Role & responsibilities :
Delivery of Support Services-
- Successfully trains and leads a team of Service Desk Associates with a variety of skillsets.
- Leads the Service Desk team ensuring effective use of resources and proactively monitors performance and addresses any concerns with the team members.
- Promote IT good practice throughout the business.
- Ensure timely and effective delivery of contracted client obligations for remote services both permanent, scheduled and ad-hoc.
- Help identify and priorities the development areas.
- Previous IT Business experience in a similar function.
- To help build efficient and effective relationships between the Service Desk, entity clients, regional helpdesks and support teams.
- Experience in helpdesk / Service Desk environment.
- Escalate high priority incidents to both internal and external teams, as appropriate and professionally resolve complaints.
- Ensures the service desk remains efficient, cost effective and customer focused.
Preferred candidate profile :
Qualifications -
Bachelor's degree in science or computersFoundation Certificate in ITIL (Preferred)Skills & Experience -
2 to 3 year's experience within an IT support environmentEssential
The ideal candidate should possess the working knowledge and hands-on experience on the following technical areas :Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016Microsoft Office, Active directoryMicrosoft Office 365 Admin experienceWindows Desktop 7 / 10Microsoft ExchangeBasic Networking protocols TCP / IPBasic understanding of Citrix and remote workspace solutionsAntivirus technologiesInternet technologies (WWW FTP EMAIL TCPIP VPNExpertise across multiple ITSM toolsetsManaging the E2E Incident Lifecycle, including successful delivery against core KPIsMonitoring and managing team workloads, schedules and shift rotationPlanning and organizing shift rotationGood verbal and written communication skills (English)Ensuring performance levels are maintained against the targets set by the SDMReporting service performance against targetIdentifying ways to deliver improved service performance to customersDesirable
Logical and methodical approach to working.Knowledge of ITILKnowledge of scripting in PowerShell, batch files or VBScripts, Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware)Personal Aspects-
Customer-focused approach to dealing with service and incident requests.Acting as primary point of contact for colleagues.Ability to work under pressure efficiently.Ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage workload.Leading a team to consistently deliver against a core set of KPIs.Excellent attention to detail and be pro-active, hardworking, and patient.Ability to excel both independently as well as part of a team.Professional punctual, reliable, trustworthy, inspires confidence.Applicants should have willingness toward self-improvement and continuous learning.Skills Required
Microsoft Office Applications, Desktop Troubleshooting, Outlook Configuration, Windows Troubleshooting