Student Immigration Adviser

Student Immigration Adviser

Are you passionate about supporting international students and helping them succeed in their studies in the UK?

The Student Immigration Service wish to appoint two Student Immigration Advisers to join our friendly, dedicated team of specialist advisers and administrators.

About The Role

As a Student Immigration Adviser, you’ll play a vital role in guiding students through the UK immigration system, ensuring they can fully engage with their studies. You’ll provide expert advice and support to students subject to immigration controls, both in person and online.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Advising international students on visa and immigration matters.
• Collaborating with colleagues to deliver a consistent, high-quality service.
• Producing Confirmations of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) for Student visa applicants across all University programmes.
• Contributing to processes that maintain the University’s Student visa sponsor status.

About You

We’re looking for someone who:

• has knowledge of student immigration requirements and UK Visas and Immigration compliance.
• possesses excellent interpersonal skills to respond effectively to queries from students and colleagues.
• is an experienced and efficient administrator with excellent attention to detail.
• can demonstrate strong organisational skills and the ability to develop administrative systems.

It Is Also Desirable If You Have

• experience supporting students in a Higher Education environment.
• familiarity with student records systems and databases.
• understanding of the international student experience.
• experience with CAS production and Student visa requirements (training can be provided).

Further information

For an informal discussion about the role please contact one of our Senior Student Immigration Advisers; Natasha Tiley (nt459@bath.ac.uk) or Aneta Venables (av354@bath.ac.uk).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you

Benefits

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

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Further Details

• Job Description & Person Specification

Terms and Conditions of Employment

Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting: We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.

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