Customer Service Specialist - ASU Services

100538BR

Campus: Tempe

Customer Svc Spec

Job Description

The Enterprise Technology (ET) Experience Center is seeking a Customer Service Specialist - ASU Services. The primary duty of this position is to provide endpoint support to faculty, staff, and students by utilizing hardware and software.
As with everyone in the ET, culture and communications are core responsibilities in this role. With an increased focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, this position strives to embody and advance our ET Positive Core .

What’s in it for you:

Arizona State University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes valuable employee benefits to enhance the total compensation of its staff. This package includes: (Click here to explore options .)

• Opportunity to obtain Certifications in Business Analytics, Cybersecurity, Google IT, and Data Analytics, and/or NASFAA courses to obtain Certified Financial Aid Administrator credentials. 
• ASU Tuition Reduction Program for staff members, their spouses, and dependents, available on day one.
• Low-cost health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits available on day one.
• Retirement program designed to promote long-term savings and provide income upon retirement.
• Paid time for volunteer and professional development.
• Wellness program for preventative health education and screenings. 
• Disability and leave program for income protection. 
• Employee assistance for free and confidential behavioral health services.

Flexible work options may be available after successfully completing the initial 60- day training period.

• Alternative work schedules can include four, 10-hour workdays in a workweek; a nine-day, 80-hour schedule over two workweeks for exempt employees only; and staggered start and stop times.
• Hybrid work is an arrangement where employees spend a minimum of 60% of their regular workweek at their primary ASU work location. Dean or vice president-level approval is required.

Days and Schedules:
We are currently hiring for the following shifts:

• Monday, Thursday-Saturday 7:00 am - 6:00 pm
• Tuesday-Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Shift schedule will be determined at the time of hire and will be based on availability.

Job Family

Clerical & Admin Support

Department Name

EC Specialists

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-Time

VP Code

ASU Enterprise Technology

Grant Funded Position

This is not a grant funded position and is not contingent on future grant funding.

Salary Range

$20.00 per hour

Essential Duties

• Proficiently receives, monitors, and responds to inquiries via phone, email, and chat while addressing customer needs with empathy and efficiency.
• Utilizes ticketing systems and other designated technologies to accurately document and track support service activities in alignment with established organizational protocols.
• Demonstrate the ability to escalate complex or unresolved issues to Tier 2 support or other specialized teams, ensuring thorough documentation and context.
• Exhibits a comprehensive understanding of user requests and responds appropriately, fostering trust through consistent follow-through and ownership of issues.
• Applies critical thinking skills while utilizing support documentation, such as knowledge bases, to efficiently resolve client issues.
• Develop and collaborate in the creation of technical documentation for internal use.
• Recognizes trends and promptly notifies leadership and relevant departments.
• Actively engages in both scheduled and ad-hoc training sessions, contributing valuable insights and knowledge.
• Adheres to established methods and guidelines, proficiently obtaining, clarifying, and sharing information within defined parameters.
• Champions responsibility for nurturing our culture, promoting our values, and advocating for engagement in various capacities. This includes collaborating across teams and actively participating in ET/ASU events and programs.
• Demonstrates commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment.
  

Minimum Qualifications

One-two years’ experience in a customer service environment and experience in a frontline customer service environment OR any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Desired Qualifications

• Capable of effectively implementing self-service strategies to enhance customer understanding and satisfaction regarding inquiries, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrate knowledge of higher education policies and procedures. 
• Proficient with various web browsers and troubleshooting techniques.
• Familiarity with customer relationship management (CRM), such as Salesforce or ServiceNOW
• Experience in high-volume customer service contact center. 
• Experience in leading by example in communicating, participating and encouraging support of the institution’s sustainability programs.
• Ability to model empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence.
  

Working Environment

Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, standing and walking; frequent physical demands may include stooping, bending and reaching.

Department Statement

Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University. We are a values-driven organization. Our commitments are reflected in all of the work we do in pursuit of operational excellence, the experience and delight of our community, and our strategic and innovation initiatives. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.

Join the team that sparks human-centered innovation.

ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers, and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces diverse voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration.

Why join us?

Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU’s charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

Flexibility. Our hybrid work environment prioritizes personal autonomy and trust around how work gets done. 

Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered. The ET fabric weaves together diversity, equity and inclusion applied in our daily work and interactions.  

Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 180k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.

World-class, low cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU’s top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.

Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.

ASU is a diverse enterprise with a wide variety of work and learning modes, locations and a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and employee work-life balance. We are determined to maintain our position as an employer of choice in a competitive labor market. 

Flexible work options may be available after successfully completing the initial 60-day training period. 

• Alternative work schedules can include four, 10-hour workdays in a workweek; a nine-day, 80-hour schedule over two workweeks for exempt employees only; and staggered start and stop times.
• Hybrid work is an arrangement where employees spend a minimum of 60% of their regular workweek at their primary ASU work location. Dean or vice president-level approval is required.

ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

ASU is a tobacco-free university. For details visit https://wellness.asu.edu/explore-wellness/body/alcohol-and-drugs/tobacco

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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Employment Verification Statement

ASU conducts pre-employment screening which may include verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications.

Background Check Statement

ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background check.

Fingerprint Check Statement

This position is considered safety/security sensitive and will include a fingerprint check. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the fingerprint check.

Instructions to Apply

Application deadline is 3:00PM Arizona time on the date indicated.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position.

Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position.

ASU does not pay for travel expenses associated with interviews, unless otherwise indicated.

Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.