Customer Comms Officer - Liverpool, United Kingdom - The Riverside Group

The Riverside Group

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 day ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Customer Comms Officer

Contract Type:
Permanent

Salary:
£31,614 (£34,941 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)

Working Hours:35 hours per week

Working Pattern:
Monday - Friday

Location:
Speke , Liverpool (Hybrid)

Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we're a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers.

For 90 years, we've been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK.

Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you'll enjoy:

Competitive pay & generous pension
28 days holidays plus bank holidays (Full Time Equivalent)
Flexible working options available
Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
A wide range of benefits

**The difference you will make as a Customer Comms Officer
**The role holder will be the lead on communication with colleagues and customers on behalf of the building safety department. You support in the development of a communication strategy. Manage reactive communication on repairs, compliance and incidents and work collaboratively with key stakeholders to keep customers and colleagues up to date. Support communication on key incidents to colleagues and customers and work with partner organizations. Support developing documentation, literature, and feed into campaigns etc.

About you

We are looking for someone with:

Knowledge of communication channels and methodology to provide proactive communications and reactive communication to colleagues and customers.

- knowledge Contact relationship management systems (CRM) and social media channels.

Experience of producing internal communications and briefings to deliver key messages

Role requires you to:

Plan, organize and manage marketing campaigns, promotional events, and projects from conception through to completion, in line with agreed requirements and corporate brand guidelines.
Support in the development of customer and colleagues literature and promotional material to market our services and keep customer informed and ensure that it is distributed effectively to targeted audiences.
Utilize appropriate and available communications channels to ensure key messages reach target audiences at agreed intervals, in line with corporate guidelines.
Build and maintain positive relationships with customers, colleagues, partners, and external stakeholders.
Attend events organized for customers, partners and external agencies and support the building safety team on customer engagement events.
Support team leader and manager on staff comms, including staff newsletters, monthly updates, and reactive communications.
To support the Team leader, develop, implement, and maintain all systems within Customer Services team.
Support the Customer Resolution team leader communicate with customers on complaint cases and the outcome of complaints to customers and liaise with colleagues and 3 rd parties to obtain relevant information and updates.
Review lessons learned from enquiries, complaints, and work with teams to develop proactive communications to reduce contacts etc. and support on customer complaints where required.
Build sustainable relationships and engage customers, stakeholders, and colleagues by going the extra mile and role modelling Our Riverside Way values
Deal with enquiries from customer in relation to outstanding works and provide reactive updates to customers including repairs, compliance, and remedial works.
Undertake investigations to obtain updates from colleagues, external suppliers and 3rd party partner organizations and update customers.
Incident management and business continuity inform customers
Provide a supporting role on our internal website, RIC and updating content.
Support Contractors and Colleagues to gain access to customers homes and shared spaces.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

Experience of working within a customer service or safety environment dealing with customer contacts and communications.
Customer focused with excellent written Strong phone and verbal communication skills along with active listening and the ability to work at all levels within the business
Knowledge of communication channels and methodology to provide proactive communications and reactive communication to colleagues and customers.

- knowledge Contact relationship management systems (CRM) and social media channels.

Customer focus and adaptability to different personality types
Ability to multitask, set priorities and manage time effectively
Experience of producing internal communications and briefings to deliver key messages

**Desirable*