People & Engagement Analyst

Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.

Your Role:

At EIT we are seeking a collaborative and delivery focused Analyst to join our People and Engagement team. The Analyst, People & Engagement will provide project, portfolio, reporting and analytical capability across the People & Engagement function. The Analyst role acts as a capacity multiplier through helping ensure priorities are well planned, actively managed and informed by high-quality data and insight. 

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working across multiple activities from Planning to Delivery. It will suit someone who can move comfortably between data production and analysis, project and programme, reporting and presentations as well as enjoying task based practical delivery. The role is intended to create additional capacity and insight across the function, rather than operate as a traditional executive support or HR operations role. 

Your Responsibilities:

Portfolio & Programme Management

• Maintain the People & Engagement roadmap and portfolio, providing clear visibility of priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks and decisions.
• Coordinate the regular rhythm of review, ensuring progress, issues and actions are accurately captured and followed through.
• Produce clear reporting and identify where priorities are at risk or additional intervention is required.
• Support annual and ongoing People planning, including resource, budget and priority tracking.

Project Delivery

• Take an active role in defining People & Engagement projects and workstreams.  
• Develop practical project plans and translate analysis into clear actions.
• Undertake research, benchmarking and diagnostic work to support organisational and people initiatives
• Provide hands-on delivery capacity to priority work helping the wider team achieve shared goals.

Data, Insight, Reporting

• Partner the Senior Director on the People & Engagement reporting cycle, including dashboards and management information. Collaborate across the team to review and improve data flows.
• Analyse workforce and People data to identify trends, risks and opportunities and convert findings into clear insight and recommendations.
• Build high-quality Excel models, analyses, presentations and data visualisations that support evidence-based decision-making.
• Use tools such as AI, automation or other digital tools to make reporting and analysis more effective.

Organisational Effectiveness & Team 

• Act as a multiplier through collaborating and adding capacity where needed in the team.
• Connect information across the team so that relevant dependencies, themes and implications are understood.
• Apply structured problem-solving and organisational development thinking to emerging People and organisational questions.
• Support the HR Business Partners on organisational diagnostics, organisation design, change, or other employee experience work where appropriate.
• Prepare concise briefing materials, recommendations and presentations for leadership discussions and decision-making.

The is an excellent opportunity for someone working professionally across Project, Organisational Development or Analyst initiatives. You will have gained strong analytical, project and problem-solving foundations and are looking for a move inhouse or into a different organisational context. 

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience in project management and analysis, business process, strategic planning, analytics or similar background.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear conclusions and actions.
• Confidence working with quantitative and qualitative data, with excellent presentation creation capability.
• Experience contributing to projects involving multiple stakeholders on confidential activity. 
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Working in an environment that has an evidence-based approach to solving problems across People, Process & Technology.
• Proven experience using AI and digital productivity tools to improve analysis, communication and workflow.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience in a people & change, organisational development or consulting environment, or in a fast-paced, R&D or innovation led context. 
• A degree or postgraduate qualification in Occupational Psychology, Psychology, Organisational Behaviour. 
• Experience with Power BI or another data visualisation / business intelligence tool.
• Exposure to People data, HR analytics or workforce planning.

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary + travel allowance + bonus
• Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
• Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
• Employee discounts
• Electric car scheme
• Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Family Planning
• Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
• Coaching & Therapy services

Working Together – What It Involves:

• You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
• Due to the nature of the function and the business, this is an office-based role.