Immigration Solicitor

Job title: Immigration Solicitor
Salary DOE
Location: Manchester

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The UK's leading practice in sport and media law. Focus has many advantages. In sport and media it delivers a vital competitive advantage. By choosing to focus their practice solely in these areas, this firm offers its clients the advantage of working with the most highly skilled and experienced lawyers in sports and media legal practice. Priding themselves on working with rights holders, brands, and individual personalities, and advising on the most high-profile and complex matters in world sport.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work with industry experts in the market-leading firm;
2. Be involved in a varied caseload coupled with a unique opportunity to grow the immigration work in a dedicated environment;
3. Chance to build on experience and skills through a rare opportunity to have a day-to-day involvement in a sought-after sector;
4. Casework including personal and business immigration cases, with a particular focus on applications under the work routes of the Points-Based System;
5. Provide advice to clients on Home Office sponsorship rules and the use of the sponsor management system;
6. Advise clients on settlement and British citizenship applications;
7. Keep up to date on changes to Home Office policies/procedures;
8. Provide updates to clients;
9. Actively participate in business development, driving new firm initiatives.

Specific Role Requirements:

1. NQ to 4 years' PQE (although we will consider outstanding candidates outside this range);
2. Good experience working on a variety of visa/immigration cases and a good working knowledge of the Immigration Rules;
3. Experience advising on sports and media-related matters is desirable, but not essential.

General Centrefield Requirements Applicable to All Roles:
We are looking for candidates who satisfy the following criteria:

1. Legally qualified;
2. Excellent academics;
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills;
4. Language skills preferable;
5. Entrepreneurial mind-set to business development;
6. Experience in working collaboratively with colleagues;
7. Ability to think and plan strategically;
8. Ability to work to tight deadlines and be flexible as some evening and weekend work may be required;
9. Excellent administrative and organisational skills;
10. Work with honesty, integrity, and be culturally sensitive;
11. Eligible to work in the UK.

Benefits:

1. Working with some of the largest organisations and clubs in the sports sector and with some world-renowned athletes;
2. Rare opportunity to work within a highly desired sector, with a top-rated firm in Chambers and Legal 500 dedicated solely to sports and media;
3. Excellent opportunities for career growth;
4. Joining a friendly and supportive team;
5. Flexible working opportunities.