IT Service Desk Customer Service Apprentice

3 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University of Birmingham Full time

**Position Details: Apprentice IT Service Desk Support Analyst**

IT Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary £17,640. per annum, rising to £22,050. per annum after 12 months service

Apprentice Band 400

Full time / Fixed Term for 15 months

Apprenticeship Standard: Customer Service Level 2

Training Provider: Hit Training

**Main duties the apprentice will learn:
- Providing first line IT support to staff, students, and visitors, via all the Service Desk’s contact methods.
- Ensuring all contact with users is recorded accurately in the IT Service Management tool.
- Identifying trends within recent and ongoing issues by monitoring incoming incident records and collaborating with colleagues.
- Utilising skills, experience, and documented knowledge to provide solutions to users for the majority of reported issues.
- Accurately triage more complex or time-consuming issues to other support teams, by building a thorough understanding of our services and support teams.
- Developing a broad understanding of the University’s organisational structure, business functions, strategic aims, and key stakeholders to accurately assess the impact of issues.
- Participating in ITIL-based Incident and Problem Management in line with documented processes.
- Updating the IT Services Status Page and social media in response to service outages.
- Occasionally carrying out remote desktop support to resolve minor issues.
- Ensuring that technical solutions are documented within the IT Service Management tool for future reference.
- Being an advocate for our users and escalate whenever IT support is falling below expected levels, to ensure issues are resolved in acceptable timescales and excellent customer service is delivered.
- Contributing to the creation and maintenance of knowledge base articles, ensuring documentation is easy to follow, written in Plain English and tailored to the correct audience.
- Any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with your position within IT Services or to help deliver excellent customer service.
- Supports equality and values diversity, moderates own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.

**Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
- Minimum GCSE grade C / 4 in English Language and Mathematics (or equivalent level 2 vocational qualifications including demonstrable examples of the required level of literacy and numeracy).
- A commitment to excellent customer service.
- Good oral and written communication with the ability to tailor responses to specific audiences.
- The ability to work effectively as a member of a team towards quality service goals and deadlines.
- The ability to prioritise and schedule workload in the face of conflicting demands.
- A structured and methodical approach to troubleshooting and problem solving.
- A willingness to adopt and champion new ways of working.
- An understanding of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- The ability to identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant policies and procedures
- A basic working knowledge in _one _of the following (and familiarity with the other):

- Microsoft Windows
- Mac OS X
- Basic knowledge of mobile devices including tablets and smartphones.
- The ability to maintain an open and approachable demeanour.
- The ability to maintain a high level of accuracy under pressure.

**This apprenticeship would suit**:
The apprenticeship would suit an individual with a positive attitude towards the provision of exceptional customer service in a demanding IT environment. They will be a people person, polite, approachable and welcoming, able to talk to customers face to face, over the phone or via electronic medium. They will be confident, able to build strong relationships with team members and customers. They will be hard working, calm under pressure with a strong desire to learn.

**Dimensions**

You will have no financial or staff management responsibility. The role is focused on delivering excellent customer service by working collaboratively with colleagues.

**Planning and Organising**

Contact points are assigned according to a rota. You will assign and prioritise your own workload and are expected to work in line with documented prioritisation guidelines to ensure issues are resolved within customer expectations.

You will need to maintain an overview of other contact points and the workload of colleagues and react appropriately to changes in demand and refer workload issues to your manager.

**Problem Solving and Decision Making**

You will use your skills, experience, and documented knowledge, to match solutions to user issues. A basic level of troubleshooting will be learned.

You will be required to assess the impact of issues on the business functions of the University quickly and accurately, and prioritise and escalate issues where required.

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