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Role Description

Join a dynamic HR team at Duke University’s School of Medicine, where you’ll play a key role in delivering specialized, high-impact support for our Human Resources Service Center (HRSC)!

As an HR Specialist, you’ll help drive exceptional service across immigration-related processes, offering expert guidance and ensuring a smooth, well-coordinated experience throughout the employment lifecycle.

• Support departments within the School of Medicine’s HRSC in its immigration services
• Serve as a resource, providing guidance and excellent customer service
• Prepare, coordinate, and enter documentation throughout the employment process

Qualifications

• Prior visa/immigration experience preferred
• Work requires knowledge of basic communications, research and mathematical principles normally acquired through a high school education
• Five (5) years of related experience or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience

Requirements

• Serve as a resource on routine and complex visa matters
• Provide guidance, assistance, and support to management, supervisors, and administrators
• Demonstrate knowledge of internal HR information and communicate Duke Policies and regulations
• Act as consultant and recommend best practices in accordance with established University policy
• Maintain and build relationships with School of Medicine HR and other appropriate offices and departments
• Address, analyze, and triage all general customer inquiries
• Advise and assist in the handling of human resources issues
• Provide immigration policy and human resources policy guidance
• Act as immigration resource to Foreign Nationals
• Oversee and coordinate visa process for international staff, faculty appointments, JF 27 postdocs and visiting scholars/observers
• Coordinate, process, and manage new hires, including I-9 verification and submission
• Accurately process HR transactions in Duke’s HR systems
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive medical and dental care programs
• Generous retirement benefits
• A wide array of family-friendly and cultural programs

Company Description

Duke University School of Medicine is the youngest of the nation's top medical schools, established in 1930. It is ranked sixth among medical schools in the nation and prides itself on being an inclusive community of outstanding learners, investigators, clinicians, and staff.

• Composed of more than 2,500 faculty physicians and researchers
• More than 1,300 students and over 6,000 staff
• Part of Duke Health, a world-class academic medical center