Education Data Analyst — Insights & Quality (Hybrid)

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Education Specialist (Assessment Data Analyst) to strengthen assessment quality and decision-making through timely, accurate analytics. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid work between Pearson offices in London or Manchester with occasional travel.

You will design dashboards, reports and data products, interrogate datasets, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate questions into analytical outputs while ensuring data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Data analysis: able to explore and analyse assessment datasets using appropriate analytical techniques to draw defensible conclusions.
• Problem solving: able to define the problem, form testable hypotheses, identify the right data, and validate results under time pressure.
• Insight communication: able to translate analysis into clear narratives for non-technical audiences, including key messages, assumptions/limitations and recommended actions.
• Data quality: able to apply robust validation and maintain high standards of accuracy, version control and documentation.
• Technical capability: advanced Excel; SQL (BigQuery, MS SQL Server); Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep and Tableau Server.
• Stakeholder management: able to gather requirements, agree definitions/metrics, and work collaboratively across teams to deliver to fixed assessment timelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver timely quality-assurance reporting for assessment creation, marking quality, grading and awarding, post-results activity, and customer/competitor insights.
• Provide accurate and insightful analysis to PSQ stakeholders to support operational decision-making, including rapid-turnaround analysis during live series and deeper post-series evaluation.
• Interrogate a broad range of assessment datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and risks/opportunities; produce clear findings, root-cause hypotheses and recommended actions for review and decision.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of assessment processes, products and stakeholders, and apply this understanding to interpret data correctly, anticipate operational impacts, and tailor insights to audience needs.
• Design, build, document and maintain dashboards, reports and analytical outputs, including defining metrics, assuring data quality, and implementing improvements based on user feedback.
• Partner with stakeholders to capture business questions and reporting requirements; translate these into clear analytical approaches (e.g., definitions, data sources, logic, validation) and deliver fit-for-purpose outputs to agreed timelines.
• Act on insight by escalating risks and exceptions through agreed governance routes, proposing interventions, and tracking outcomes to support continuous improvement and auditability.
• Use appropriate analytical tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau) to extract, transform, validate and analyse complex datasets, creating efficient, automated and well-controlled analytical processes.
• Promote data literacy across assessment teams by providing guidance on interpretation of dashboards/metrics, defining standards for reporting and documentation, and supporting stakeholders to use data confidently in decision-making.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Insight communication

Data quality

Excel

SQL

Tableau

Stakeholder management

Tools

Tableau Desktop

Tableau Prep

Tableau Server

BigQuery

MS SQL Server

Excel

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist, Education Specialist (Assessment Data Analyst) to strengthen assessment quality and decision-making through timely, accurate analytics. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid work between Pearson offices in London or Manchester with occasional travel.

You will design dashboards, reports and data products, interrogate datasets, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate questions into analytical outputs while ensuring data quality and governance.