Customer Service Specialist
Reston, VA, United States
Position Title: Customer Service Specialist
Location: Reston, VA
Duration: 3-6 months assignment
About the Opportunity
As a Customer Service Specialist you are responsible for speaking with our customers: students, educators and higher education staff; answering questions and requests specific to client's assessment programs. Key support is preparing our partners for both in-person/paper and pencil and digital assessments, you ensure they have the information and resources they need to successfully administer client assessments. For other educators and higher education partners you assist with ensuring they have the access and support needed for online tools. You have a knack for asking the right questions to pinpoint a client's needs and for helping guide customers to the policies and resources needed to resolve their questions and challenges. When our customers, schools, district, state, and higher educator professionals have a positive customer experience and smooth test administration, it's because of the exceptional customer service you provided!
Responsibilities:
Customer Service (85%) Be an expert in Client policy and processes that impact customers and the operational procedures necessary to resolve customer inquiries.
Respond to customer inquiries and test day issues via telephone and e-mail in a manner consistent with Client policies, procedures, and competencies.
Instruct customers on how to order Client assessments and products.
Building relationships across internal customers to meet support needs.
Process orders and capture payments from student, educator, and higher education customers.
Process billing requests for select lines of business.
Manage assigned cases within service level commitment and perform customer follow up as needed.
cknowledge and address all customer inquiries on time.
Special Projects and Assignments (15%) Provide operational readouts and status on customer inquiries and trends within Client and/or externally with customers.
ssist with customer outreach for special projects.
Provide input to the voice of the customer initiative helping to drive continuous improvement and improved customer experience.
Perform other related duties and projects as assigned.
Required Skills: Minimum 1- 2 years customer service experience and ability to handle high volume call and email inquiries.
Experience supporting K-12 educational customers, higher education, or unique contractually required support.
Solid organizational, time & task management skills that enable you to work within aggressive timelines and with extremely sensitive assessment cases.
Flexibility and desire to quickly adapt to new methods and learn new methods and tools.
Strong problem-solving ability: able to ask the right questions and identify the proper solutions.
passion for supporting educational and career opportunities for millions of students.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate policies and resolutions.
bility to learn multiple customer service and operational system applications.
Knowledge of various tools: Microsoft Office (required), Smartsheets (preferred), Salesforce (preferred).
ssociate degree (preferred).