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Temporary Receptionist
Job Description
Role profile
- Cover the residence's front desk and deliver the highest standards of customer care in line with Fit for Kings’ commitments.
- Cover all reception duties including checking in guests, keeping track of keys, greeting and directing all visitors and managing the phones and email accounts.
- Responsible for providing a professional, accurate, and efficient service to a wide range of people, including current residents, members of the public, colleagues, and external agencies.
- First-line complaint handling, offering, guidance, solutions, and, where necessary, escalation to the appropriate parties.
- Logging and monitoring maintenance requests and escalating jobs outside of the agreed service level agreement and providing appropriate feedback to residents.
- Ensure all policies and procedures are followed in regard to guests, visitors and visiting contractors/maintenance teams, signing in all visitors and making them aware of health and safety and fire responsibilities.
- Manage all incoming post and parcels following the relevant processes.
- Ensure housekeeping standards are high across the site, including the reception area and communal areas, bedrooms, laundry, etc.
- Active participation in team meetings and contribution to working practices to ensure effective service to residents.
- Work within a structured framework of all standard operating procedures.
- Provide operational support to ensure the effective delivery of a high volume of accommodation turnaround during Welcome to Kings and summer business.
- Carry out additional tasks and ad-hoc duties when required by the management team.
Communication & Networking
- Provide a range of support for students and the management team within residences.
- Provide an immediate source of guidance to residents and demonstrate an understanding of the range of resources within residences and campus.
- Professionally manage and respond to high volumes of written and verbal communication with residents and King’s departments.
- Provide accurate daily handovers to ensure vital information is shared between all teams and shifts.
- Responsible for handling a range of sensitive data in line with GDPR policies.
- Triage a wide range of information to appropriate people, for example, residence manager, security, welfare, and conduct teams with the appropriate discretion.
- Reporting maintenance matters, gathering detailed information from residents to report jobs directly in planon to ensure appropriate escalations.
Decision Making, Planning & Problem-Solving
- Work autonomously at the front desk and act as the custodian of residence on evenings and weekends and at other times whilst the manager is absent.
- Deal with a broad range of inquiries from students, and staff, managing visitors and contractors, etc.
- Manage daily handover to the housekeeping team/security and relevant departments.
- Provide first line response to emergencies such as fire, facilities outages, and serious resident welfare matters, and escalate appropriately following residence escalation policies.
- Complete weekly, daily site audits relating to health and safety, and cleanliness and communicate all findings to relevant parties.
- Conduct room/kitchen audits, flagging any issues or concerns to relevant people.
- Identify immediate health and safety concerns and escalate appropriately.
- Help the Residence Manager investigate resident conduct issues as and when appropriate.
Analysis & Research
- Input and extract data from a range of software functions such as Mercury, Planon, iAuditor, and KX to manage housekeeping and maintenance tasks.
- Management of data from planon to ensure that jobs remain in SLA.
Teamwork, Teaching & Development
- Collaboration with colleagues to manage daily reception duties.
- Provide orientation, job training and guidance for newer team members.
- Guide housekeeping team and contract cleaners (summer) on daily tasks and specific areas requiring focus.
- Present site updates at building together forums.
- Managing projects such as room inspections and delivery of green impact with minimum or no supervision.
- Orientation of students through the welcome period.
Physical Demands & Working Environment
- A mixture of high-concentration office-based and operational tasks.
- Manual handling requirements.
- Understanding of the risks involved in the working environment.
- Assessing site safety and security on regular inspections
Pastoral Care
- Demonstrate empathy and escalate any concerns for the resident’s well-being.
- Handle sensitive information concerning welfare-related incidents with appropriate levels of respect and confidentiality.
- Assist vulnerable residents.
- Ensure the safe evacuation of residents in the event of fire alarms.
- Provide support to residents requiring first aid assistance.
Qualifications
- A-Levels or suitable relevant experience
- Customer Service training or relevant experience
- Higher Education
- Hospitality Background
Skills
- Excellent Command of the English Language
- Strong I.T. Skills
- Hotel/Youth Hostel/Student Accommodation reception experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Knowledge of foreign languages
- Interpersonal skills
- Be friendly, Smiley, sociable and welcoming to our students to create a great atmosphere
- Ability to comprehend complex issues quickly
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Main duties and responsibilities
- To provide a customer focused first point of contact to students, staff and private landlords, the public and other external bodies, judging when to pass on or escalate complex queries.
- To check all applications received for housing eligibility, and issue relevant and timely feedback to applicants.
- To represent Housing Services at all Queen Mary internal and external events, particularly at main residential arrival and departure days, to provide and sustain a positive image for Residential Services
- To manage and keep updated the Housing Services team diaries.
- To check the accuracy and relevance of information and imagery on the Residential Services website..
- To provide administrative support to the Housing Services team.
- To advise the Head of Housing Services on noticeable trends in customer enquiries.
- To be flexible at key times within the university calendar to support the delivery of services that will be outside normal business hours, which will include working in the evenings and at weekends
- To comply with all Queen Mary and Directorate policies and procedures and demonstrate a commitment to the Directorate purpose statement and values
- To implement recognised good practice in communication and cohesion, to promote the culture and behavioural change programme that has been embarked upon by the Directorate.
Qualifications
GCSE, NVQ (Level 3) or City and Guilds in English and Maths or equivalent
Skills
- Significant experience working within an HEI or privately built student residential environment
- Significant experience working in a customer service environment providing exceptional customer service
- Understanding of the relevant regulations and national codes of practice and the implications of non-compliance
- Experience managing conflicts, resolving or escalating complaints, with the ability to use own initiative to handle difficult situations with tact and sensitivity
- Familiarity with budgeting and financial management
- Knowledge and understanding of HEI Admissions systems, key dates and SITS student record system
- Knowledge of the private sector housing market
Skills/Abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with staff and external contacts at all levels
- Computer literate with a good knowledge of Microsoft Office software, particularly Excel
- Able to plan, manage and monitor a variety of commitments, balancing workloads to meet service demands
- Excellent attention to detail and a systematic approach to work
- Friendly, approachable, diplomatic and able to relate to people
- Flexible attitude and willing to learn, develop and improve both individually or as part of a team
Other
- Able to deal with personal, private and confidential issues with appropriate discretion (Data Protection Act)
- Able to manage job role in line with customer expectation of Equality and Diversity Policy
- Able to identify resolutions to problems and utilise analytical skills
About us
The Data Governance and Security team with SED develops, maintains, and supports system and process security, data governance, data protection compliance, regulatory reporting, and external and internal audit requirements. The team ensures that strategies and procedures in relation to these areas are fit for purpose and is responsible for providing a ‘gold source’ of all student and course information data to ensure best practice.
About the role
The Senior Student Data Assurance Officer will provide assurance and operational support to colleagues engaged in both internal/external reporting and in business as usual activites that rely on the quality of our student data. This will entail the provision of end-to-end administrative support in triaging enquiries, resolving student data quality issues, supporting the statutory HESA data return (submitted in August and September 2024) by fixing data errors and supporting the generation of HEARs (online transcripts) for students.
This would be an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is interested in gaining experience in working with data, making operational use of IT programmes such as Excel and SQL and who wish to utilise their skills to ensure that the quality of our student data is accurate and of the highest quality.
This is a temporary role, with an end date of 8th November 2024.
Qualifications
We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in data management or analytics. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training
Skills
The following skills would be essential in the role:
-Excellent IT skills, including experience of Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook email, web etc.)
-Good communication skills and a willingness to work in a team, with multiple stakeholders
-The ability to deal with competing priorities
Experience of SQL and using a student records system would be desirable
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