Immigration Compliance Data Officer

Ref Number

B01-05583

Professional Expertise

Administration and Business Support

Department

Vice-President (Operations) (B01)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

£31,904-£35,575

Contract Type

Fixed-term

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

Yes

Closing Date

09-Jul-2026

About us

At UCL, we are London's Global University - an institution driven by innovation, collaboration and a commitment to making a positive impact across the world. Our Professional Services (PS) Hub brings together HR, Finance, Estates and IT to deliver efficient, customer-focused services that enable our staff and students to thrive.

As part of the HR Services Compliance team, you'll play an important role in ensuring UCL meets its responsibilities as a UKVI sponsor. Working in a collaborative and supportive environment, you'll contribute to maintaining the highest standards of immigration compliance while helping to continuously improve the systems and processes that support our international workforce.

About the role

Please note this is a sixth month fixed-term contract.

We're looking for a highly organised and detail-oriented Immigration Compliance Data Officer to join our HR Services team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, ensuring accuracy, and making a real impact behind the scenes.

Reporting to the Staff Immigration Compliance Manager, you'll support the University's UKVI compliance obligations by maintaining accurate records, validating data across multiple systems, monitoring visa expiry dates, and ensuring documentation is audit-ready. You'll produce compliance reports, identify data discrepancies, and help drive continuous improvements to compliance processes.

This is a varied role where you'll work with confidential information, collaborate with stakeholders across the University, and contribute to delivering a professional, responsive service while ensuring UCL remains compliant with UK immigration requirements.

About you

You'll be someone who enjoys working with data and takes pride in producing accurate, high-quality work. You're naturally organised, methodical, and comfortable managing multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.

You'll bring experience from an administrative, HR, compliance, or data-focused environment, with confidence using databases, spreadsheets and reporting systems. You're analytical and proactive, able to identify inconsistencies, resolve issues, and continuously look for ways to improve processes.

Most importantly, you'll be a collaborative team player with excellent communication skills, a customer-focused approach, and the professionalism to handle sensitive information with discretion. Experience of UKVI sponsorship compliance, HR systems, or audit processes would be an advantage, but we're equally interested in candidates who are keen to develop their expertise in this specialist area.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

Immigration loan

Relocation scheme for certain posts

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.