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Person Specification: Customer Experience Assistant

Roles and Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Front of House Duties: 

  • Cover front-of-house duties in an efficient, professional, and courteous manner, ensuring all visitors are warmly welcomed
  • Build and maintain positive relationships with visitors, staff, and tenants at our centres, to ensure a high-quality customer experience. Respond to a wide range of enquiries (phone, email, face-to-face) professionally and effectively, and operate the till when required
  • Ensure accurate data entry and regular updates within the organisation’s CRM system to maintain up-to-date contact records
  • Perform routine data cleansing of the CRM system, generate reports, extract data to support fundraising, marketing, and outreach activities, and ensure the integrity and consistency of CRM information
  • Sale of products and services available at Reception
  • Welcome and guide NHS AWP customers who arrive at Reception

Event and Facility Support: 

  • Assist in the preparation of our spaces for events:
  • Open and close The Ranch Adventure Playground and Youth Space on Sundays
  • Set up the Main Hall at Greenway Centre, plus meeting rooms with chairs, tables, refreshments, and close-down events to ensure smooth event operations

Booking System and Customer Support: 

  • Manage the venue booking systems for events, customer, staff, and visitor enquiries independently, ensuring all bookings are handled efficiently
  • Proactively propose solutions and system improvements for managing bookings and customer enquiries, based on insights gained through reception work
  • Support the Greenway Gym by assisting members with check-in, membership sign-up, providing information on membership options and classes, and handling urgent class announcements

Event Planning and Support: 

  • Collaborate with the Customer Experience Manager to expand the Trust’s event programme by helping to plan and organise events, maintaining guest lists, coordinating ticket sales, sourcing raffle prizes/donations, and promoting events on social media
  • Welcome guests to events and ensure a positive and engaging experience for all attendees

Facility Management, Health and Safety: 

  • Ensure the reception area, foyer, communal areas, and noticeboards are always maintained to a high standard, ensuring customer-facing information is up-to-date
  • Process payments through the cash register and handle end-of-shift cash reconciliation
  • Unlock and lock the building, ensuring security measures are followed as a key-holder
  • Act as a fire marshal, leading fire evacuations when necessary, and adhering to health and safety policies, legislation, and regulations 

General Responsibilities:

  • Follow all Southmead Development Trust policies and procedures
  • Actively demonstrate and promote our values: Positivity, Integrity, Excellence, Welcoming, and Entrepreneurial
  • Work independently and take initiative to solve problems
  • Engage in training, development, and team activities
  • Support a safe, inclusive, and respectful environment
  • Collaborate effectively across teams and with the community
  • Be flexible to work occasional evenings and weekends
  • Carry out other duties as required to support the Trust’s work

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Essential

  • Experience working in a sales and customer service role
  • Multi-tasking, for example, ensuring the phone is answered, responding to email enquiries, and attending to visitors
  • Good numeracy and literacy skills to carry out administration duties 
  • Certification and/or proficient use of the Microsoft Office package and use of CRMs, shift management, or booking systems in previous roles
  • Excellent team working with very strong communication skills 
  • Commitment to continual professional development 

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Desirable

Qualifications  

  • Customer service 
  • Business 
  • Administration qualification  
  • First Aid 

Experience 

  • Managing events  
  • Social media platforms 
  • Community development 

Other 

  • Knowledge of Southmead and the issues facing residents 

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