View Vacancy - Consular Contact Centre Shift Leader (ESP20.151) - (INTERNAL CAMPAIGN ONLY)
The British Consular Network in Spain is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas and is now looking for one Consular Contact Centre Shift Leader to Malaga. The purpose of this job is to provide first contact to our consular customers across the globe by answering calls, through digital communication, via email and social media. Provide detailed advice, signpost to relevant competent authorities or escalate as required to stakeholders. The jobholder will need to record all information relating to calls & emails and ensure this information is up to date and accurate. The jobholder will also need to deal with Crisis, GCT and GRC calls; update tools used by the GCCC for resource management, resilience and business as usual needs; and resolve calls and lead on carrying out UAT and other technical tests for new applications to be used by the contact centre.
The jobholder will also be required to train the contact centre staff on new systems and lead the shifts. In addition, the jobholder will also need to liaise with the global contact centre team to carry out these responsibilities.This position involves unsocial hours and shift patters will reflect this.
Main responsibilities will include:
Customer Contact
- Responsible for receiving calls and emails during shift time, responding accordingly and recording actions taken, Shift Leaders will deal with difficult customers and complaints (escalations);
- Logging cases on our database, passing calls and cases to Consulates around the Network;
- Leading on all aspects of first contact with a focus on enquiry handling.
Resource Management
Prepare weekly rosters by taking into account the following
- Contact Centre staff absences/ post closures and staff language skills. To ensure that there are language speakers available;
- Prepare data in relation to all key performance indicators (KPI);
- Analyse data and call patterns to ensure that adequate staffing is maintained at all times.
Stakeholder / Post Management
- Responsibility for ensuring core scripts and guidance are consistent with FCO policy and service in line with SLA;
- Responsibility for Post Essential Information (PEI) and contact information, ensuring it is accurate and up to date. Developing our scripts and essential tools to ensure handlers are able to provide essential information for over 100 countries.
Customer Knowledge Management
- Assisting the Customer Experience Team with call data received, ensuring that all data is recorded accurately and anomalies reported for action;
- Being a key part of our customer knowledge management and quality control initiatives, helping to collate accurate feedback on what our customers are saying and helping to test the quality of our service.
- Fluency in English (C level according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages*), verbal and written, with excellent communications skills;
- Intermediate level of the Microsoft Office suite;
- Availability to work unsocial hours;
- Strong customer service skills;
- Good geographical knowledge;
- Desirable qualifications and experience;
- Any other language will be an advantage.
- Previous experience working with a contact centre or customer service environment.
This is a fixed-term full-time position for 6 months. The candidate will work on a shift-rotation basis (i.e. varying work schedule each week) from Monday – Sunday including unsociable hours and compressed shift patterns. The candidate will need to be available to work some Public Holidays. The exact working hours and shifts will be laid down by the Contact Centre in Malaga but the centre is open 24/7 and working patterns will reflect this.
The successful candidate is subject to a confirmation of a background check, security clearance and the successful completion of a probationary period.
The successful candidate will be enrolled in the Spanish Social Security Scheme and will therefore not be entitled to any gratuity from the Embassy / Consulate based on gross annual salary.
Regarding taxation, the Consulate in Malaga is part of the British Mission in Spain, and as such supervised by the British Embassy. The Embassy is a Diplomatic Mission with tax exempt status and does not collect taxes for other States. Employees are fully responsible for payment of Spanish income tax at the legally required rate. Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy in Spain are subject to terms and conditions of service according to local Spanish employment law.
Visa / Passport requirements: Candidates must currently hold the independent right to live and work in Spain and be prepared to ensure that right remains throughout the scope of the contract. Additional requirements may become necessary after 31st December 2020.
Please be advised that Consular positions at the FCO entail dealing with casework in situations that may involve death, detention, rape, assault, post-mortems, prison visits and highly distressed customers. Candidates should therefore have a high level of resilience to trauma.
Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.
We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.
Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.
FCO does not pay for travel related expense incurred in interviews (including Security Check) or accept any financial risk, including cancelation or reschedule costs. The FCO will not meet the costs connected with relocation if offered a position.
* Please note Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment indicates Level C2 as Mastery or proficiency Level which comprehends that a person can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read; can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation; can express themselves spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations. For more information please click on the following link CEFR. Please bear in mind in case you are invited for an interview your languages skills are going to be assessed.
This opportunity is closed to applications.
