About the Role

This role will provide specialist advice and advocacy to international applicants and students about immigration and other practical issues before enrolment and during their course. You would also deliver guidance and training in a variety of formats to our international student body, including written guidance, webinars and workshops.

The successful candidate will join a busy team working alongside four Welfare Advisers and two International Student Advisers. This role is not responsible for Visa Compliance. At Queen Mary, confidential immigration advice is delivered within the Advice and Counselling Service, while student Visa Compliance is managed within Academic Registry

About You

You will have substantial experience working with international students in higher education and be aware of the challenges they may encounter. You will be competent providing immigration advice and undertaking immigration casework for students up to OISC level 2. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as members of the LGBTQA+ community, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic groups as these groups are underrepresented in these roles at Queen Mary.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service currently employs 43 staff equating to approximately 31FTE. It has five staff teams: Counselling, Welfare and International Advice, Mental Health, Sexual Assault and Harassment Advice and Frontline Services.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at Mile End in London. It is a full time (35 hours per week), permanent appointment, with an expected start date of 1st August 2023. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £41,386 – £48,414 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Rachel Hacking, Senior International Student Adviser. r.hacking@qmul.ac.uk

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button.

The closing date for applications is 9th May 2023. Interviews are expected to be held 19th May 2023 or shortly thereafter.