Global Talent Visa Manager - 12 month, Fixed-term Contract in City of Westminster

The Royal Society is an endorsing body for the Global Talent Visa, applying sector expertise to manage visa endorsements for research and innovation professionals wishing to work in the UK. This post will play an important role in helping the Royal Society expand the Global Talent visa, which is vital to the mobility of the academic and research community.

Responsibilities

• To support the delivery of the Royal Society\’s role as an \”endorsing body\” for the Global Talent Visa.
• To deliver the application and endorsement process for the Global Talent Visa, in accordance with agreed standards.
• To act as a knowledgeable liaison for applicants, universities, research institutes and partners, providing guidance and support.
• To support ongoing improvement in the expansion of the Global Talent visa.
• To manage relationships with applicants and UK universities and research institutes, acting as main point of contact throughout the endorsement application process.
• To manage relationships with Chairs and Society Fellows, identifying peer reviewers and liaising with them throughout the process in line with diversity, equity and inclusion principles.
• To conduct review processes through fast‑track and peer review routes, including conducting eligibility checks, facilitating peer review and returning endorsement decisions, ensuring the effective handling of applications within required service standards.
• To carry out decision outcomes, including preparing, recording and issuing endorsement decisions and feedback.
• To be responsible for accurate record keeping and data collection/retention, and provision of data, analysis, reports & summaries of Global Talent Visa information as required.
• Working with the Senior Manager and other colleagues, manage operational aspects of partnerships and help maintain strong and positive cooperation on services with the Home Office, other endorsing bodies and other key stakeholders.
• To support the promotion of the Global Talent Visa to key audiences, including assisting with presentations and participation in events and meetings to raise awareness and increase engagement.
• To work collaboratively with others to support continuous ongoing improvement and implementation of good practice, including contributing to review of documentation, procedures and processes and scheme development/evaluation to ensure provision is relevant for the science community and is delivered efficiently and effectively.
• To role model desired behaviours in line with the RS Grants Team Charter.
• To share experience and ideas with others in the Section and the Society, as well as externally, and contribute broadly to the Royal Society\’s mission and priorities.
• To make the best of internal/external resources and coordinate well with external partners to best meet the needs of the Society.
• To build contingency into projects taking into account possible outside factors.
• To set and monitor performance against quality and results orientated targets.
• To focus on both short and long term goals, critical thinking, determine and clarify exact requirements of any situation, check information for accuracy and raise concerns if information is inaccurate, extract key points succinctly, clearly and accurately, and put forward suggestions for improvement concerning current processes or systems.

Qualifications

• Education to degree standard or equivalent.
• Understanding of the research and innovation system in the UK including the higher education and public and non‑profit research organisation sector.
• Desirable science degree.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Strong IT skills.
• Good presentational skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills (desirable).
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to use tact and diplomacy and to handle confidential information.
• Experience of working in a team and across teams.
• Experience of effective internal and external engagement with people at all levels of seniority, including managing meetings and events.
• Experience of using IT to collect, analyse and manipulate data accurately.
• Self‑management: works unsupervised and can motivate self, produces results under pressure, can manage in stressful situations, pushes for the best results.
• Working with others: contributes ideas and identifies opportunities to work with others both within the team and across the organisation, willing to provide feedback to sectional colleagues when requested, produces succinct presentations and papers for senior colleagues, tries different ways of doing things to get the best results, adapts to new challenges and works flexibly.
• Managing people and relationships: delegates effectively, sets clear expectations and authority, monitors results and feedback to team on a regular basis, recognises others\’ contributions and acknowledges limits, helps others identify ways to improve performance, prioritises supervisory responsibilities and carries them out timely, understands client/stakeholder/staff needs and looks for opportunities to improve experiences.