People Experience and Insight Partner - FTC

Salary Circa £62,000 per annum

Contract type Fixed Term

Location Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AD (Agile; approximately 2 days a week from our office)

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The Vacancy

The People Team at ARUK is undergoing a transformation that will position it brilliantly to enable the successful delivery of the organisation’s strategy. The purpose of the People Team in delivering the organisations goals is to empower our colleagues to thrive by shaping exceptional experiences and culture that unlocks their potential — so ARUK can realise it's vision of a world free from the fear, harm and heartbreak of dementia. This role will play a pivotal role in mapping and creating a shared understanding of the employee experience, defining the aspirational employee experience and supporting the People team in designing tailored, inclusive and innovative solutions to deliver and improve people practices that will deliver the best ever experience.

A key enabler of this will be to design an inclusive continuous listening strategy that will mean our employees have a voice and we are regularly able to gather that insight to help shape people practices.

This is a new role and so there is opportunity for the post holder to shape this role, however it is expected that they will use internal and external data and insight, embed a continuous listening approach and use and embed design thinking practices to develop tailored people solutions.

This is an 18-month FTC.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead the creation of an employee experience map across the entire employee journey and use workforce insight to understand the current experience of colleagues.
Design, implement and embed a continuous learning approach to regularly gather employee insight and feedback to inform the People strategy and design of people initiatives and products.
Implement an engagement platform to regularly measure employee engagement and sentiment and develop a simple framework that leaders and managers can use to act on the insight.
Using data and workforce insight create employee persona’s to facilitate targeted, tailored people-centric interventions that will enable delivery of the organisation’s strategy.
Use design thinking approaches to redesign people products and build this capability within people team
Support with OKR setting and prioritisation of work based on insight
Bring thought leadership and emerging concepts in employee experience into ARUK and the People Team, and review benchmarking data and insight to suggest improvements and enhancements.
Map the employee value proposition and develop the employer brand alongside the Resourcing Team to attract talent to ARUK.
Assess leadership and management practices and wider people practices and policies and their impact on the employee experience
Create inclusive approaches that positively impact engagement from the start through to end of the employment journey

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Knowledge and experience of developing a continuous listening approach and embedding tools and platforms to gather regular employee insights and improve engagement.
Experience of customer and employee journey mapping to be able to identify moments that matter and understand pain points to drive improvements.
Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical data concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.
Excellent communication skills to be able to engage and build relationships with colleagues at all levels.
Strong understanding of the employee lifecycle and people processes and practices and demonstrable experience of assessing gaps and working with people practitioners to develop initiatives to drive improvement.
Good understanding of EDI and incorporating these considerations into the design of people practices along the employee lifecycle.
Knowledge and experience of human centric service design and design thinking approaches to develop people processes and practices.
Excellent story telling skills to be able to engage internal audiences on the employee experience landscape.
Excellent data analysis skills and the ability be able to derive insight from various data sources to understand and communicate employee and cultural sentiment.

The closing date for applications is the 22nd February 2026, likely to be held week commencing 2nd March 2026. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date. We would encourage you to submit your application at the earliest opportunity, as on occasion we may have to bring forward the interview date and/or the closing date based on the needs of the business. Although a possibility, this will only happen in exceptional circumstances. Please indicate in your covering letter if you are unable to attend an interview on a certain date.

The Charity

Alzheimer's Research UK is the UK's leading dementia research charity. Our mission is to accelerate progress towards a cure. Today 1 in 2 people will be impacted by dementia, either through caring for a loved one, developing it themselves or tragically both. But there is hope.

There has never been a more important and exciting time in dementia research. With promising new drugs in clinical trials that slow the progression of the diseases that cause it, and revolutionary new ways to diagnose them on the horizon, we are now at a tipping point. Working with the smartest minds globally and across the UK, with industry and academia, Alzheimer’s Research UK is uniquely placed to invest in the very best research identifying barriers to a cure and knocking them down so that there are more and better treatments for everyone with dementia. For the first time in history, we can see a future where people with dementia can get a swift and accurate diagnosis, and effective treatments that could slow or even stop their disease. We stand for everyone affected by dementia. We stand for a cure.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented. Any offer of employment is however subject to you having the right to work in the UK.

The Benefits

It is important to offer a range of benefits which are designed to meet both the organisational and individual needs, are market competitive and designed to attract and retain employees.

For more details on working for Alzheimer's Research UK click here.

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We are creative and fearless in our work.

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We collaborate widely and build supportive environments.