Total 146 customer service job vacancies in the grove ings lane waltham grimsby dn37 0hb

• Participates with operating officials, system users, and others in progress review of established systems to determine the reliability, productivity, and user friendliness of the existing system hardware and software.
• Provides ongoing technical support to customers to ensure proper functional use of equipment and programs and to preclude undue interruptions to IT and communications services.
• Provides management with information necessary to address difficult and complex problems in automating work processes.
• Presents formal and informal training and assistance customers regarding property management inquiries.
• Provides insight of process improvement and assists in the creation of reports, analyzing data, and reports any discrepancy to the Office of Digital Transformation Management.
• Monitors the return of FDA Information Technology (IT) equipment and ensures accountability.
• Researches and investigates Accountable Property movement to ensure FDA property systems are accurate.
• Assists in collecting data for adding assets, transferring assets, and disposing of assets in the Property Management Information System (PMIS).

Administration Officer - Ministry of Justice

Location: Grimsby, DN31

Pay: £11.59 per hour increases to £11.88 after 12 weeks in assignment

Job Type: Temporary

Sector: Public Sector

Hours: 37 hours a week (Monday - Friday)

A Little Bit About Us:

Brook Street have grown into one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies − matching thousands of people with meaningful job opportunities at more than 4,500 companies every year. Delivering a quality service to suit the needs of clients and candidates alike was important to our founder Margery Hurst and it remains important to us today.

Recruitment is about so much more than just filling job vacancies. It's about giving people the chance to unleash their full potential, through their perfect new role.

About the Client:

The Ministry of Justice is a major government department, at the heart of the justice system. They work to protect and advance the principles of justice. Their vision is to deliver a world-class justice system that works for everyone in society.

What Will Be Your Day to Day Responsibilities?

Administrative Officers are assigned to teams to carry out a variety of general administrative duties to progress cases through the court/tribunal system. To do so your duties will include but not be limited to:

• Preparing papers and files for court, tribunals, hearings and meetings.
• Producing court/tribunal documents.
• General photocopying and filing.
• Creating and updating records on in-house computer system and data input.
• Post opening and dispatch.
• Booking, preparing and organising meeting rooms.
• Preparing meeting agenda, joining instructions and handouts.
• Resulting courts accurately, interpreting accurately the information required on a court file

You will also support in clerking the courtroom, which will involve:

• Assisting the judge and managing the courtroom, ensuring it runs smoothly and that everyone is in the right place at the right time.
• Implementing any updates and informing the judge.
• Speaking aloud in the courtroom and acting as liaison between jury and judge.
• Sitting beside the judge and using computers to change slides or show evidence as needed.
• Preparing all the case papers for the judge to make sure they are fully prepared for court.

Once trained it will be expected that you work across both of the Grimsby sites, these are only about a 5-minute walk apart.

We anticipate a large volume of applicants so if you have not been contacted directly within 7-14 days please presume you have been unsuccessful.

What's in this for you?

Applying for the Administration Officer role with the Ministry of Justice offers a compelling opportunity to be at the heart of the justice system's daily operations. As an integral part of the ministry, you will be instrumental in ensuring administrative efficiency, maintaining meticulous records, and supporting the coordination of essential functions.

This position provides a unique chance to contribute to the delivery of justice, fostering a sense of responsibility and civic duty. Working in a dynamic environment, you will gain valuable experience in administrative processes specific to the legal sector.

If you are detail-oriented, possess strong organisational skills, and are eager to play a vital role in upholding the principles of justice, applying for this position is a meaningful step towards contributing to the core functions of the Ministry of Justice.

Brook Street is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you. 

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Note: This is a DETAIL/TEMPORARY appointment (not to exceed 120 days). Supervisor approval in writing is required before starting if selected and you will return to you position at the conclusion of the detail/temporary assignment.

This announcement will close on 11/18/2024. The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications. The first 50 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (50 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.

