Service Desk Agent

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Birmingham Full time

**Position Details**

Academic Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £25,866 to £27,518, with potential progression once in post to £30,820

Grade 4

Full Time, Fixed Term Contract (18 Months)

Closing date: 30th November 2023

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

**Role Summary**

The LRAT Service Desk is a vital part of LRAT’s commitment to our uniquely tight 10 minute response SLA, but is very small having just 2 staff. The Service Desk typically resolves 40% of problems and faults reported, without recourse to technical team response.. The 2 agents also check rooms, validate fix reports, and produce and keep current guidance in both paper and electronic forms.

**Main Duties**

**Service Desk**
- Liaise with the University’s Estates Maintenance Office to ensure that all reported faults are dealt with in a timely manner. This task includes checking the validity of problem resolution messages.
- Produce and keep current documentation and information for room users, both in electronic and traditional formats.
- Participating in major incident management and major problem management in line with ITIL methodologies.
- Use remote control tools - including GoTo LogMeIn and Extron Global Viewer Enterprise - to resolve faults.
- Periodically check rooms for faults and status, making recommendations for room upgrades.
- Administer the University’s Zoom service, including dealing complex licensing requests.
- You may develop specialist knowledge in one area within the team. This will allow ensure all job-related knowledge is documented and available to all colleagues.
- You will write articles for the Service Desk Knowledge Base and LRAT’s Sharepoint site.

**General**
- You will be responsible for ordering tasks within your workload, and can refer to your line manager if required. You will co-ordinate with other team members to meet overall LRAT priorities.
- Proactively liaising with members of other technical teams to aid in the timely resolution of AV, IT, Furnishing and Building faults, ensuring resolution details are recorded for future reference.
- Troubleshooting problems, assessing them and identifying solutions. You will refer more complex problems to more senior team members for in-depth specialist advice when necessary.
- You will use your knowledge to deal with the main areas of remote assistance software.
- Undertaking such other duties as may be required from time to time in furtherance of the work of Academic Services.
- Supporting equality and values diversity, moderates own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.

**Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience**
- 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or above, including Mathematics and English (or equivalent level 2 vocational qualifications including demonstrable examples of the required leve

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