Organisation: London Sport

Salary: £45,900 per annum

Location: 2 plus days per week in our central London office

Contract type: Permanent (Full time)

Closing date: 19 October 2025

Interview date: 4 November 2025

Job Description

The Senior Data Manager sits within our Insight & Impact (I&I) Directorate. The Directorate brings together research, data, evaluation and storytelling so decisions are evidence-led, and the impact of our work is clear to partners, funders and communities.

Within I&I, the Insight & Data team provides trusted data, analytics and platforms that power programme delivery, place-based priorities and our Pan-London Research & Data Hub.

You’ll report to the Head of Insight & Data, and work alongside the Data & Analytics Lead and the Product Manager. You will coordinate with colleagues in the wider I&I Directorate (including Impact and Insight teams) and partners across and beyond the sport and physical activity sector.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and engage elements of the London Sport data strategy, including strategic themes, Research & Data Hub, Place and Organisation Excellence.
• Own the quarterly plan and delivery cadence, coordinating stakeholders across themes, places, internal reporting, and the Pan-London Research & Data Hub.
• Drive adoption through communications, training, and usage tracking; understanding how our activities are valued by our stakeholders.
• Create a roadmap for data collection and analysis that contributes most to London Sport Outcomes.
• Manage delivery of the data development roadmap and prioritised backlog across multiple data workstreams.
• Lead stakeholder engagement across internal teams and external partners.
• Operate the Research & Data Hub: plan releases, communications, training, and track usage analytics to grow adoption.
• Ensure releases meet governance requirements (data quality checks, metadata/lineage, RBAC, retention) defined and signed off by the Data and Analytics Lead.
• Uncover new opportunities to use data for priority places, underserved communities, and our universal offer.
• Support commercialisation opportunities in line with our diversification of income strategy.
• Provide inputs to budget forecasts and coordinate vendors logistics (data budget is owned/approved by the Data and Analytics Lead).
• Report progress via KPIs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering data/analytics projects or multi-stream programmes end-to-end.
• Strong project/program management: agile/iterative delivery, estimation, dependency management, KPI management.
• A confident and impactful communicator and presenter.
• Proven stakeholder management and change/adoption leadership.
• Experience setting RACI and Definition of Ready/Done, embedding governance gates in delivery.
• Experience operating a data/BI product (analytics hub/portal/report suite) with adoption metrics.
• Strong data literacy for planning and adoption (interpret BI usage metrics, understand data definitions and quality checks, and partner effectively with the Data and Analytics Lead).
• A knowledge of how to work with funders, local authorities, policy makers, charities and/or non-profit purpose driven organisations.
• Experience in public/charity/sport or broader social-impact settings.

Deadline for applications: 19 October 2025. To apply, please visit: https://careers.londonsport.org/job/773003. If you have any questions about the role or London Sport, please email hr@londonsport.org.