Duties

• Incumbent serves as a member of the VACO General Post Fund Review Committee which reviews and approves the distribution of available resources to the field facilities.
• Provides program and technical support to Central Office, regional offices and medical center directors to maintain a high level of program activity.
• Supervises research and special projects directed towards utilizing information and data from the system to maintain and expand the program.
• Develops, coordinates and evaluates the training program required to operate the program successfully.
• Identifies the training needs and develops appropriate training experiences; and determines to what extent training improves performance.
• Develops guidelines and resource material to support institutionalizing methods in which VA can receive and act on VSO resolutions and other Issues in an expeditious and organized fashion.
• Serves as the principal representative, staff advisor and points of contact with Veterans Service Officers (VSOs) for the Under Secretary for Health.
• Develops, administers and coordinates a variety of organizational and operational issues that impact the work of the Voluntary Service Office.
• Develops guidelines and resource material to support institutionalizing methods in which VA can receive and act on VSO resolutions and other Issues in an expeditious and organized fashion.
• Serves as a member of the VA Central Office (VACO) General Post Fund Review Committee, which reviews and approves the distribution of available resources to the field facilities.
• Provides program and technical support to VACO, regional offices and medical center directors to maintain a high level of program activity.
• Other duties as assigned.

The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 100 applications. The first 100 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (100 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 100 in the order they applied.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Receives telephone calls from veterans, their family members and/or legal representatives concerning general information, directory assistance and complaint resolution. The services provided involve a broad range of topics that directly impact all three administrations with Veterans Affairs. The representative must ask clarifying and probing questions to capture the root cause of the customer's needs and ensure that the primary issue of the customer is identified as well as determine any other concerns or issues that may or may not be related.

Controls the conversation, in a courteous, empathetic, tactful, and respectful manner, to ensure that the caller's inquiry is resolved timely. Prepares well-defined and detailed case notes to effectively communicate the customer's needs and to increase the efficiency of a suitable resolution.

• Determines the appropriate VA services to meet the specific needs of customers.
• Establishes and maintains effective communication and working relationships across the full spectrum of Veterans Affairs.
• Interprets case resolution and feedback from various VA agencies for the customer.
• Triages cases that need immediate attention and alerts key stakeholders as needed.
• Maintains professionalism and controls the call while working under pressure when handling abusive, life-threatening or otherwise difficult calls.
• Asks appropriate and probing questions to identify complex or vague requests for VA services.
• Accurately records details of calls and other service requests in a limited time frame.
• Utilizes a multi-screen computer system including a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application, phone system, headset, facsimile machine and other office equipment.
• Identifies calls which must be referred to Veterans Crisis Line, Homeless Center, Department of Homeland Security Emergency Operations Center, White House Secret Service or to any higher-level VA staff.
• Respect the right of privacy and maintain confidentiality of callers.
• Simultaneously perform numerous customer service related duties while remaining focused on the needs of the customer.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills by effectively listening, empathizing and speaking with the customer to cultivate a rapport and trustworthy relationship.
• Determines most appropriate action or identifies alternative in resolving issue(s) interpretation and analysis of information contained within the knowledge management platform and several other resources.
• Utilizes resources through VA websites, Knowledge articles and wide variety of other applicable resources as needed
• Communicates with internal and external key contributors through Microsoft Outlook, Skype messaging system, Chatter groups located in the Customer Relationship Management system.
• Appropriately uses the Workforce Management System to listen to call recordings and enter exceptions to provide details of work-related activities.
• Responds to unusual questions or when reasonable attempts to satisfy an irate caller have been unsuccessful with limited or no assistance.

Customer Service Advisor

One Strawberry Lane (the best view of St James’ park)

Newcastle upon Tyne – Hybrid, two days in our One Strawberry Lane office based and 3 days at home (First four weeks will be full time office-based Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 17:00 pm)

Full Time – 37.5 hours per week Flexible shift rotation. Monday to Friday currently between 8:00 am till 6:00 pm on a shift rotation.

Starting salary: £23,464 pa, with great benefits which include a Health Cash Plan

Start date 25th November 2024

Home, a place where you belong

How about working for one of the top ten Workplace’s in the UK, according to the Great Place to Work 2024 National survey results?

Do you want to work in the most technologically advanced office building in the region? This is a building like no other in Newcastle.

Do you genuinely care, and get a buzz from helping people?

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better.

