Head of Data & Impact

<h1>Head of Data & Impact</h1> <h2>About Babyzone</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Babyzone is an innovative and fast-growing UK early childhood charity. We run free, open-access community hubs for families with children aged 0–5 in areas of high deprivation, with no booking or referral needed.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Since launching in 2019, we have grown to 14 hubs across England, Wales and Scotland, welcomed more than 100,000 parent and child visits — over 70% from the most deprived communities — and we are on track to reach 20 hubs by the end of 2027.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Our hubs are evidence-informed spaces, with programmes co-developed alongside families, practitioners and world-leading researchers, then rigorously evaluated and improved. More than 300 partner organisations — including NHS teams, local authorities and specialist charities — co-locate in our hubs to create a joined-up local system for families.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">We hold research partnerships with leading universities and are building the definitive evidence base for what works in the early years.</p> <h2>The Opportunity</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Backed by significant new multi-year philanthropic investment, we are building the data and evaluation infrastructure that enables Babyzone to evaluate and improve its work at scale — capturing what happens across every hub, tracking outcomes for children and families over time, and translating the evidence into national influence.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">This is a new, senior role to lead that work. We are looking for a genuinely high-calibre data scientist and leader who can elevate everything we do to measure activity, capture insight, evidence impact, and strengthen monitoring and evaluation across the whole organisation — while working at the frontier of what AI makes possible.</p> <h2>Purpose of the Role</h2> <p class="isSelectedEnd">As Head of Data & Impact, you will own how Babyzone measures its activity, understands its families, and evidences its impact across every hub and central function.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">You will build our data infrastructure end to end, from frontline capture to longitudinal outcome tracking, and establish a modern, AI-enabled approach to analysis, evaluation and reporting.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">This is a senior leadership role with a hands-on, build-it mindset: as comfortable architecting a data pipeline or standing up an AI workflow as coaching a frontline team in a hub.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">You will be the internal counterpart to our external academic advisers and Research & Impact Advisory Board, translating rigorous methods into practical systems, and turning our evidence into influence with funders and policymakers.</p> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <h3>Data Infrastructure and Engineering</h3> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Own the design, build and running of Babyzone's data platform end to end — from parent-facing capture, such as QR-code attendance and engagement, through to integrated longitudinal records that follow families and child outcomes over time, from infancy through to a Good Level of Development and beyond.</li> <li>Establish a modern, reliable data stack covering ingestion, integration across hubs and hundreds of partner touchpoints, storage, modelling and dashboards that give the organisation a single, trusted view.</li> <li>Build data quality, security and governance into systems by design.</li> </ul> <h3>Measurement, Evaluation and Impact</h3> <ul data-spread="false"> <li>Lead Babyzone's monitoring and evaluation approach across the organisation, defining the outcomes, indicators and methods that credibly demonstrate what our work a