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, policy makers, and entrepreneurs 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:
We are expanding our Central Talent Team and are looking for an experienced Talent Partner to support EIT Oxford’s continued growth. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role working closely with hiring managers and HR Business Partners to deliver high-quality recruitment across the organisation.
You will manage end-to-end recruitment for a range of roles, partnering with stakeholders to define hiring needs, attract strong candidates, and deliver a positive and professional candidate experience. This role suits someone who thrives in a scale-up environment, enjoys variety, and balances operational recruitment with strong stakeholder relationships.
Your Responsibilities:
- Partner with hiring managers and HR Business Partners to understand workforce needs and define recruitment strategies
- Manage full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers and onboarding support
- Write and refine job descriptions and adverts aligned to role requirements and employer brand
- Proactively source candidates through direct search, networks, referrals and job boards
- Talent pipelining
- Act as the main point of contact for candidates throughout the recruitment process
- Manage recruitment agencies, including briefing, performance management and cost control
- Build strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs
- Apply best-practice hiring principles, ensuring fair, equitable and compliant processes
- Contribute to continuous improvement of recruitment processes and candidate experience
- Collaborate with wider HR and Talent Team for current, ongoing and future projects
Requirements
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrable experience in in-house recruitment or a 360 recruitment role
- Experience recruiting within life sciences, biotech, or related scientific environments
- Proven experience working in a startup or scale-up environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and advise hiring managers
- Excellent communication skills and a candidate-focused approach
- Ability to manage multiple roles and priorities in a fast-paced setting
- ATS and CRM experience, and strong user of MS Office
- Strong knowledge of the Oxford local talent market
- Familiarity with UK employment law and regional employment trends
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Outstanding time management and multitasking skills, handling numerous and high volume recruitment alongside demanding projects.
- Strong analytical skills to track and improve on recruitment KPIs
- Strong understanding of diversity and inclusion best practices and how to incorporate them into recruitment processes
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Understanding of LinkedIn Recruiter, creating projects and actively pipelining / sourcing candidates
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology or a related field
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g. CIPD or equivalent)
Benefits
- Salary: Depending on Experience + travel allowance + bonus
- Enhanced holiday + options to buy additional days
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Hospital Cash Plan
- Therapy Services
- Perk Box
- Electric Car Scheme
- Childcare benefit
Working Together – What It Involves:
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).
- This is a hybrid role, minimum 3 days per week in Oxford.
