Career Staff: Student Policy & Insight Analyst

The Role

We’re looking for someone to join our Student Influence team at Sheffield SU as a Student Policy and Insight Analyst. In this newly created, proactive role, you will help move the organisation away from assertion-based advocacy toward evidence-led representation. Working directly under the Director of Student Influence, you will be responsible for auditing, gathering, and analysing data from various internal and external sources. You will translate these complex data sets into clear, accessible insight reports and policy briefings that equip elected Officers and student leaders to make highly credible, substantiated arguments when representing student voices to the University, regional partners, and national bodies.

Key duties in this role include:

• Data Auditing and Synthesis: Audit, map, and synthesise existing qualitative and quantitative data sources across the organisation, including NSS results, course rep feedback, and Student Advice Centre casework trends.
• Producing Insight Reports: Generate regular student experience insight reports to serve as primary reference points for Officers in stakeholder meetings.
• Shaping Voice Mechanisms: Ground Sheffield SU’s democratic mechanisms (including the Student Union Council and the Sheffield Student Assembly) in real student data to ensure sessions respond to student centric concerns.
• Developing Feedback Channels: Build and maintain accessible, continuous feedback mechanisms for students.
• Drafting Consultation Responses: Monitor relevant policy developments and lead on drafting high-quality, evidence-based responses to regional and national consultations from bodies like the Office for Students and local council.
• Campaign and Priority Embedding: Collaborate closely with the Voice and Advocacy team to ensure that gathered student insights are actively embedded into campaign planning and officer priorities.
• Demonstrating Impact: Produce clear impact statements for Sheffield student leaders that successfully capture project reach and outcomes to demonstrate organisational value to external partners, funders, and the University.
• The full list of duties can be found in the job description below

Application process

Please review our Job Description

You can submit your application by clicking apply, completing our application form outlining and relevant skills, experience and why you are interested in the role. Following the closing date stated on our job adverts, applications will be shortlisted against the criteria outlined in the person specification and job description.

We will contact you by email to let you know whether or not you have been shortlisted to participate in the next stage of the selection process.

If you have any questions about the role, application process or working for Students' Union then please don't hesitate to get touch su-people@sheffield.ac.uk

Location: The University of Sheffield Students' Union

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Contract Type: Full Time; Fixed Term (18 months with possibility of extension)

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Salary: £30,637 (C1)

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Specific Hours: 35hrs per week

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Closing Date: Friday 19th June 2026 (11:59pm)

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In-person Interviews/Assessments:
Week Commencing Monday 29th June 2026

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Start Date: As soon as possible

Details
£30,367.00 per year
Location: Sheffield, S10 2TG, GB