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

At EIT we are seeking a proactive, process driven IT Service Desk Manager. The IT Service Desk Manager is responsible for leading and continually improving EIT Oxford’s IT Service Desk, ensuring a responsive, professional and high-quality support experience. As the primary entry point into IT, the Service Desk handles incidents, requests, support and guidance, with this role accountable for maintaining operational excellence and a white-glove user experience.

This operational role requires strong Service Desk leadership experience, practical knowledge of ITIL and IT Service Management, and the ability to develop people, processes and capabilities within a complex, fast-moving organisation. Working closely with the Head of IT Services and wider IT teams, the role will own day-to-day Service Desk performance and drive continual improvement across IT service delivery.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the IT Service Desk team, promoting ownership, accountability, professionalism and excellent customer service.
• Own day-to-day Service Desk performance, including ticket prioritisation, workload management, escalation, communication and resolution.
• Maintain strong standards across SLA/OLA performance, first-contact resolution, ticket quality and effective hand-offs between teams.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex or sensitive issues and identify recurring demand, bottlenecks and service improvement opportunities.
• Apply practical ITIL and Service Management principles, ensuring processes are proportionate, effective and consistently followed.
• Improve ITSM data quality, workflows, automation, self-service and knowledge management.
• Support Incident, Major Incident, Problem and Change Management activities, including communications and operational readiness.
• Define and review Service Desk KPIs, using performance data and customer feedback to drive continual improvement.
• Build strong relationships across EIT and ensure the Service Desk continues to meet evolving scientific, technical and operational needs.