Global Community and Staff Immigration Advisor

Full-time; 35 hours per week

Open ended contract

We are looking for a passionate and experienced immigration advisor to join us. This is a new role within our Global Partnerships and Community team.  The Global Community and Staff Immigration Advisor reports to the Deputy Head, Global Community.

The opportunity:

Do you want a job where you really feel like you are making a difference to the lives of others? Do you want to help support people make their move to the wonderful city of Edinburgh? This is an exciting new role in a small but growing team within Edinburgh Global. This role has the rewarding dual aspect of both providing expert immigration advice as well as delivering and co-ordinating projects supporting our global community, such as our work with refugees and at-risk scholars.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Able to provide evidence of professional training on UK Immigration visa routes.
• Keen eye for detail and experience in providing specialist UK immigration advice.
• Passionate about supporting staff and students in times of crisis.
• Confident dealing with often highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Self-motivated and self-disciplined, and happy to work in a small team within a large and complex organisation.
• Proactive in your approach, and deciding when issues need more detailed advice beyond what you can give.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held the week beginning Monday July 25^th 2022.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.  Further information is available on our right to work webpages

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role.  This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant. 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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