Immigration Coordinator - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Fragomen

Fragomen

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Description

We are recruiting for an Immigration Coordinator to join our UK Shared Services team in Sheffield.

About us:
Fragomen is the world's leading exclusive provider of immigration services. We are a firm of more than 6,200 immigration-focused professionals and staff spanning more than 60 offices worldwide. Immigration has been our sole focus for 70 years, and today we offer support in more than 170 countries.

We are problem-solvers, innovators and established thought leaders in immigration, providing strategic immigration advice to a diverse range of clients from individuals to the world's leading multinational corporations.

Fragomen's professionals are respected thought leaders in the immigration field providing expertise to governments across the world including the US Congress, the UK Parliament, the European Union and the United Nations.

A career at Fragomen will provide you with the opportunity to work in an exciting environment for a broad range of clients, where no two days will be the same.

You will face interesting challenges and you will work with dedicated, friendly and ambitious people, where providing exceptional client service is at the core of what we do.

We are extremely proud of our diverse workforce at Fragomen and we are fully committed to providing equal opportunities. We believe that our differences make us stronger.

About the team:

The UK Shared Services team in Sheffield is an extremely friendly and diverse team to join with people of all ages and backgrounds.

The team is split in to smaller sub-teams all with a Senior Coordinator overseeing the workflow and direct line management of the Coordinators.

About the role:

The Immigration Coordinator helps to provide exceptional levels of business support to a wide range of clients by supporting Fragomen's UK Inbound Associate's and Paralegal's in an administrative capacity.

They are exposed to a full range of immigration processes and administrative tasks including:

Other key responsibilities will include:

Booking appointments: Book and reschedule appointments online at the Visa Application Centre
Connect Updates: maintain and update case management records accurately
Compliance Packs: prepare immigration compliance packs for clients
Drafting and Submitting Certificates of Sponsorship: you may be required to take on the additional duty of drafting and submitting Certificates of Sponsorship on the Home office's SMS system
Translation: organise translations

Additional responsibilities include:

Managing dropboxes: answering queries from the client, assignees and case workers.
Specialist tasks: become an expert in completing tasks in a specialist area, including PSC, Tier 5, Compliance and Private Client
Special Projects: take on additional projects as required
Support / training: You may be required to undertake the training of new employees, which could include producing and/or delivering training packages
Ad hoc duties: assist with ad hoc administrative functions, as needed

About you:

To be successful in this role you will have strong administrative and data entry skills, this can be taken from either previous work experience or educational background.

You will be comfortable working in a team with excellent communication skills.

Also required:

Ability to work flexibly and accurately in a fast paced environment
Uses communication skills to influence and achieve objective
Demonstrate exceptional planning and time management skills with an ability to multitask.
Be able to act under instruction with limited supervision
Be able to plan workload, meet deadlines and priorities
Ensures work completed is accurate, to a high quality and follows standard layouts
Able to act under instruction
Completes tasks within agreed timeframes and in line with expectations
Completes the minimum number of tasks per day in line with set targets
Implement effective processes to manage workflow and meet deadlines

Fragomen in Sheffield:

Our Sheffield office is based in the city centre with the added bonus of free on-site parking, as well as several public transport links close by.

The office has approximately 400 people working collaboratively and creating a dynamic, positive environment with over 20 different languages being spoken.

You can expect a great working environment and regular events such as Summer and Christmas parties, social and cultural events.

The Firm operates a hybrid working model, which incorporates a blend of in-person attendance as well as working from home - our aim being to fully leverage our remote working technology and provide a balance for our people in the way that they work.

Whether in the office or working remotely, we are proud of our team spirit and we like to reflect this in the way that we work and everything we do.

Our Responsible Business Strategy (RBS) prioritises Fragomen's social responsibility through one cross-cutting theme and five focus are