Due to continued growth, we’re looking for an expert in recruitment Onboarding, Background Screening and Immigration. We’re hiring expertise at high volumes from all over the world, and this role is crucial in providing specialist advice, ensuring our employees are legally compliant and onboarding successfully and in a timely manner.

Key Accountabilities:

Supporting the Onboarding Manager and working as part of an onshore and offshore team of 16, you’ll ensure that National Grid is legally compliant with all aspects of UK legislation pertaining to UK Law and Immigration guidelines set out by the Home Office. You’ll provide expert advice for all areas of pre-employment screening, Right to Work (RTW), Visa and Onboarding activities, ensuring the appropriate controls are in place to mitigate risk, using SuccessFactors.

You’ll deliver training to stakeholders to improve compliance; specialist guidance to Recruiters and Line Managers on Relocations, Visas, Right to Work & Global Mobility; assist with Pre-employment screening (ensuring compliance with UK Physical Security Policy and that risks are mitigated in terms of insider and imposter threats are negated); Home Office reporting; and audit monthly key processes and data points to ensure the highest compliance standards are met. We’re always looking to improve our processes, so a thirst for continuous improvement is always well regarded!

About You:

You’re a highly experienced Onboarding, Immigration and RTW professional with the desire and ability to play a significant and leading role in a growing team - able to respond quickly and efficiently to demanding timescales, and often highly complex queries. You have sound knowledge of Pre-Employment Screening processes in a high-volume environment and can demonstrate strong business acumen in commercial analysis and current trends. You’re a team player, diligent, focused and organised, able to manage multiple projects and many stakeholders.

What we can Offer:

A competitive salary between £47,000 - £53,000 (dependent on experience)

Plus:

• Annual Bonus & annual salary benchmarking

• Generous double-match pension scheme (for every £1 you put in we put in £2, to a max company contribution of up to 12%)

• 26 days holiday (plus 8 statutory days, plus the opportunity to buy 5 more annually)

• Life Insurance: 10 x your base salary

• Access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car, health and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role.

• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).

• Access to apps that support health, fitness and wellbeing.

• Supportive, friendly team

Further Information:

We offer a hybrid and flexible working approach, a mix of office working in our Warwick office (1 day per week, or 2 days in a fortnight) and the rest home working. We can also offer some flexibility in terms of hours / times if required. Our standard working week is 37 hours.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

The closing date of this advert is Thursday 25th May 2023

Interviews will be held w/c 5th June 2023

We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

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About Us:

National Grid plc, a top 20 constituent of the FTSE 100, is a multinational energy company, with over 23,000 employees; revenues of £15 billion, and £62 billion in assets - the company is one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the world. We are on a mission to bring energy to life, operating at the heart of the energy system, connecting millions of people safely, reliably and efficiently to the electricity they rely on every day, and supporting local communities to prosper.