Customer Care Professional

Description

Lighthouse Works drives real business for real customers and supports and grows Lighthouse Central Florida's rehabilitation training.

While some roles may require proximity to our Orlando office, roles based outside of our Orlando office can sit in any of the following states:  AL, FL, GA, IN, LA, NC, OH, SC, TX, VA, WV.

Our promise to you:

The Lighthouse Core Values are the very foundation on which we operate. These values are who we are and who we continually aspire to be:  Servant Leadership, Inclusion, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Excellence.

Location

• Remote, hybrid or onsite, depending on candidate's location. 

The Community You'll be Caring for: 

Lighthouse Works is a mission-driven, values-based organization providing creative, competitive, and integrated employment opportunities for blind and visually-impaired working-aged individuals. Our business lines deliver high-quality value to customers while at the same time creating exciting career opportunities for candidates who are visually impaired or blind. This position is an integral role on our Contact Center Services Team.

About You

The role you'll contribute

Our Customer Care Professionals are responsible for providing first-class customer service and completing all necessary data appropriately, accurately, and thoroughly.

The value you'll bring to the team

• Answers the telephone courteously and professionally, responding to calls, emails, etc., using customer-oriented etiquette
• Identifies customers' needs, clarifies information, researches every issue, and provides solutions.
• Handles and resolves customer questions and issues. Escalate to the next level if needed.
• Maintains and records proper and accurate documentation of all activities
• Maintains monthly performance expectations such as Average Calls Answered, Average Talk Time, Customer Satisfaction scores, and any other phone metric requirements
• Adheres to company and department policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Must pass Level II background check

Preferred Qualifications

• Some business classes, vocation/technical
• Previous experience working in a call center environment
• Bilingual (Spanish, Creole) communications skills helpful

The employment policy of Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works is to provide equal opportunity to all persons. Our company, therefore, has committed to equal employment opportunity through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works will recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified individuals in all job titles and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, and veteran status, or disability.

All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and primary duties have been included. Requirements, skills, and abilities have been determined to be the minimal standards required to perform the positions successfully. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and conditions may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

The Americans with Disabilities Act may modify requirements to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made that may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or impose undue hardships on the organization.

Qualifications

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent required. Some business classes, vocational/technical training preferred

Experience:

• Previous experience working in a call center environment preferred

Demonstrated Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to maintain an atmosphere conducive to customer-friendly relations by providing memorable, courteous, friendly, and prompt customer service
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) communications skills helpful
• Ability to show courtesy and respect to all customers
• Ability to be a team player
• Ability to complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to identify problem issues and determine the appropriate course of action/redirection within department guidelines required to resolve issues
• Ability to resolve issues of conflict tactfully and professionally and to effectively diffuse irate callers
• Ability to type 35 words per minute (WPM) and have some knowledge of Microsoft applications

Physical Demands:

• Lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling objects and materials up to 10 lbs.
• Extended periods of oral communication
• Hearing verbal conversations with people of various ages, educational levels, and cultural backgrounds in person/by telephone
• Speaking understandably to people of various ages, educational levels, and cultural backgrounds in person/by telephone
• Extended periods at a keyboard or workstation
• Frequent typing & operation of keyboard equipment (computer, calculator, etc.)
• Follow non-technical/technical directions
• Work under a tight deadline and have the ability to handle frequent changes in procedures
• Making decisions with varying amounts of guidance
• Frequent placing & turning motions, such as sorting, filing, and retrieving
• Infrequent twisting or bending at the waist or reaching overhead

Requirements:

• Must pass Level II background check
• Ability to work flexible hours as needed
• This position may require an employee to be legally blind to meet our State, Local, or Federal contractual obligations. The employee must provide documentation from a physician of legal blindness. Legal blindness is defined as: "Central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses OR whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees." These conditions are based on the federal Javits-Wagner-O'Day work program for legally blind individuals.

For employees living with visual impairments, you must provide documentation from a physician of legal blindness. Legal blindness is defined as: "Central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses OR whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees." These conditions are based on the federal Javits-Wagner-O'Day work program for legally blind individuals.

The employment policy of Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works is to provide equal opportunity to all persons. Our company, therefore, has committed to equal employment opportunity through a positive and continuing affirmative action program. Lighthouse Central Florida and Lighthouse Works will recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified individuals in all job titles and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, and veteran status, or disability.

All descriptions have been reviewed to ensure that only essential functions and primary duties have been included. Requirements, skills, and abilities have been determined to be the minimal standards required to perform the positions successfully. In no instance, however, should the duties, responsibilities, and requirements delineated be interpreted as all-inclusive. Additional functions and conditions may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

The Americans with Disabilities Act may modify requirements to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made that may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or impose undue hardships on the organization.