Immigration 3+ Watford

Leading professional services company requires an immigration lawyer due to continued expansion. This is a broad ranging role and team orientated role.

The Role

* Provide strategic leadership & operational oversight across all aspects of the Immigration process, ensuring day to day execution of service commitments including rigorous quality controls and service enhancements.
* Case Management - Overseeing service delivery including reviewing and signing off advice, adhering to SLAs and KPIs, caseworking on an as needed basis. Ensuring that the team have the appropriate level of technical expertise and appropriate
* -Advisory - Advising on complex cross-border immigration issues, including post Brexit, the impact of Covid on travel and working from anywhere.
* Operational Excellence. Identifying opportunities to use technology to streamline immigration process. Establishing an SLA framework ensuring timely and accurate escalations in line with Service level commitments. Ensure strong rigour and control in line with legislation and compliance requirements. Adapt to continuous and ongoing legislation changes ensuring process is 'fit for purpose' and supported by ongoing training and development
* Team management: identifying the team's training and development requirements, ensuring the team receives sufficient support and coaching including taking on a Performance Manager role and contributing to the team's overall development.
* Interpret and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance and support
* Build a high performing Immigration Operational Team to drive best in class service operations
* Work in close partnership with the HR Function, Capabilities and Support functions to drive continuous improvement and employee experience
* Ensure clear scope of services focused on customer outcomes, compliance and risk
* Develop effective relationships with key stakeholders (COE's - Recruitment; Ethics and Independence team, the broader People Function and other key business stakeholders) to ensure end to end process performance is effective
* Interpret and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance, or clarification for enquiries
* Manage resources within the teams to the agreed budget.

Experience Required

* This is a growing team and the role will suit an ambitious immigration professional with the desire and ability to play an important role in continuing that growth. The successful applicant will be organised and efficient, able to produce consistently high-quality work within demanding time frames but not afraid to ask questions to challenge or seek clarification when appropriate. The successful applicant will have a proven track record in overseeing a Team, including reviewing and signing off advice. The applicant will also have experience of advising alongside other professionals such as tax or mobility specialists) and an understanding of the immigration elements of cross-border transactions, including emerging Covid-19 related issues such as travel corridors and working from anywhere.

* The applicant will have experience of handling a wide range of corporate immigration matters/cases, ideally the following:
* Work Visas (ICT, Skilled Worker)
* Frontier Worker Permits
* Foreign company set up in the UK
* Sponsor licence applications and associated ongoing compliance
* Family applications
* EUSS
* Mock audits
* Prevention of illegal working/Right To Work
* Student and Graduate routes
* Global Talent, Investor, Sole Rep
* Global immigration case management
* Immigration policy design
* Right of Abode
* Citizenship
* Bespoke immigration projects
* Authentic and transparent leader with a high 'say/do' ratio, focused on execution

*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Chadwick Nott Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.