The Employee Engagement Survey supports students’ unions/associations to measure the engagement and satisfaction of their staff and benchmark results against previous years, the sector and wider charity sector trends.

 

Signs up for the Employee Engagement Survey 2024 has now closed.

For those SUs participating in 2024, we encourage you to look at the 'key dates' section further down this page to see what’s coming up in the survey.

 

Employee Engagement Survey

 

We are celebrating 11 years of the Employee Engagement Survey in 2023, as we enter our 12th year of running the survey alongside Agenda Consulting! 

 

The Employee Engagement Survey enables you to measure and gain real insight into the engagement, experience and satisfaction of your staff. You also get to benchmark results against previous years (so you can measure progress), peers in the sector, and also against wider charity sector trends. The survey itself is provided through a dedicated website for your SU/SA, branded with your logo and colours. Staff complete the survey anonymously online.  The site also has a reporting portal where you can access your results and generate different reports, by department or demographic group, for example. 

 

You can then use the data as a launchpad for deeper conversations with staff in your SU, and for identifying and taking action to improve future employee experience.

Now more than ever it's important to understand what staff experience is like. As we know, research shows happy, engaged staff experience higher levels of wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention, alongside improved performance. Through this survey we are committed to providing our members with a high quality platform, data and insights through the power of the collective.

Participants answer core questions, alongside open questions, and demographic questions.  

 

The core question themes for 2024 are:

• Colleagues
• Communication
• Employee Wellbeing
• Engagement
• Leadership
• Learning and Development
• Management
• Performance Management
• Reward
• Role
• Service
• Values
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The core question set for the 2024 Employee Engagement is linked here.

 

 

How It Works

 

Watch our introduction video below to find out more:

 

Watch the information webinar recording below to find out more about the 2024 survey:

 

 

Our Partners

 

Agenda Consulting is our trusted partner who helps us deliver the annual survey.  Agenda Consulting specialise in helping not-for-profit develop and sustain high levels of employee engagement. Agenda’s involvement offers external expertise and latest thinking on engagement and employee voice.

 

We have also worked alongside Atkinson HR Consulting to encourage SU/SAs to access this resource. Atkinson HR Consulting specialise in creating change, building capacity and driving quality people management in values-driven organisations across the UK.  They work with a range of SUs and charities to provide support around staff engagement and culture.

 

Cost

 

The cost of participating in the Employee Engagement Survey in 2024 is £1,200 + VAT for affiliated members, and £2,400 + VAT for non-affiliated members.

 

Because of our collective buying power, the cost, including its special features, can be offered to students' unions/associations each year at a significantly discounted price. 

 

 

Key Dates

 

     

Stage	Date
2023 Expressions of Interest/Fact Finds Open	16/10/2023
Employee Engagement Survey 2023 Information Webinars:	12/10/2023 - 13-14pm  8/11/2023 - 13-14pm 5/12/2023 - 13-14pm
2024 Fact Find Deadline Submission	29/01/2024
2024 Survey Fieldwork Windows:	15/01/2024 – 2/02/2024 22/02/2024 – 9/02/2024 29/01/2024 – 15/02/2024 5/02/2024 – 23/02/2024 12/02/2024 – 1/03/2024
2024 Peer Benchmarking	19/02/2024 – 8/03/2024
2024 Survey Reports Available	22/04/2024

 

Any questions about the Employee Engagement Survey, please email: su.careers@nus.org.uk