Early Careers Talent Acquisition Partner

Salary: £70,500

Closing date: Sunday 14th December

Contract type: Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 5th and W/C 12th January 2026

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.  

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.  

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won't be solved by science alone.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Early Careers Talent Acquisition Partner to drive the delivery of Wellcome's Early Careers Strategy across, creating a talent pipeline to support delivery of the mission. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping Wellcome's early careers offering, from attraction through to rotation management.  

You can view the full job description on our website 

To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

• Experience of managing early careers talent attraction, assessment, selection, management and development.  

• Experienced in Talent Acquisition, gained in different organisations that have provided exposure to a variety of business practices.  

• Understanding of how resourcing practice contributes to achieving strategic business outcomes.   

• Experienced in developing process and outcome metrics; comfortable with manipulating and interpreting data.   

• Experience of operating in partnership with HR Business Partners to deliver talent acquisition services.   

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

Our Hybrid Way of Working  

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.  

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.    

Please note our offices will be closed from Tuesday 23 December until Monday 5 January 2026. We will not be able to respond to emails sent to during this time and will reply to any queries on or after Monday 5 January 2026.  

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do 

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at   

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any 'unspent' criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is 'spent'. 

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.

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