Quality and Compliance Manager - 12 month FTC

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.

At EIT we are seeking a forward-thinking Quality and Compliance Manager with demonstrable experience to continue the design, roll out, and maintenance of our robust, ISO-aligned but research-accessible, Quality Management System (QMS) on a 12-month fixed term contract from beginning of April to allow for a handover period. This role will ensure that quality and compliance principles continue to be embedded across research, underpinning both academic excellence and the successful commercialisation of research outputs at EIT.

As part of a small and diverse Quality team, you will bring quality management expertise to help strengthen a culture of quality, compliance and continuous improvement across EIT. You will help develop and expand quality systems that support work from foundational science through the research and development life cycle. You will also create learning materials for the Quality Management System (QMS) and deliver training across EIT as required.

• Continue developing the design and institute-wide rollout of QMS requirements and processes, aligned with ISO 9001 to ensure applicability across the developing management systems at EIT.
• Maintain and continuously improve the sustainable, scalable, and adaptable quality management framework that serves diverse research and commercial programmes.
• Act as a liaison with certification bodies and auditors, ensuring audit readiness and successful certification.

• Maintain the EIT document control system, ensuring all policies, procedures, and quality records are accurate, up-to-date, and accessible.
• Promote compliance with policy requirements across departments and programmes and provide clear guidance to programme teams.

• Manage audit programmes, driving compliance, transparency, and accountability across all functions.
• Facilitate management reviews, producing actionable insights and ensuring leadership visibility of performance and risk.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement and drive initiatives that enhance the institute’s operational excellence.

• Help to develop and deliver training and awareness programmes to embed quality and compliance culture.
• Act as a trusted advisor to programme leaders, offering expert guidance and practical support.
• Foster a continuous improvement ethos, ensuring lessons learned and best practices are shared across the institute.

• Develop the QMS further towards specific commercial opportunities.
• Training and personal development opportunities.
•  Grow the QMS in support of EIT growth and building development.

• Demonstrable expertise in QMS and ISO implementation and ongoing compliance.
• Experience leading quality and compliance functions in research-intensive or complex multi-programme environments.
• Strong background in document control, policy management, audits, and compliance leadership.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence across diverse teams and levels of seniority.
• Track record of driving cultural change and embedding quality systems at scale.
• Experience in electronic Quality management systems and strong IT skills.
• Experience in creating, delivering and presenting training packages for QMS.

• Experience in Risk management.
• Understanding of regulatory contexts relevant to life sciences (MHRA, FDA, HTA).
• Experience in a start-up environment.
• Project management qualifications or experience.
• Experience working in a quality role under ISO 13485 or ISO 42001

• You must have the right to work permanently in the UK for the duration of the fixed term contract (12-months)
• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) and can commit to being office based during the working week Monday-Friday.