Home Group is a social enterprise that supports some of the most vulnerable in society, including people with mental and physical health issues. Are you up for a new challenge in supporting our customers?

If so, we are looking for brilliant new colleagues to join our European award-winning team. (I Know, that’s impressive!!) This isn’t “just” any old customer service role, we’re looking for “customer service heroes” to support our customers.

You bring

• You’re a positive, confident & enthusiastic communicator with the ability to handle objections.
• You’re resilient when faced with a challenge or when things don’t go to plan. Can you remain calm dealing with some distressing calls from customers who are relying on your help?
• You follow process when it’s important but can also think on your feet. We want a win-win for both our customer and the business.
• You care about our customers and give every customer the brilliant experience they deserve.
• You have strong customer service skills and excellent verbal and written language abilities. As well as calls our customers use email, Live chat, and social media to contact us. Have you experience using these tools?
• You’re comfortable leading the conversation and finding the right outcome for our customers.

Job details

• Full Time: Currently Monday to Friday between 8:00 am till 18:00 pm on a shift rotation.
• We staff bank holidays with volunteers, so if you’d like to be off, you probably can. You just need to request it.
• This leaves plenty time to attend our summer and Christmas parties, summer kid’s activities or discounted panto. We’d love you to get involved.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• All the “tech” you need to enable you to work effectively from either home or the office.
• Health Cash Plan saving you up to £1140 pa. We’ll cover your costs (and your kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescription charges, alternative therapies, and lots more.
• Competitive pension scheme with employer contributions
• Excellent career progression, through personal development plans and our “Grow our Own” development programme. Our management team all started their careers as customer service advisers.
• Shopping discounts & access to the Blue Light Card discount scheme
• Technology Purchase Scheme (That new TV or smartphone is a few clicks away!)
• Cycle to work and car scheme (bike storage, drying rooms and showers are available at our office)
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Time off for volunteering
• A wide range of engagement activities in the workplace led by our colleague engagement team.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Customer Service Advisor Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.

Email our Service Centre management team at sean.armstrong@homegroup.org.uk with any questions you may have and, we will get back to you asap. You can even arrange a time that suits you to pop into our awesome Head Office next to St James Park. Our café is the ideal place for a chat with one of the team and the cappuccinos are amazing!

Start date of 25th November 2024. You must be available for our Office based four-week training programme from that date.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

• Duties are listed at the full performance GS-12 level
• Provides Regional advice and guidance to line and staff officers and other program managers in all aspects of the unit's grants and agreements to federal and non-federal agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; and other varying entities.
• Provides advice and guidance on the administrative aspects of partnership agreements including cooperative agreements, cost-share agreements, participating agreements, collection agreements, interagency agreements, and cooperative fire agreements.
• Exercises full and final authority to negotiate grants and agreements within the limits of delegated authority, reviews all reimbursement requests for appropriateness, and processes payments.
• Provides interpretation of laws and regulations concerning use of Federal funds and qualifying program expenditures. Determines appropriate legislative and program authority prior to execution of each grant or agreement.
• Develops instruments within the delegated authority, circularizes requests for proposals for grants and agreements, reviews and analyzes responses, and makes or recommends acceptance by higher authority as appropriate.
• Monitors and analyzes the effect of changes in laws, regulations and policies pertaining to grants and agreements, administration and management, and performance reporting.
• Plans and conducts annual meetings or workshops for agency personnel for maintaining partnership agreement and grant expertise
• Approves all official correspondence sent to partners, program personnel, and other interested parties relating to any specific case.
• Terminates grants and agreements as the situation dictates. Closes out grants and agreements within the established closeout procedures.

