Customer Support Analyst

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Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Customer Support Analyst will be responsible for responding to customer requests by diagnosing and resolving problems and for supporting the ongoing technology needs of all employees by providing help desk support. You will work with a broad range of infrastructure products and basic networking components. You will provide maintenance and support for moderately to highly complex client products and work on one or more projects concurrently as a team member.

IT Officer will respond to requests for IT support, logging problems, generating trouble tickets, attempting to diagnose and resolve problems, and if necessary, escalating the problem to the appropriate level of expertise.

This specific IT Office position is to support the London Executive Office of WVI.

SERVICE DESK:

• First point of contact and day-to-day technical support to end users.

• Responds to Level 2 support and works with vendors on Level 3 support.

• Generates activity and status reports.

• Provides the user access service.

• Researches trouble issues which affect multiple clients.

• Reviews checklists and scripts.

• Works with vendor technical support personnel on solutions for clients.

SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT:

• Collaborates in the development of service-level objectives and takes steps to meet or exceed targets.

• Monitors service-level objectives to ensure that requirements are met or exceeded.

• Makes recommendations to approve performance and client satisfaction metrics.

• Follows up in a timely manner to ensure customer satisfaction.

SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Tracks performance metrics.
• Reviews tracking log to identify recurring problems, or problems affecting a large number of clients.
• Develops procedures and controls for service improvements.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT:

• Engages the hardware vendors on issues to remedy issues or escalates for support.
• Diagnoses and resolves client workstation and mobile device hardware and software issues.
• Creates temporary solutions until permanent solutions can be implemented. Coordinates the resolution of escalated application, hardware and software problems.

PROJECT PLANNING:

• Provides input during project planning and requirements phase.

CLIENT TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT:

• Participates in deployment of new or upgrade information technology and infrastructure projects, including assisting co-workers and vendor partners.
• Installs and performs minor repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment, following design or installation specifications.
• Updates configuration management tools.
• Develops and documents procedures for performing configuration changes, updates and upgrades.
• Provides on-going support of client technology.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Creates, modifies and reviews documentation of issues resolutions.
• Develops and delivers documentation to ensure appropriate end-user support.
• Creates and submits documented resolution to Knowledge Base.
• Updates manuals/guides to incorporate new recommended products.

COMMUNICATIONS/CONSULTING:

• Alerts team members about recurring problems.
• Communicates technical information to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Advisory role on Equipment purchases

TRAINING:

• Trains co-workers on new or existing functionality or services.
• Identifies customer training needs based on common problems.
• Help Improve the overall digital literacy and dexterity of colleagues.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Industry related certificates (i.e. Cisco CCSA, Microsoft MCSE etc.) or related IT work experience
• Demonstrated working knowledge of basic to moderately complex hardware and software products and problem solving / diagnostic skills
• Minimum 1-2 year of experience in providing IT services to different profile of customers in business environment.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of basic to moderately complex hardware and software products and problem solving / diagnostic skills.
• Proven technical computer skills in Microsoft Office Software, different antivirus solutions, network environment, cloud backup and restore system.
• Fluent in verbal and written English language. Any other language will be considered an advantage.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only