Barclays Bank Customer Care Vacancies – Quality Assurance Specialist

Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty
Station:
  Kampala,
Uganda
Reports
to:
Manager Customer
Governance, In country Governance & Controls
About
Barclays Africa: 
Barclays Africa encompasses
Barclays Global Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, and Barclaycard operations
in 10 countries organised in four geographic areas: North Africa (Egypt), East
and West Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya),  Southern Africa
(Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe), and Indian Ocean (Mauritius and Seychelles).
Barclays Africa serves its
2.8m customers through a network of 573 branches and service centres providing
a variety of traditional financial products including retail mortgages, current
and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending, credit cards,
treasury and investments.
Job
Summary:
  The Customer Care: Quality Assurance Assessor
will review the complaints handling quality of calls, Case records &
related MI within Group team and develop, recommend and implement coaching
actions to support the improvement of the overall quality and training. Provide
input to the formal performance review process of individual consultants.
Provide inputs into the Group quality assurance process for all dispute
resolution areas. Oversee all Complaint Management Centres Quality Assurance
processes and to ensure alignment across. Perform QA audits on all dispute
resolution area’s and to ensure that all audit findings are tracked, monitored
and closed within agreed timelines.
Key
Duties & Responsibilities:
1. Quality Assurance:
  • Carry
    out random call & complaint case assessments and rate the complaints
    handling agents against a predefined standards checklist.
  • Review
    emails and responses by agents against agreed standards.
  • Compile
    quality assurance reports for each agent.  Complete a trend analysis
    and highlight concerns around declining performance trends.
  • Conduct
    formal coaching sessions with agents where issues have been identified in
    terms of their call standards.
  • Deliver
    regular communication and presentations to all business units with regards
    to quality assurance.
  • Conduct
    training on soft skills for new and current staff.
  • Conduct
    benchmarking sessions with other Contact & Complaint Management
    centres, arranging knowledge sharing meetings, participating in the
    meetings and documenting the lessons learnt. Develop process improvements
    for the consultants based on those interactions.
  • Participate
    in formal review of the Service recovery business plan and formulate
    recommendations on how to enhance service delivery.
  • Conduct
    random quality assessments on the Complaint Data mart & related
    reports prior to publication (Include all FPOC cases logged and closed
    outside of Contact Centre environment)
  • Participate
    in the implementation team for projects specific to dispute resolution by
    providing subject matter expertise on Service Recovery matters.
  • Ensure
    the integrity of reports and other management information produced to
    support timely and informed business decisions by management within the
    business area.
  • Report
    incomplete, invalid, duplicate, inconsistent, redundant, outdated and, or
    inaccurate data to individual line managers indicated as users and, or
    producers or who have contributed to the definition process and reach
    agreement on how to correct the issues.
  • Compile
    quality assurance reports for all Management Centres and provide
    recommendations on areas of improvement.
  • Ensure
    quality assurance records are kept in line with Barclays Africa record
    management policy.
2. Administration:
  • Prepare
    summary performance reports for each employee as input for their
    Performance Development plan based on Quality Assurance Data prepared
    during the six months leading up to the PD discussion.
  • Identify
    the need for formal training for employees.  Document recommendations
    and present to the team managers.
  • If
    required, contribute to the development of individual Performance
    Improvement Plans.
  • Research
    the potential alternatives or changes to the current processes and
    recommend the preferred alternatives
  • Ensure
    that the Recording server is always up and running – Viewing Customer Care
    owner Voice recording service real time. Monitor system on Desktop.
3. Building &
Maintaining Relationships:
  • Develop
    and maintain effective relationships with key internal business partners
    involved in dispute resolution.
  • Build
    positive relationship with key stakeholders in the Quality assurance
    environment. .
  • Build
    relationships with key stakeholders and enablers in support of effective
    dispute resolution quality assurance.
Qualifications,
Skills & Experience:
  • The
    applicant should possess five or more years’ experience in
    Banking/Financial & Services industry with an emphasis on dispute
    resolution  
  • Good
    Negotiation skills   
  • Excellent
    Time Management skills
  • Good
    Stress Management Ability
  • Excellent
    Communication Skills (Both Verbal & Written)
  • Knowledge
    of the Relevant Banking Act   
  • Good
    Persuasion Skills   
  • Excellent
    Analytical Skills
  • Good
    at Deciding and initiating action
  • Learning
    and researching abilities
  • Entrepreneurial
    and commercial thinking skills
  • Good
    relationship building and networking skills
  • Adapting
    and responding to change
  • Excellent
    persuasion and influencing skills
  • Be
    highly creative and innovative
How
to Apply:
If you feel challenged by
any of the above positions, and believe you can deliver on key deliverables as
outlined above, upload your application letter, current curriculum vitae and
photocopies of academic certificate to our recruitment website detail below:
Barclays is an equal
opportunity employer that recruits, develops and promotes people on merit, and
rewards outstanding performance, regardless of background and gender.
For queries contact us on
0417122453 or email: barclays.uganda@barclays.com
Deadline:  15th
January, 2014

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