Reporting Manager

King's College London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

King’s College London is seeking a Senior Reporting Manager to lead the Data & Reporting team within Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement. You will manage a team delivering clear, reliable reports to support informed decision-making and turn data into practical insights for senior leaders.

This is a full-time role (35 hours) with hybrid working and a minimum of 40% in the office. You will drive SQL governance, collaborate with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and contribute to planning, performance reviews

Qualifications

• Significant experience with a fundraising CRM in a technical/database role.
• Strong SQL proficiency for querying and transforming data.
• Experience building reports with Power BI or Tableau.
• Ability to communicate complex information to senior leadership.
• Experience leading and managing a team.
• Experience using project management techniques to enable change.
• Proven ability to manage conflicting deadlines with strong planning.
• Experience cross-functionally delivering system/process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead reporting within Data & Reporting team to meet P&A needs.
• Manage a team producing clear, reliable reports for decision-making.
• Turn data into actionable insights for diverse audiences.
• Contribute to annual planning and departmental reviews.
• Lead SQL governance, code review and documentation.
• Collaborate across Data & Reporting and wider department.
• Ensure fundraising CRM (Dynamics) supports engagement programmes.

Skills

SQL expertise

Power BI

Tableau

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

CRM knowledge (Dynamics)

Job description

The Senior Reporting Manager will lead reporting within the Data & Reporting team, ensuring the Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement (P&A) team's reporting needs are met now and in the future. They will manage a team that produces clear, reliable reports to support informed decision-making, turning data into practical, relevant insights tailored to different audiences, including senior leaders. They will contribute to annual planning and objective setting within the Data & Reporting team, ensuring reporting and integration goals are both ambitious and realistic, and they will play a key role in quarterly and annual departmental performance reviews. Given the current reliance on SQL, the Senior Reporting Manager will lead the SQL governance group, making sure reporting code is reliable, peer reviewed, clearly documented, and fit for purpose. By building strong networks both inside and outside of the organisation, they will also take a long-term view, ensuring that the technologies we use, and the practices we adopt, equip the department to take advantage of emerging opportunities. Through working with others in the Data & Reporting team and across the wider department, they will ensure the fundraising CRM (Microsoft Dynamics) continues to support our ambitious philanthropic and alumni engagement programmes. This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract. P&A has a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of 40% of time in the office. Typically, this equates to two days per week, but we’re very happy for colleagues to be in more frequently if they so wish. The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance. In P&A we want to build a diverse team, which represents the communities served by the organisations we support. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements, including part-time, compressed hours and/or job shares, as appropriate and in the context of the business needs associated with the role. This roles with have two interview stages, a standard skills-based interview followed (for up to two appointable candidates) by a Core Values interview. First stage interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 7th September 2026. Core Values interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 14th September 2026.

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working with a fundraising CRM in a technical or database management capacity
• Strong technical proficiency in SQL for querying and data transformation
• Significant experience of developing reports using tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Experience of leading and managing a team
• Experience of using project management techniques to deliver change
• Proven ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities, with strong planning skills to deliver an ambitious programme of work
• Significant experience of, and a strong enthusiasm for, working cross-functionally to deliver improvements to systems or processes

Desirable criteria

• Experience of using Agile project management frameworks and Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric
• Experience of using DAX to develop complex Power BI measures
• Knowledge of data integration solutions such as KingswaySoft and SSIS
• Experience of using other components of the Microsoft Power Platform to support data transformation

Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement (P&A) raises philanthropic funds in support of King's College London and engages with the university's worldwide alumni community. We are proud to enable the work of colleagues across the university and its health partners, helping them serve society through world-leading education, research and healthcare. Our activity includes a partnership with the Maudsley Charity in support of children's mental health and initiatives between the university's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.

We are entering an exciting period as a team. Our work is identified as a key enabler of the new King's Strategy 2030, with associated ambitions that include preparing for our next major philanthropic and engagement campaign. This will accelerate and energise our work in support of the University’s mission to be ‘in service to society through academic excellence’ - be that through exceptional, impact-led research; ensuring our students are supported to thrive during their time at King’s and beyond; or by helping the university to invest over the long-term into its people, ideas and infrastructure. We plan to deepen and scale engagement with our global alumni community, donors and other supporters, mobilising them behind these shared priorities. We are strongly values-driven with a focus on sustaining a strong and supportive culture, which we see as key to creating a successful team that can realise these ambitions.

More on King’s College London For almost 200 years, King’s has been a place where ideas turn into action. From revealing the structure of DNA to reimagining nursing, from advances in medicine, law and the study of war and peace to shaping culture and public debate, our work has always been guided by a belief that knowledge should serve society. Over our history, King’s has been home to 14 Nobel Prize winners, and to scholars whose ideas and leadership have shaped thinking, policy and practice around the world. King’s has always been a place where knowledge is put to work for the benefit of others. King’s College London is a world-renowned university that delivers exceptional education and world-leading research. We’re committed to creating positive and sustainable change in our local and global communities through outstanding education, impactful research, and genuine service to society. King’s Strategy 2030 sets out how we take that purpose forward, with four key priorities including student success in and beyond university, investment in research and education excellence that responds to the changing world, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, and delivering sustainable finances for a secure future. More information on King’s, its purpose and strategy can be found here, At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

Grade and Salary : £53,947 to £63,350 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance Job ID : 155005