Senior Assessment Service Consultant - Abingdon, United Kingdom - RM Education Limited

RM Education Limited
RM Education Limited
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Abingdon, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Overview:

About RM

At RM we provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting schools, teachers and learners, with one goal, to improve education outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps all levels of the industry, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification, our customers include schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions.

We have a clear purpose to enrich the lives of learners worldwide.


The Senior Assessment Service Consultant is responsible for the organisation and delivery of the operational services for one or more customers, as a member of the Assessment Service Management Team.

It is a customer facing role and will require liaising with both operational counterparts within customer and supplier organisations, and when appropriate senior customer and supplier stakeholders.


The role will involve managing the service to our customers in a matrix managed environment, co-ordinating activities across a number of functions and teams, managing the reporting required and delivering the service to contractual commitments.

For example, the Assessment Service Consultant will have an operational relationship with their customers and manage the reports and operational service for them, even though the commercial aspects are owned by the Customer Relationship Manager.

Similarly, the Senior Assessment Service Consultant will need to ensure all supplier tasks are completed in accordance with agreed service levels and timescales and when appropriate escalating to the Supplier Management team.


You will work closely with our Customer Relationship Managers to constantly evolve and improve the service we provide, to achieve this you will need both a process and customer/supplier orientated background.


Responsibilities:


Delivery

  • Responsible for the delivery of the eAssessment / eMarking service from planning through to reconciliation to closure including input into servicebased risk management.
  • Managing targeted testing for your customer(s), internal RM service readiness planning and ensuring customer readiness plans are complete.
  • You will be responsible for managing the service, with key milestones clearly identified and progress tracked.
  • Using matrix management, you will need to influence resources outside of your immediate team.
  • Support the system users by overseeing the escalation of queries, via investigation and interaction with internal teams or thirdparty suppliers.
  • Oversee the delivery of a consistently highquality service ensuring all activities that are required are completed within the agreed timelines (e.g. quality checks, reconciliation activities, incident tickets, service requests).
  • Be the first point of operational contact with the customer. This will involve ad hoc requests, updates, and initial escalations, as well as contribution to the internal risk and issues register. Deliver a high level of customer care, providing regular updates and resolving any issues in a timely fashion.
  • Responsible for the performance of your customer's service against operational level agreements and contractual service level agreements and act on underperformance. Provide regular feedback to the internal customer team and assist in the production of and review the operational SLA report for your customer.

Service Improvement

  • Analyse performance to identify CSI opportunities.
  • Responsible for internal process improvement activities for your customer(s) and / or team (continual improvement) and contribute to strategic improvement activities.
  • Deliver the internal Continual Improvement processes for your customer(s). This should include input from all teams (i.e. Helpdesk, Assessment Service Delivery, Application Support, Solution Architects, Technical Operations & Customer Relationship Managers).
  • Contribute to new service introductions across Operations to ensure best practice across customers.
  • Be responsible for the maintenance and delivery of the Continual Service Improvement Plan for your customer(s), liaising with the wider operations teams, Customer Relationship Managers, Solution Architect and Development teams when appropriate.

Experience:

This role will have exposure to one or more of the Assessment division's customers at an operational level. This is a key role enabling the operational delivery of the service.

Central to ensuring the operational delivery of the service is building effective relationships with stakeholders internally within RM and with customers and third-party suppliers.


Internal Relationships

  • Customer Relationship Manager responsible for ensuring the contract commitments are delivered to their customer
  • Functional Managers (Operations and Suppliers) responsible for delivering the service


  • Functional Teams

  • Helpdesk, Technical Operations, Application Support, Supplier Team in the delivery of the service
  • Project Managers and Solution Architects in
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