Selection Administrator in Oxford

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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
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

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:

The Education & Scholarships team is looking to recruit a professionally experienced and exceptionally organised Selection administrator who will provide administrative support to ensure effective delivery of all selection processes for the funding opportunities under the Education & Scholarships Programme. The postholder will manage applicant and assessor communications, maintain accurate tracking and documentation, and contribute to high-quality evaluation and quality assurance checks.

Your Responsibilities:

• Respond to applicant queries and troubleshoot issues related to the application form, assessments, and interviews
• Assist with updates to the Ellison Scholars application forms and support administration of the Ellison Scholars test
• Draft and send mail-merged communications to applicants via the application platform
• Manage the onboarding of assessors, tracking their progress and responding to queries from prospective and current assessors
• Monitor assessor review progress during application review windows
• Support administration of meetings for applicants and assessors
• Conduct spot-checks of applications and reviews to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to selection guidelines
• Track completion of required agreements and policies for shortlisted applicants
• Complete due diligence checks for shortlisted applicants, verifying application information through research and contact with applicants and referees
• Create profiles and maintain accurate records for shortlisted candidates
• Track the progress and outcomes of shortlisted applicants in relation to their Oxford applications
• Provide administrative support to the Undergraduate and Graduate Selection Coordinators and Selection Lead as required

Requirements

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven administration experience in a busy team, delivering high-volume output to deadlines
• Exceptionally organised
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience using databases, able to reliably and accurately check and enter data
• Technically proficient - confident learning new systems; excellent MS Office skills
• Fluent written and spoken English, with a confident phone manner and experience responding to external queries over email
• Sensitivity, discretion, and an understanding of the legal requirements when handling personal information and data

Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience working with international stakeholders across time zones
• Experience working with under 18s
• Experience working in selection or admissions
• Experience with Airtable software and application platforms
• Understanding of the University of Oxford

Benefits

• Salary - £30,000 to £35,000 (dependent on experience) + 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. We cannot offer sponsorship for this role
• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)
• We require this person to be flexible to work some evenings and weekends during peak selection periods to cater for other time zones
• We require the Selection Administrator to start in position at the beginning of December 2026