in the education sector. As a Microsoft Gold Solutions Partner, we pride ourselves on delivering cutting-edge managed IT services, helping schools and educational institutions thrive with innovative technology solutions.

We’re undergoing an exciting period of transformation, building the foundations for long-term, sustainable growth. This is a key moment to join us and play a meaningful role as part of our expanding commercial team.

This role is based within one of our clients sites.

Purpose:

To serve as the School Trust’s primary architect for data strategy and systems integration. The Data Solutions Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the school’s digital infrastructure is not just functional, but intelligent, interconnected, and secure.

This role sits at the intersection of technical engineering and project management. acting as the pivotal link within the School’s IT Services team, tasked with transforming complex information into accessible tools for staff. By combining database administration, custom development, and governance, the role will eliminate ine?ciencies and ensure that decision-making and operations across the School Trust are grounded in accurate data intelligence.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Database Management

• To hold principal responsibility for the con?guration, health, and output of the Trust’s MIS.
• To ensure the system functions as the authoritative backbone of the Trust’s operations, maintaining ?delity of information.
• To oversee and improve the ?ow of information between core databases and peripheral platforms. The role holder will diagnose and resolve synchronisation errors to ensure a seamless user experience.

Data Analysis

• To support staff to interpret data effectively by transforming complex data across the School’s systems into actionable insights in the form of summaries, dashboards and visualisations.
• To provide information to the School’s Senior Leadership Team, ensuring data is presented in a format suitable for strategic review or reporting

Strategic Project Management

• To take ownership of data projects from inception to completion. Identifying the speci?c needs of a project, de?ning the deliverables, and carving out a strategic plan for implementation.
• To adopt an evidence-based approach to innovation. Designing and running pilot schemes for new systems or work?ows, rigorously evaluating their success against agreed KPIs before authorising wider rollout.
• To ensure that technical solutions are sustainable. Managing the formal handover of completed projects to operational staff, providing the necessary documentation and training to ensure the solution functions independently of your direct management.

Programming

• To deploy bespoke code to extend the functionality of off-the-shelf software and School database systems.
• To identify manual, repetitive administrative tasks and engineer automated replacements.
• To leverage the Google Workspace ecosystem and Gemini AI to build intelligent agents and scripts that augment human capability.

Data Protection

• To act as the primary subject matter expert and technical advisor to the School CFOO (the Statutory DPO). Handling the day-to-day management of data protection, conducting the necessary research and the operational groundwork to ensure the Trust meets its obligations.
• To design and implement the technical systems that enable the CFOO to maintain oversight. This includes building registers for data processing activities and robust work?ows for reporting data breaches.
• To manage the operational delivery of SARs. Design and execute a modern, technology-led work?ow to search, collate, and redact information e?ciently, presenting the ?nal package to the CFOO for sign-off.
• To lead the technical side of compliance by conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new projects. Ensuring that privacy controls are "hard-coded" into systems before they are deployed.

Maintaining the Staff Intranet

• To manage the lifecycle and technical structure of the School Staff Intranet site, ensuring this platform remains the primary, up-to-date repository for operational knowledge and internal communication.
• To work with departments across the Trust to ensure their intranet presence is current, engaging, and functionally useful for staff.

Training and Professional Development

• To train and support staff in the use of the Trust systems including the production of training and support materials as necessary

Employee Benefits

• Free onsite parking
• Free lunch during term time
• Free gym membership (after probationary period)
• Sage employee benefits
• Death in Service benefit
• Company Pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave (not including Bank Holidays) increasing with length of service
• Opportunity to work on diverse and challenging projects

Skills & Requirements:

Essential:

• Deep technical understanding of Google Workspace administration, iSAMS (or equivalent enterprise MIS), and SQL Queries.
• Ability to translate datasets into clear, actionable visual reports
• Demonstrated success in managing technical projects from conception to deployment.
• Experience managing the operational aspects of GDPR compliance (SARs, DPIAs) and advising senior leadership.
• Experience curating and managing a corporate intranet or knowledge base.
• Ability to explain complex data concepts to non-technical stakeholders without jargon.
• Able to both work independently using your own initiative and to collaborate as part of a team
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills
• Be a professional learner who acquires knowledge and skills that allow you to keep abreast of innovations, emerging technologies and the practice of other organisations.
• High levels of discretion and integrity when handling confidential data

All posts are subject to the receipt of a satisfactory DBS certi?cate, references, medical checks, proof of identity and copies of quali?cations, where a requirement of the role.