Insight Consultant in Stockport

Location: Stockport, with options for hybrid working

Department: Insight

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 28-35

Salary: £35,494

Who they are

Our client is an exciting membership organisation, developing and championing strong students’ unions. They connect their members and curate services to deliver advice, guidance and crisis support to students’ unions across the UK. They do professional differently. They are a progressive charity representing students’ unions. The sector is inclusive, fun, dynamic and representative and they put students and students’ unions at the heart of everything they do. They are challenging but are committed to creating a supportive and flexible environment which pushes your personal development in your everyday activity.

What they do

Students’ unions can be transformational hubs for students, staff, and wider society. The Charity supports their members’ development to enhance their capacity and harness opportunities to maximise their positive impact. They do this in many ways, from managing a purchasing consortium to drive great value for their members, to their development activity, supporting the best potential in students’ unions – they strive to make a difference to their members.

The Insight Consultant sits within their Communications team, working closely with colleagues across campaigns, policy and membership. The Communications team plays a critical role in shaping how they tell their story, influences decision-makers, and amplifies student voices. Insight is central to this work, ensuring communications and campaigns are grounded in robust evidence and a deep understanding of students’ experiences.

What they need

They are looking for an Insight Consultant to lead the design and delivery of research that strengthens their communications, campaigns and public narrative. This role ensures that their messaging, media work and influencing activity are informed by credible, timely and inclusive insight from students and students’ unions. You will play a vital role in planning and delivering national student surveys, managing qualitative and quantitative research projects, and translating findings into compelling insight that supports communications and campaigning activity. You will work closely with communications colleagues to ensure research outputs are accessible, engaging and usable across a range of channels. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of research and communications, and who is motivated by using evidence to shape narratives, challenge power and create change for students. You should have experience of designing and managing research projects, including surveys and other data collection methods, and of presenting insight in ways that resonate with different audiences. Experience of working with communications, campaigns or public-facing teams is highly desirable.

This position offers a unique opportunity to combine research expertise with communications and campaigning impact, helping to shape their public narrative and strengthen the collective voice of students and students’ unions across the UK. They want to be as flexible as possible in this role, so they’re open to 28 – 35 hours across 4 or 5 days per week and would consider less hours and/or a job share. You can either do this role from their Stockport office or hybrid based partly in Stockport and partly at home.

Committed to Inclusion

They’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. They welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability. You can be yourself here whoever you are, be proud of the work you do and build a career in a place that knows different is good. They recognise that candidates from racialised backgrounds are under-represented in our organisation, and that there are often additional barriers present for people from these groups when applying for roles in the charity sector and beyond. They are committed to taking positive action to expand the diversity of their staff team, and if you meet the minimum criteria for a role (at least 80% of the criteria in the person specification) and are from a racialised background, you will be guaranteed a first stage interview. It is important to note that this scheme guarantees an interview for candidates who meet the minimum criteria and tell them that they would like to be considered under the scheme. The selection decision at interview will be based on the most suitable candidate, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Why apply?

They aim to practice what they preach so they’re happy to offer a flexible person-centred working environment with a great benefits package including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days per year rising with service to 30 days)
• Flexible working opportunities
• Valuable workplace pension
• Enhanced parental pay policies
• Employee assistance programme
• Paid volunteer days – three days per year for full time staff
• Health Cash Plan

Please apply via the online application form, they are unable to accept CVs. If you are unable to complete an application due to accessibility needs please contact them.

Closing date for applications Tuesday 10th February 2026 (23:59). If you’re successfully shortlisted, they’ll see you at an interview on Tuesday 24th February 2026.