Head of Data, Systems and Impact
Head of Data, Systems and Impact
The Premier League Foundation is seeking to appoint an experienced Head of Data, Systems and Impact to lead the organisation’s data strategy and oversee the systems that support effective grant management, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and impact reporting. This pivotal leadership role will ensure the Foundation generates high-quality insights, demonstrates impact and value for money, and makes evidence-informed decisions that strengthen programmes, partnerships, and organisational performance.
The preferred candidate will act as the strategic lead for the Foundation’s Salesforce platform, ensuring it is optimised, well-governed, and fully embedded across the organisation and our network of football club charities. They will oversee all data, systems and impact functions, including the internal Salesforce team and the Impact & Insights team, ensuring the Foundation collects, manages, and uses data effectively, and is able to demonstrate impact to funders, partners, and wider stakeholders.
The preferred candidate will act as the strategic lead for the Foundation’s Salesforce platform, ensuring it is optimised, well-governed, and fully embedded across the organisation and our network of football club charities. They will oversee all data, systems and impact functions, including the internal Salesforce team and the Impact & Insights team, ensuring the Foundation collects, manages, and uses data effectively, and is able to demonstrate impact to funders, partners, and wider stakeholders.
Reporting to the Chief Executive, this new role will lead a multidisciplinary team and provide direct line management to the Senior Impact and Insight Manager and the Senior Salesforce Manager. It offers an exciting opportunity for a collaborative, strategic and technically confident leader who is motivated by enabling social impact through robust systems, strong data governance, and meaningful insight.
Who we are
The Premier League Foundation was established in 2010 to distribute funding provided by the Premier League and its partners to professional football club charities across England and Wales, supporting them in their delivery in thousands of community venues and schools across the country. A total of 106 club charities are supported across the Premier League, English Football League, and National League.
More than 2.5 million individuals have benefitted from the charity, which aims to foster positive sporting, health, personal and education opportunities for children, young people, and the wider community.
The Premier League Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish. We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly encourage applications from women, people from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQ+ people, and disabled people.
Our hybrid-working model also allows you some variety on your place of work, offering you the chance to work from home on some days each week. You will attend the office or site visits in line with our company policy. All staff liaise closely with their line manager to manage their time appropriately and according to their work and team requirements.
The Role
- Lead the development and delivery of the Premier League Foundation’s data strategy, ensuring that data collection, governance, analysis and reporting processes are robust, efficient, and aligned with organisational priorities.
- Oversee the systems that enable effective grant management, monitoring, evaluation and learning across the Foundation and the network of football club charities.
- Provide strategic leadership for the Foundation’s Salesforce platform, ensuring it is well‑governed, optimised, secure and consistently adopted across the organisation and the network of club charities.
- Lead and line manage the Senior Impact and Insight Manager and Senior Salesforce Manager, fostering a high-performing team and a culture of shared learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure the Foundation’s data, systems and processes support high‑quality monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), enabling strong programme design, evidence generation and impact reporting.
- Drive high‑quality, timely and transparent reporting across the Foundation, ensuring rigorous accountability for impact and clear articulation of value, credibility, and outcomes, including strategic leadership of the Foundation’s social return on investment (SROI) approach.
- Manage department budget and lead the procurement, commissioning, and performance management of external suppliers, partners, and system developers, ensuring robust due diligence, value for money, compliance, and alignment with organisational standards.
- Act as the Foundation’s lead for data protection, providing strategic oversight of information governance, ensuring high‑quality and consistent programme data, and assuring the safe, ethical, and lawful use of data in line with legislation and best practice.
- Lead the Foundation’s Data and Impact Working Group, upholding governance standards and ensuring timely, high‑quality papers, reports and recommendations are prepared and shared with members.
- Work with the Chief Executive and senior leaders to establish meaningful KPIs, performance frameworks and impact indicators that reflect organisational and funder priorities.
- Ensure effective processes are in place to capture and analyse data to demonstrate outcomes, value for money and broader social impact.
- Oversee the development and enhancement of dashboards, automated reports and analytical tools that support performance management and organisational insight.
- Act as the senior relationship manager for the Foundation’s Salesforce Partner, overseeing roadmaps, procurement, contract management, and technical assurance.
- Translate organisational and stakeholder needs into intuitive, efficient, and user-centred system configurations.
- Champion innovation and best practice in CRM, grant management, MEL, data governance and analytics, including exploring and evaluating AI‑enabled approaches.
- Support the network of football club charities by providing guidance on data quality, system usage, monitoring frameworks and reporting requirements.
- Ensure teams have the skills, training and tools needed to use Salesforce and related systems effectively, driving organisation‑wide adoption and capability.
- Monitor system performance, adoption metrics, and data quality indicators, identifying opportunities for improvement and working with Premier League colleagues to benchmark practice.
- Keep up to date with developments in data governance, MEL, CRM systems, and sector best practice, adapting approaches as the organisation evolves.
- Represent the Premier League Foundation professionally with internal and external partners, always reflecting the organisation’s values.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role in support of the Foundation’s objectives.
Role Requirement
- Education to degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience in data strategy, MEL, CRM, or system management roles.
- Significant experience leading data, evaluation, or systems functions within a complex organisation, ideally within a charity, public sector, or grant‑making context.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing external suppliers, with the ability to balance strategic leadership and hands‑on problem solving.
- Understanding of Salesforce architecture, governance, declarative configuration, automation tools (e.g., Flow, Process Builder), reporting and dashboard creation.
- Proven expertise in monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies, including development of theories of change, KPIs, impact frameworks, and assessment of SROI or similar value‑for‑money approaches.
- Strong knowledge of data protection legislation (including UK GDPR) and best practice in data governance, with experience embedding compliant and ethical data management processes.
- Experience managing large datasets and complex information flows, with excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Strong interpersonal, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work confidently across all levels of an organisation.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts and analytical findings into accessible insights for diverse audiences.
- Strong project management skills, including delivering system change projects, managing competing priorities and coordinating cross‑functional work.
- Experience chairing committees or working groups including responsibility for preparing, reviewing, and sharing timely papers and reports.
- A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding best practice.
- High levels of computer proficiency, particularly in Salesforce, Microsoft Office, and analytical tools; advanced Excel and data handling skills essential.
- Experience with Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack, grant management systems or sector‑standard monitoring and evaluation tools is desirable.
- Willingness to travel within England and Wales as required.
- A satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
The Premier League Foundation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. All appointments will be made based on merit.
Our commitment to safeguarding includes implementing robust safer recruitment procedures to assess the suitability of individuals applying for roles that involve work with children and adults who are or may be at risk of harm.
Our commitment to safeguarding includes implementing robust safer recruitment procedures to assess the suitability of individuals applying for roles that involve work with children and adults who are or may be at risk of harm.
To apply please visit our
careers page
and apply with your CV and a cover letter. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 16 March 2026.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact
recruitment@premierleague.com.
About The Premier League
The Premier League is home to some of the most competitive and compelling football in the world. The League and its Clubs use the power and popularity of the competition to inspire fans, communities and partners in the UK and across the world. The Premier League brings people together from all backgrounds. It is a competition for everyone, everywhere and is available to watch in over 900 million homes in 189 countries.
We have a wide variety of responsibilities. These include organising the competition and its Handbook as well as managing the centralised broadcast and commercial rights. The work we do in conjunction with the Clubs also goes far beyond the 90 minutes. We support and provide a framework for youth development, we protect the organisation’s intellectual property, support the wider game and community programmes, undertake international development work and liaise with governing bodies and other leagues.
The Premier League is an equal opportunities employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish. We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly encourage applications from women, people from minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people.
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