Your key responsibilities:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with government authorities and immigration agencies.
- Remain aware of changes in immigration laws and regulations to ensure compliance and provide appropriate guidance to stakeholders.
- Oversee the immigration processes to ensure timely and accurate submissions of applications and documentation.
- Identify areas for process improvement and implement best practices to enhance operational efficiency.
- Monitor and analyze immigration metrics to assess performance and drive continuous improvement.
- Lead and mentor a team of immigration professionals, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
Skills and attributes for success
- Arabic speaking and strong English languages skills
- Strong leadership, teaming and management skills
- Build and maintain strong relationships internally and externally
- Ability to constantly prioritise and re-prioritise in a very fast paced environment
- Strength of character to enable compliance and protect the firm’s interests and minimise risk
- Planning and proactively managing the workload across the cluster; urgent work to be prioritised, deadlines are met and work is technically accurate, clear, concise and error free
- Collaborate with other Talent Leaders to enable delivery across the employee lifecycle
To qualify for the role you must have
- At least 5-7 years of previous experience in a similar Immigration / Government relations leadership role
- Strong technical knowledge of the Immigrations landscape in KSA
- Proven track record of managing complex immigration cases and providing strategic advice.
- KSA Labour law understanding and awareness
- Strong communication skills – written and verbal
- Confidentiality and Integrity, as this role requires dealing with employees’ personal documentation and upholding EY’s values, brand and reputation
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Law, Business Administration, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Be agile
- Experience of leading teams
- Experience of working with offshore teams
- Ability to work under pressure
- Sensitivity and confidentiality with dealing with personal or legal matters