• Reviews and analyzes records to improve centralized record functions, standardized handling, electronic data, document searches, and retention requirements and procedures.
• Plans and analyzes technology programs for effectiveness and efficiency to identify problems and provide recommendations for correction and/or improvement.
• Provides recommended updated requirements and specifications according to standard templates.
• Coordinates, researches, analyzes, and validates budget proposals to provide guidance regarding technology requirements.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Deliver and support internal and external communications and public outreach, coordinating and managing the implementation of all communications elements using both internal and external resources.
• Express facts and ideas both in writing and orally in a clear, concise, and organized manner that meets established standards for format and style and is appropriate for the intended audience.
• Ensure that announcements, invitations to bid, requests for information, requests for proposals, and related contractual documents in the administration of contracts are distributed and posted.
• Prepare personnel to speak effectively on program matters with the public, industry, and other interested groups.
• Oversee the communication of the necessary memoranda, dockets, and purchase plans, and ensures clearance with appropriate officials.
• Coordinate with the Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Food and Nutrition Service, and other Federal, State, and local government agencies to resolve complaints.
• Coordinates with the AMS FOIA Office and Subject Matter experts to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.

• Serves as nationally recognized expert on high performance sustainable buildings, energy/water/waste conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation and risk. Provides high level technical expertise to PBS personnel regarding special, unique and/or other Federal mandates associated with energy/water/storm water/waste management, and sustainability performance in real estate operations and related design and construction project activities. Provides authoritative advice and guidance and consultant support to senior GSA officials on designs, construction requirements, projects and/or building system operations.
• Establishes and implements high performance sustainable buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation, risk, and resilience policies, directives and guidelines for use across all organizational lines within PBS. Develops standards, training, and facilitates work to establish sustainability practices for all types of GSA facilities and activities. Assures that program goals, objectives, policies, activities and initiatives are executed in coordination with other Federal agencies, requirements, laws, Executive Orders and regulations.
• Provides independent analyses and evaluations of the effectiveness and efficiency of climate and sustainability operations in meeting the GSA’s objectives and goals. Creates policy and guidance and makes recommendations for changes, improvements, or modifications of program plans to meet changing situations and needs.
• Supervises and manages a staff in the performance of sustainability, climate and related work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates.

• Designs, develops, and delivers innovative training curriculum to enable compliance with mandated certification programs for the Acquisition Workforce (AWF).
• Provides oversight and direction to the Acquisition staff in preparing responses to audits, inspections and Administrative inquiries (FOIA’s) that come into the Portfolio.
• Participates in conducting training for the AWF to improve acquisition practices and in the formation and implementation of Center level strategies. Initiatives are developed and tailored for AWF implementation.
• Monitors and controls transactions, prepares special reports and recommends suggestions on modifying existing programs. Ensures acquisition policies and operating instructions are followed by the AWF.
• Assesses the skills, performance, productivity and talents of employees and preparing written evaluations with supporting advice for improvement and knowledge.
• Manages a team of students and the associated workload; trains junior contract specialists, works with peers to provide a consistent training experience to include both technical acquisition training and guidance, as well as a more broad introduction to GSA, healthy workplace practices such as team building, and soft-skills training.
• Ensures that the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
• Leads the team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload ensuring tasks are in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization; making adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; and ensuring that each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Provides expert advice for all pre-award and post-award functions and is involved with the planning and development of purchase and financial assistance programs and procedures.
• Determines both financial and technical responsibility of potential new vendors and assists those vendors through the process to become an approved vendor.
• Reviews and analyzes relevant production and price data and, where applicable, makes recommendations concerning the need for surplus removal purchase programs.
• Responsible for reviewing announcements, invitations to bid, requests for information, requests for proposals, and related contractual documents in the administration of contracts.
• Reviews, analyzes, and makes recommendations concerning various factors affecting ongoing purchase and other financial assistance operations.
• Works closely with minority business firms, small businesses, the Small Business Administration and the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.
• Recommends purchase and financial assistance programs relative to the full range of agricultural commodities.
• Examines Instrument and Notices of Assignment, invoices, claims, and other requests for payment for commodities provided to the Government.
• Develops procedures and overall contracting strategies to effectively accomplish unique acquisition programs including making independent decisions on complex problems.

