Customer Experience Assistant Receptionist

2 days ago

Didcot, United Kingdom OI Space Full time

**Location**: Harwell Innovation Centre

**Role**: Fixed-term to cover Maternity for 9 months

**Hours**: Part-time, working Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 08:30 - 17:00

**Salary**: £9.90 per hour, £19,305 pa, pro rata

Making sure our customers have the best experience in our innovation Centres is a real team effort and as a member of the Centre managementteam, you’ll be a key part in this. You will welcome everyone to Harwell Innovation Centre.

Oxford Innovation’s Innovation Centres division operates a network of centres that provide flexible office and laboratory space and business support services to companies throughout the UK.Our clients are start-ups, high growth SMEs, investors and alsopublic sector organisations that contract with us to deliver innovation centres and programmes to business.We now manage nearly thirty centres across the UK for a variety of public and private sector clients, providing space and support to nearly 1000 exciting,innovative and growing companies.

At Harwell Innovation Centre the Customer Experience Assistant is the person who makes the difference. Our customers are busy entrepreneurs, building their own businesses, so should expect from us great service, a warm welcome and a freshly brewed tea orcoffee when they need it.

That’s why we are looking for someone who can convey energy to our customers, a sparkling, enthusiastic, proactive person who feels part of the centre community and is willing to go the extra mile. Happy working in a team or on your own you’ll show pridein your work, making sure the innovation centre always looks the part and always looking for something new to challenge you.

**What will you do?**
- Be the first and last point of contact for our customers and their guests
- Welcome all our customers, visitors and meeting room guests with an authentic enthusiasm and smile in a friendly, professional natural manner
- Responsible for opening the centre in the morning and closing the centre at the end of the day
- Manage keys and passes (activation/ deactivation) for customers
- Handle all daily incoming and outgoing mail for customers
- Booking and recording all requests for meeting rooms and events, arranging refreshments and other support needed
- Support the Centre Manager with event planning and hosting
- Monitor the meeting room agenda and act as a host for our coffee morning and external events
- Keep our social media feeds and pages such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn up to date with all the exciting news from OI, the centre customers and events we are hosting, engage and build relationships online
- Make sure the Harwell Innovation Centre website is up to date with all the latest news and views
- Ensuring all centre equipment is in good working order - including for example coffee machines, printers, photocopiers and AV
- Maintaining and monitoring of useful consumables and stationery, so we never run out of toilet roll, paper, coffee and paperclips
- Record any chargeable ad hoc services customers or their guests need
- Support our customers with tasks varying from arranging a courier, using the coffee machine, print jobs, ordering office supplies or even booking a restaurant for that important meeting
- Maintaining tidiness of the community areas in the centre
- Support customers with local area knowledge - restaurants, bars, events etc
- Act as back up for the Assistant Centre Manager and Centre Manager for all kinds of administrative tasks
- Help us with your ideas on how we can keep improving our services

**What are you like?**
- A confident and enthusiastic person able to mix with all types of people and to provide a friendly, natural professional public image
- Pro-active
- Great IT skill with experience of using a range of technology
- Conscientious and efficient with an eye for detail and pride in their work
- Great as part of a team as well as working on their own when the need arises
- Flexible - willing to do what it takes to make the centre a success

**What’s in it for you?**
- Salary of £9.90 per hour
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays, pro rata
- Flexible benefits package comprising:

- Contributory pension
- Ability to increase or decrease amount of annual leave
- Ability to increase or decrease amount of life assurance cover
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Health screening
- Bicycle purchase
- Charitable Giving
- Friendly, informal and flexible working environment - so you can make the most of your home and your work life
- We want you to have chances to progress to Assistant Centre Manager and so we will support you in learning new skills and taking the next steps in your career.
- We’ve also got access to a whole load of discounts so you can save money on high street favourites and holiday providers.

If you think you could be a great member of team and would like an exciting opportunity in return, then this is the role you have been looking for - click **‘apply’** today to become our new **Customer Experience Assistant**or to find out more information about the role. We would love to hear from you

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