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Senior Visa Compliance Officer

City, University of London - Student and Academic Services

Location: London
Salary: £39,745 to £46,047 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 6th February 2023
Closes: 27th February 2023
Job Ref: PRSV00508

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

Corporate Responsibilities to the Home Office in regards to Sponsor Licence

Student and Academic Services has responsibility for managing City’s institution-wide for corporate compliance responsibilities to the Home Office. City has over 9000 international students, and the University is required to have in place a robust framework for managing all aspects of the Home Office requirements. Failure to adhere to the requirements results in sanction against the university including the inability to recruit students from outside the UK.

Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for dealing with Home Office compliance issues including developing and managing effective working relationships externally with applicants, students and senior colleagues.

Key duties:

Monitoring and supervising the development and delivery of the cross-university business process to meet the legislative and University obligations on the Point Based System.

Manage Level 1 and Level 2 users to generate, issue and update CAS numbers for international students.

To be first point of contact for admissions staff preparing CASs and to ensure that all CASs are assigned correctly and within agreed deadline.

Together with International Student Advice and Compliance Manager, prepare for internal and external audits and attend service audit meetings.

Line management of the Visa Compliance team and to deputise for the International Student Advice and Compliance Manager in their absence.

Person Specification

You will have significant knowledge of UKVI compliance and the Points Based System and a working knowledge and experience of using the Home Office Sponsor Management System.

In addition, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. You will have experience of working with international students in Higher Education, or similar context, managing student records using SITS and a demonstrable understanding of the complexities of student record keeping. A customer service approach is required along with the ability to manage a busy workload and meet deadlines.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date: 27th February 2023 at 11:59pm.

Interviews are scheduled for w/c 13th March 2023.

Where hybrid working can be accommodated, specific arrangements will be agreed with the successful candidate before their start date. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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