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 seeking a Talent Research Associate to support recruitment activity across EIT Oxford, with a particular focus on academic, scientific and research-led roles.
This is a hands-on role centred on talent pipelining, sourcing, candidate screening and recruitment coordination. You will work closely with Talent Partners, hiring managers and HR colleagues to ensure efficient, well-organised hiring processes and a high-quality candidate experience. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys detail, research, and building strong talent pools within complex scientific environments.
Your Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain long term talent pipelines for academic, scientific and research-focused roles aligned to strategic research areas
- Identify potential candidates through publications, grants, research group listings, LinkedIn, Google Scholar etc.
- Talent mapping and market research for specific research groups, labs and institutions
- Conduct in-depth candidate research and proactive sourcing using LinkedIn, databases, networks and referrals
- Screen candidates against role requirements and provide structured shortlists
- Support Talent Partners and hiring managers across the recruitment lifecycle
- Coordinate complex interview scheduling, including multi-panel interviews
- Manage diary coordination across multiple stakeholders
- Book meeting rooms, virtual interviews and assessment sessions
- Prepare candidates for interviews, including briefing packs and process guidance
- Act as a key point of contact for candidates, ensuring clear and timely communication
- Maintain accurate records within the ATS and recruitment trackers
- Support recruitment administration, reporting and process improvements
- Collaborate with the wider HR and Talent Team on ongoing and future projects
Requirements
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Demonstrated experience in talent research, sourcing or resourcing, ideally within executive search, in-house TA or research-led environment
- Proven experience researching and pipelining candidates for academic, scientific or technical roles
- Strong familiarity with academic and scientific career pathways, including PhD, postdoctoral and research-led roles
- Experience reviewing and interpreting academic CVs
- Ability to conduct structured candidate screenings and produce high quality longlists and shortlists
- Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and/or other research tools
- Strong organisational skills with experience managing high volumes of scheduling and coordination
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail and a candidate-focused approach
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience using ATS, CRM systems and Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of the Oxford local talent market or similar academic/scientific hubs
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience), ideally within a scientific, research or people-related discipline
- Familiarity with recruitment compliance and basic UK employment principles
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.
