Grants Enquiry Advisor - Harlow, United Kingdom - Motability Foundation

Description

Salary: £23,000 to £27,000 per annumLocation: Based at our office in Harlow, Essex.Do you have a passion for delivering excellent customer service and thrive in helping and supporting others? If yes, please get in touch
What you'll be doing:

• Act as the first point of contact for beneficiaries, dealing effectively with requests, answering queries and taking responsibility for processing each enquiry through to a satisfactory conclusion.
• Work with internal departments to ensure the beneficiary experience is at the highest level.
• To contact beneficiaries in accordance with agreed procedures.
• · To continuously improve the service we offer by providing feedback on trends and improving own approach based on beneficiary feedback and call monitoring.
• Deliver excellent telephone communication by following our GET principles (Get me, Get the plot, Get it done and Get in control)
• Ensure case notes are compiled accurately and relevant databases updated and maintained in line with data retention and data protection guidelines.
• Ensure beneficiaries are fully appraised of next steps and understand resolution proposed.
• Manage beneficiary interactions effectively and follow through on actions required, in line with performance objectives.
• Investigate all contact from beneficiaries thoroughly, understanding the root cause of issues or problems in order to provide the right resolution.
• Proactively identify opportunities for continuous improvement – ways in which we can work better for our beneficiaries and the charity.
• Participate in other projects and initiatives as required.
• Support business requirements and where necessary provide support to other areas of the business.
• Provide administrative duties as required.
• Working collaboratively across the contact centre, supporting colleagues when needed.

About you:

Must haves:

• Experience in a contact centre environment.
• Experience in investigation and information gathering.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Ability to accurately compose letters and case notes.
• Experience of using customer databases (CRM).
  

Nice to haves:

• Experience of dealing with front line customer complaints.
• Case management experience.
• Experience of working with digital channels such as web chat and email.
• Knowledge or lived experience of disability in either personal or professional life.

Motability Foundation

At Motability Foundation we fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Foundation Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year.

We award grants to other charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Benefits

WHAT MOTABILITY CAN OFFER YOU

A career with Motability can offer you so much more than earning potential. We pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits and a culture to match, some of which includes;

Holiday – 26 Days + 8 Bank Holidays, increasing to 28 days after 5 years' service

Health and Wellbeing – We offer private health care with BUPA alongside an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and discounted corporate gym membership. We take your physical AND Mental Health seriously, with our dedicated mental health first aiders you will have support and understanding from your colleagues.

Family Friendly – We offer enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay and we understand that families require flexibility, we provide time off for dependants, flexible working hours and the option to work from home. Life Assurance is 4 x your salary.

Diversity and Inclusion - We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves, no matter their age, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity or otherwise. This is embedded in to our values and we celebrate our differences and create awareness throughout the year.

Celebrating Success – We love to recognise people that go above and beyond with our Spotlight Award as well as having team celebrations and social events throughout the year.

Our culture - In the Motability office we "dress for our day", it's an incredibly welcoming and inclusive environment where we look to support your career, we offer a mini bus service from Harlow Town centre and station for those using public transport to reach us and there are plenty of free hot beverages for when you arrive.

Pension – Up to 15%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%

How to find out more?

To find out more regarding the vacancy and for the full job description, please contact our Talent Team at:

Here at Motability Foundation, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability.

We are a disability confident employer, so please do make us aware of any reasonable adjustments you might need throughout both the recruitment process and to work with us.

We are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you have applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we will offer you an interview.