Special Education Specialist

Duration: Expected to be 03 months contract with possible extensions.

Location: Reston Virginia 20190 (REMOTE POSITIONS) farthest work location preferred is CST - seeking candidates that will flex between a normal, 8-hour shift across 7a-8p EST

Pay Range: $25/hr.-$31/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

·        Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA

·        401(k)

·        Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws

Technical Skills Must Have:

·        Accurate and efficient data entry

·        Accustomed to a fast-paced environment

·        Attention to Detail

·        Customer Service

·        MS office

·        salesforce

·        Smartsheets

·        Solid written communication skills

Profile:

·        The staff will handle the advanced cases (and other tasks associated with the new digital testing roll out), but they need 4 specialists that have solid customer service experience and stellar DATA ENTRY and WRITTEN communication skills.

·        This role may handle phones, but the gap is data entry and handling email correspondence. It is CRUCIAL the data being entered is accurate, so we will be looking for past performance/roles requiring this skill. The selected candidates will enter into databases, but one is salesforce so this and smartsheets experience needed.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

·        As the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) Customer Care Assistant Director, you will apply your superior case management skills and proactive outreach in support of a mission-critical operational

·        function. You will be responsible for managing escalated cases, email responses, and certain SSD specific procedures. You will ensure that these cases are resolved within the specified guidelines and

·        policies of the SSD Program. You understand the importance of asking probing questions to pinpoint a

·        customer's needs and for guiding customers to the policies and resources needed to resolve their

·        questions and challenges.

·        The SSD Customer Care team handles escalations for students with disabilities.

·        This group of students, parents, and educators comprise a group that presents sensitive, nuanced, and complex issues for resolution. This team will deliver high quality customer service across all programs. The SSD Customer Care Assistant Director temporarily reports to the Senior Director,

·        Operational Effectiveness but will ultimately report directly to the Director, SSD Customer Care.

In this role, you will:

Provide Customer Service (50%)

Become well-versed in SSD policy and processes that impact accommodated students, parents, and educators and the operational procedures necessary to resolve customer

escalations.

Establish a strong relationship with SSD Program and SSD Experience.

Communicate complex SSD Program policies effectively, via email response as well as in written case status format.

Work within aggressive timelines and with extremely sensitive conversations regarding accommodations for students with disabilities.

Apply strong decision-making skills on and strong judgment about how to address complex requests and to de-escalate difficult customer interactions.

Handle high volume caseloads while ensuring that cases are accurately researched and closed out within established timelines.

Learn multiple customer service and operational system applications required to manage escalated SSD customer service cases.

Take a hands-on approach to determine root cause analysis of escalations.

Provide support of other work across the organization as needed to support shared goals.

Execute SSD Operational Processes & Recommend Process Improvements (35%)

Manage cases and execute SSD pre-administration processes that meet service level agreements.

Provide status on customer inquiries and trends within escalation categories

Identify opportunities to improve customer relationships through optimized systems, training, and feedback mechanisms

Sustain continuous dialogue with colleagues in SSD Customer Care, SSD program and SSD product owner to identify issues and execute process improvements, quality checkpoints to

ensure the highest quality service in supporting these processes.

Provide input to the voice of the customer initiative helping to drive continuous improvement and improved customer experience.

Execute selected SSD post-administration processes.

Complete Special Projects (15%)

• Manage other self-assigned projects that arise through digital transformation and organizational method changes

Qualifications:

·        3-5 years’ experience leading and navigating complex customer issues and resolving those cases

·        3-5 years’ experience providing high quality support while managing assigned cases within

·        service level agreements

·        Strong organizational and prioritization skills and the proven ability to move forward within

·        multiple projects in concert, as a leader, independently, and as a member of the team

·        Familiarity with accommodations and/or disabilities a plus

·        Adept problem-solving skills, including using data to inform decisions and actions

·        A proven ability to not only build and manage customer relationships but also to build strong

·        relationships across internal teams that may have conflicting priorities

·        The ability to collaborate and provide guidance to teammates on complex cases

·        The ability to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape

·        Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint