Web & Data Analytics Executive

Job title:

Web & Data Analytics Executive

Company

Edinburgh Napier University

Job description

As the #1 Modern University in Scotland (World University Rankings 2025), Edinburgh Napier University strives to deliver the best teaching, to the widest range of students who can benefit from it, in ways that are appropriate to the needs of students and employers.Our Marketing and External Relations department is responsible for building our reputation, promoting our academic excellence, sharing our student experience, highlighting our research and innovation, driving our fundraising ambition and ensuring we engage with our alumni.Currently, we are recruiting a Web & Data Analytics Executive to support the ongoing development and improvement of the University website in line with the Marketing and External Relations Strategy, and enhance key user journeys by providing analytics, making recommendations, and liaising with colleagues on implementation.The Role:As Web & Data Analytics Executive, you will have the opportunity to use your experience of working with complex websites and Content Management Systems (CMS) to administer the day-to-day running of the Edinburgh Napier University site, supporting internal clients with troubleshooting/training and escalating to developers in Information Services (IS) where appropriate.Your advanced understanding of Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager will serve you well as you use these tools to interpret data that will inform digital improvement projects, working closely with the UX Design and Developer teams to support scenario testing and implementation of improvements.We anticipate that you will have had experience of working within a communications/marketing environment and be used to delivering on agreed objectives and operational priorities. As such, you will also have the chance to use these skills to create a measurement plan for the Marketing team and provide data visualisation reports in Looker Studio to attribute performance efforts.If you have existing experience as a web analyst or equivalent role, with a genuine interest in understanding the behaviour of people visiting websites, where people are coming from and how to improve their user experience, then we would love to hear from you.What we will need from you:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience
• Substantial experience of working with complex websites and CMS
• Advanced knowledge of using Google Analytics and complex data sets to make website improvements
• Experience working and debugging with Google Tag Manager
• Experience of governance standards and cookie management tools
• Demonstrable up-to-date knowledge of web and digital technologies and developments

For a full role description please .Benefits we offer:We offer 41 days annual leave (includes bank holidays), a generous pension scheme (17.6%), flexible working and professional development opportunities. Further information regarding our benefits can be viewed .Additional information:Interviews: Week commencing 5th May 2025The University holds Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champion status. More details can be found . We are a flexible Employer.The University may be able to sponsor international workers in this role. Check the salary criteria on . Contact us to discuss individual circumstances on .£30,805 to £37,174 (depending on experience)

Expected salary

£30805 – 37174 per year

Location

Edinburgh

Job date

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:18:59 GMT

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