Outbound Calling Agent

Do you have experience of outbound calling in a call centre environment? Do you thrive on connecting with people and making a difference? Look no further Join our team as a fundraising call centre agent and contribute to world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. A world without heartbreak. **About the role** As a valued member of our Customer Engagement team, your role will be pivotal in driving our support and fundraising efforts through outbound calling. Your mission is to connect with our British Heart Foundation (BHF) supporters, who are the lifeblood of our organisation. Here’s how you’ll make a difference: - **Supporter Engagement Specialist**: Connecting with our BHF supporters through outbound calls. - **Fundraising Event Advocate**: Promoting major fundraising events like the London Marathon and the London to Brighton Bike Ride. - **Customer Experience Ambassador**:Enhancing satisfaction and relationships through stewardship activities. **We are looking to start someone in the this role on 4 December 2024.** **About you** - **Outbound Calling Experience**: You’ve honed your skills in a call centre environment, where you’ve built strong relationships over the phone. You can use your experience in this environment to enhance our customer experience and drive fundraising revenue. - **Exceptional Communication Skills**: Your written and spoken English is impeccable. You’ve previously experience engaging with customers both on calls and in writing. - **Tech Proficiency**: Your computer literacy is top-notch, you have experience with Microsoft Office, CRM systems, and data entry. - **O**utstanding Customer Service**: World-class customer service is your mantra. Your empathy and enthusiasm radiate, and your skills enable you to facilitate informative and engaging customer interactions. - **Attention to Detail**: You’re meticulous. Whether it’s accurately recording data or ensuring smooth operations, your administrative skills shine through. **Working **arrangements** This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our Birmingham office (B37 7YE). At the BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. **At the moment, the team typically go into the office once a week on a Wednesday**. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause. **What can we offer you?** When you join the BHF, you become part of our MyBHF Career Academy, where we'll help you grow, learn, and develop your career. We offer our staff generous benefits, such as: - 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays. - Private medical insurance, dental health cover, and money towards gym membership. - Pension scheme with employer contribution up to 10%. - Full pay for 12 weeks for family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption leave. - Life assurance. - Extra paid leave of up to 10 days to support colleagues who may need more time off work to look after themselves or others close to them. We care about the well-being of our employees through our Live Well. Work Well. Programme, which gives you activities, opportunities, and advice to help you live a healthy and happy life, both at home and at work. We embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage all our colleagues to be themselves. *** **About us** Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed. **What is the interview process?** We are planning first stage interviews to be a one way video interview. The second interview will be an assessment centre on 30th October 2024 at our Birmingham Office (B37 7YE). **How do I apply?** - Please internally this role is known as "Customer Engagement Advisor" - Please note that we are unlikely to be able to sponsor applicants in respect of this role due to the role not meeting the minimum salary criteria to be eligible for sponsorship._