Description & Requirements
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise the correspondence staff members to ensure adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures, correcting errors or problems as needed.
- Perform tasks to assure correspondence and program service level requirements and goals are met.
- Assume leadership responsibility for correspondence tasks and contact center processing activities as required.
- Participate in meetings and recommend changes to policies and procedures.
- Support and enforce contact center expectations.
- Assist with escalated correspondence issues or cases as needed.
- Evaluate employee key performance indicators and identify training needs and development opportunities.
- Develop work schedules and assign duties to direct report personnel to ensure efficiency.
- Discuss job performance concerns with employees to identify outliers and work closely with the Human Resources team in resolving problems.
- Make recommendations to the higher-level manager for hiring, firing and disciplinary decisions.
- Participate in the work of subordinates to facilitate productivity or to overcome difficult aspects of work.
- Support audits by ensuring requested information are provided within the time limits requested and that the documentation and responses are accurate.
- Provides immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees, assigning tasks, checking work at frequent intervals, and maintaining schedules
- Follows established practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained
- Ensure compliance with company Wage & Hour policy, including ensuring non-exempt employees get the rest & meal breaks
- Comply with all company required policies, procedures and processes including but not limited to required training.
- Be able to successfully pass certification of departmental trainings.
- A portion of time is normally spent performing individual tasks related to the unit or sub-unit
- Monitors daily operations of a unit or sub-unit. Requires full knowledge of own area of functional responsibility.
- Frequently interacts with subordinate employees and functional peer groups
- Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, conducting presentations concerning specific projects or schedules
- Receives predetermined work assignments that are subject to a moderate level of control and review
- Directs subordinates to complete assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies
- Generally, supervises semi-skilled employees or a few individual professional contributors
- Bachelor's degree in related field.
- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.
Additional Requirements as per contract/client:
- Must reside in the U.S.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be able to pass a Federal Background Check
- Must not be delinquent or in default on any Federal Student Loans
*Employment and continued employment are contingent upon obtaining and maintaining a favorable clearance. Final suitability determination is the sole discretion of the Department of Education.
Home Office Requirements:
- Private and Secure workspace from home. At times, you may be required to facilitate and/or speak during meetings.
- Access to Wi-Fi, LAN (wired connection/ethernet) or both at home
- Internet provider that offers enough speed for multiple users without latency or lag. (i.e. housemate also WFH, kids playing video games or streaming shows, etc.)
- Internet download speed of 25mbps single/50mbps shared and 5mbps (10 preferred) upload or higher required (you can test this by going to www.speedtest.net)
- Bachelor's degree in related field.
- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience considered in lieu of degree.
