Customer Services Officer

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Customer Services Officer
Cambridge (with flexible home working)
£30,517 per annum
Full time - 37 hours per week 

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone with customer services experience to take on a wide and varied role delivering high quality and consistent services to our customers and stakeholders. You’ll be part of our Customer Services team, and the role will involve supporting our housing and property teams in delivering effective services around income collection, arrears management, empty homes management and allocations.
?This is an exciting time to become part of the Hundred Houses Society team and contribute to our future improvement plans. 
Our mission is to provide good quality homes and services in Greater Cambridge that our customers value and we constantly strive to deliver better customer service. As well as focusing on delivering more new build homes, we are continually investing and modernising our customer’s homes.
We’d welcome applications from candidates who have experience of working within or supporting property maintenance teams to deliver reliable repair services. 
The successful candidate will have a vocational qualification at level 3 in Customer Service, Housing or Business Administration, or knowledge and experience at an equivalent level in Customer Services in any industry, or experience of working within housing organisations.
We’d like to see experience of working to deadlines and planning and organising work effectively, including creating and maintaining accurate records, proactively managing feedback, identifying gaps in service delivery and providing administrative support. 
 
Excellent communication and proactive listening skills are essential, along with the ability to work effectively with others, demonstrating a ‘can do’ attitude.
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process. 

Other benefits:
  • A defined contributions pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme 
  • Private medical insurance
  • Employee Benefits Scheme 
  • 28 days annual leave each year, with an option to increase this?in certain circumstances.
  • A focus on learning and wellbeing

If this sounds like you and you would like to join a supportive team in a unique and interesting role, we’d love to hear from you. 
 
We encourage you to apply early as we may close the vacancy if we receive sufficient applicants that meet the essential skills and experience. 
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