Technical Support Officer

Technical Support Officer

Camden


To provide effective and efficient administrative support to the professional and technical officers. The role will involve dealing with the public and service users and to ensure high standards of quality and customer care and timeliness in carrying out these functions. To make suggestions for improvements in service delivery if appropriate and to participate in the redesign of systems processes and procedures.


Responsibilities

To provide a front line team response to incoming calls, dealing efficiently, effectively and courteously with callers in person or by telephone and taking messages as appropriate. To deal with unhappy customers and difficult circumstances in an effective manner on a regular basis.

To undertake a range of business administrative functions and ensure databases, systems and manual records are maintained with relevant information ensuring data is accurate, up to date and is handled confidentially and sensitively in compliance with the Data Protection Act.

To assist colleagues with research and compose briefings, letters and service information as required. Typing of documents, official orders, formal approvals and rejections for a large volume of correspondence, standard letters, paragraphs and clauses ensuring adherence to council policy and guidance for written formats and information sharing. To disseminate information as required.

To assist the Support Manager in training new staff or less experienced staff as well as informing on the performance of new staff. To carry out regular quality checks, manual or electronic. To act on the results of such checks. To ensure that there are adequate supplies of office stationery and that furniture and equipment (such as faxes, photocopiers etc) are maintained and functional at all times. To report all faults and hazards immediately.

To input, update, maintain and retrieve data regarding the Building Control Customer Service Survey's software and to create a quarterly report that is published in the news page of the service's web page. To retrieve data and create monthly and weekly reports regarding Building Control information to be distributed to internal and external partners ensuring accuracy and timely execution of all tasks.