Data Software Engineering and Security

• Serves as an expert data engineer and consultant, managing and directing multiple highly complex and innovative data engineering and information security projects and initiatives.
• Leverages data, programming, data visualization, and advanced analytic tools, skills, and techniques to support accomplishment of the organizational mission and facilitate the program’s adoption of data-driven information security, cybersecurity, and risk management approaches.
• Utilizes integrated development environment software for data engineering and visualization (e.g., R Studio, Visual Studio Code, Tableau, MicroStrategy), general purpose programming languages for statistical and data analysis (e.g., R, Python, Java, Scala), data structures, algorithms, and SQL (e.g., SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Engineers data automations and processes (e.g., building, testing, and deploying code) using programming languages and other tools to minimize human error and improve data security, reliability, efficiency, and quality for program/customer agency missions, goals, and future planning.
• Uses relevant programming language(s) as well as its packages or libraries for various applications to organize, manipulate, reuse, and/or scale data and for associated secure engineering functions and processes used in program office data operations.

Customer Communications and Reporting

• Provides authoritative advice on data engineering and security methodologies, products and services, and related analyses in discussions with program office managers, supervisors, data consumers, and coworkers.
• Determines appropriate data tools or services with clients or customers to define project scopes, requirements, and deliverables.
• Implements and/or maintains data engineering quality assurance processes.

Data Security Support

• Supports emerging IT and information security initiatives including but not limited to DevSecOps (i.e., development, security, and operations), continuous integration and continuous delivery, and vulnerability management, ensuring new technologies are appropriately accounted for from a data engineering and security perspective.
• Provides technical expertise and advice on the restructuring and/or re-architecting of program data collection storage and approach to ensure maximum visibility into risk while minimizing data collection and storage engineering overhead.

This position has job functions that must be executed within specific geographic locations. The official duty station is a federal facility, leased space, or an alternative worksite (typically the employee’s home) within the specified geographic area. If you are selected for this position, you will be expected to report to the duty station listed on this announcement within 45 days. At that time, you may be eligible to request to telework one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the agency’s telework policy.

Fleet Zone 4. The zone encompasses the following states: Region 9 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, or Nevada) & Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, or Washington)

You will perform the following duties:

• Responsible for and oversees all “zonal” program and administrative technical and support program operations and activities. Plans, directs, and coordinates assigned support programs within the designated geographic area. Responsible for developing, planning, managing, executing, and coordinating all support fleet management functions within assigned, designated geographic zone. Directs analysis of fleet management issues and required policy recommendations for management in formulating decisions regarding changing responsibilities or business needs, as well as in the design/development and evaluation. Obtains information necessary to discuss fleet management procedures internally to evaluate effectiveness of the program and its changes required to properly fulfill the fleet management overall program and regulatory requirements.
• Applies a wide range of qualitative, and/or quantitative methods to assess, measure, and improve fleet management program effectiveness and/or complex management processes, projects, and systems as they relate to assigned program areas. Directs the development of data and ensures implementation of the organization’s goals and objectives and presents recommendations to the Division Director regarding goals and objectives that require more emphasis. Reviews specific goals and objectives; monitors the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones and evaluates overall program accomplishment and significant contributions in terms of regional and agency goals.
• Provides technical requirements and descriptions of the work to be accomplished. Responsible for disciplinary measures, such as counseling, warnings and reprimands and recommends other actions in more serious cases. Identifies developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training. Responsible for developing performance standards to evaluate subordinate personnel, as well as serving as reviewing official of non-supervisory branch personnel rating recommendations provided and the rating official of record for subordinate supervisors.
• Analyzes program and personnel efficiency to make recommendations and implement changes when needed. Advises Branch personnel of program and regulatory requirements and changes.

• Serve as a focal point and point of control on the proper execution of Research Position Evaluation System (RPES) policies and practices and ensures reviews are completed.
• Provide analyses of pertinent data and review program and operational documentation, including regulations, policy, and other records to identify actual or potential problem areas.
• Track and monitor deadlines to ensure timeliness of action items.
• Administer internal review procedures to ensure that research plans are complete.
• Work with research progress reports, research proposals, Office of Scientific Quality Review (OSQR) Project Plans, extramural or external funding requests for research projects, Research Position Evaluation System (RPES) cases, and ethics documents.
• Work with research progress reports, research proposals, Office of Scientific Quality Review (OSQR) Project Plans, extramural or external funding requests for research projects, Research Position Evaluation System (RPES) cases, and ethics documents.