Job Title: Insight & Influence Coordinator.
Department: Insight & Influence.
Job Type: Part-time.
Hours: 21 hours per week, 0.6 FTE.
Salary: £16,666 per annum, based on a full-time equivalent salary of £27,777.
Role summary: The Insight & Influence Coordinator supports the delivery of Students’ Union research and transforming this into insight reps, communities and the organisation can use to influence change. Activity, helping the organisation understand students’ experiences, needs and priorities.
Using community organising principles, the postholder will gather, analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative evidence. They will combine data with students’ lived experiences to identify trends, explore emerging issues and produce clear insights that support representation, campaigning, service development and organisational decision-making.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Research & Evidence Gathering
• Design and deliver inclusive research activities, including surveys, focus groups and consultations, to understand student experiences, needs and priorities.
• Gather and manage evidence from a range of sources, ensuring research is representative, ethical and compliant with data protection requirements.
• Build a robust evidence base that supports community organising, representation and organisational decision-making.
• Support the Union in responding to University consultations through evidence gathering and consultation write ups.
• Keep up-to-date with local or national consultations or policy changes relating to the student experience and sharing this with relevant stakeholders.
Data Analysis & Insight Generation
• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, themes, emerging issues and opportunities.
• Transform data into clear, meaningful insights through reports, dashboards, presentations and briefings.
• Monitor key measures of student experience and support evidence-informed decision making across the Students' Union.
Storytelling & Communication
• Combine data, research findings and student stories to create a rich understanding of the student experience.
• Translate complex evidence into compelling, accessible narratives for a range of stakeholders ranging from students to key University stakeholders and strategic projects.
• Ensure student perspectives and lived experiences are accurately represented through insight outputs and communications.
• Deliver insight to elected representatives and student communities for evidence-based influence in decision-making spaces.
• Work with the Communications Coordinator to incorporate insight-based storytelling into communications pieces for students.
Student Researcher Support & Development
• Provide day-to-day line management, supervision and support for Student Researchers.
• Agree project tasks, priorities and deadlines within the Insight & Influence priorities set by the Advice, Insight & Influence Manager.
• Hold regular one-to-one meetings and provide feedback on research quality, progress and development.
• Support the recruitment, induction and training of Student Researchers.
• Coach researchers in qualitative and quantitative research methods, data analysis, ethical practice and insight generation.
• Review research outputs and support consistent standards across projects.
• Monitor workload, wellbeing and performance, escalating significant concerns to the Advice, Insight & Influence Manager.
• Support the researchers to plan their work independently and develop their research skills.
Collaborative Working
• Build relationships with other Union departments, helping them identify Insight & Influence needs.
• Sharing briefings, presentations and reports with Union colleagues.
• Work with Union departments to understand how they use and collect data and feedback, providing tools for them to turn it into insight.
Application Deadline: Monday 31st August 2026
Shortlisting: Tuesday 1st September 2026
Interviews/ Selection Day: Wednesday 9th September 2026. Candidates will need to perform a task in readiness for the interview and will be given the interview questions in advance.
Communication of outcome: Monday 14th September 2026
How to apply:
Apply via our Applicant Portal.
Read more about the role and what's expected before applying by downloading the Job Description & Person Specification.
Please send any questions regarding the role to Steph Lomas - Advice, Insight and Influence Manager at slomas3@lancashire.ac.uk. (Please note Steph is on annual leave from August 14th until August 24th but will respond upon return).
Apply online before the deadline - Application Portal.