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Entry Clearance Assistant x10 (03/22 PTA) at Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Main Purpose of Job:
UK Visas and Immigration is responsible for making millions of decisions every year about who has the right to visit or stay in the United Kingdom, with a firm emphasis on national security and a culture of customer satisfaction for people who want to visit legally.UK Visas and Immigration in South Africa is a decision-making hub for UK visa customers in 27 Sub-Saharan Africa countries. Every year, more than 160,000 people from across Africa visit the UK for leisure, family, business and education. The Entry Clearance Assistant role is critical to ensuring that UKVI Africa delivers against our global customer service commitments to process visa applications within agreed timelines.
The job holder will perform general office administrative duties and assist with the efficient running of the visa operation centre. The successful candidate must be able to perform administrative duties from various digital platforms and be flexible to move between departments as and when needed.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Data Checking
To data check visa application information electronically by linking and uploading applications, conducting mandatory checks, entering required information and reporting on Service Level Agreement failures including data errors. Successful candidates will be required to meet a daily benchmark at a high level of accuracy.
Dispatch
To ensure that physical applications and notices and their digital complement are dispatched in accordance with the standard operating processes and within the required timeline. To maintain accurate records of all applications dispatched by UKVI and received by the commercial partner.
Special Handling Unit
To carry out administrative duties within the Special Handling Unit including the facilitation of special applications and addressing queries and complaints, whilst keeping accurate records of all pending applications handled within the team.
Enrichment and Verification
To verify documents and/or circumstances as requested by decision making teams within the operation
Visa Writers
To issue, and despatch visa decisions as required, ensuring that they are accurately completed and issued in line with correct guidance and best practice. Maintaining accurate records as necessary and regularly interact with the commercial partner for reconciliation of inventory against such records.
Other
To perform other ad-hoc duties connected with the UKVI’s requirements including new and developing operating procedures
- Basic IT skills and proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Display strong organizational, analytical and time management skills
- Numeracy
- Educated to Matric level or equivalent
- Will take responsibility for the quality of their own work and work well in a team
- Strong customer focus with good attention to detail
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- Data Capture experience
- Office administration duties
Learning and development opportunities:
- In house training and mentoring will be provided
- Use of Visa Management databases and tools
- Training in information protection, all aspects of Entry Clearance assistance, diversity and inclusion
The British High Commission pays in full for the Key Care Plus option on Discovery Health for staff including spouses/partners and dependants.
- Once you have successfully completed your probation the British High Commission will contribute 9% of your monthly salary to a Provident Fund.
- Annual leave entitlement of 25 days
- Working hours per week of 36.5
Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
- Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
- The British High Commission will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
- Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Pretoria are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in South Africa.
- All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.
- The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;
- Obtain the relevant permit
- Pay fees for the permit
- Make arrangements to relocate
- Meet the costs to relocation
- The British High Commission do not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so.
- Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.
- Information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Competency Framework can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-competency-framework Please note: AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
- Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
- Please log into your profile on the application system on a regular basis to review the status of your application.
HOW TO APPLY
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Job Description
We are a HR Consultancy firm that is very passionate about people and their contribution towards the growth and success of any organization. We create systems that are streamlined towards the attainment of the organizations goals and build the capacity of the organizations employees to deliver results.
Corporate Training Telemarketer
Are you a dynamic, creative, and innovative telemarketer with a passion for sales and marketing? We are looking for a Corporate Training Telemarketer to join our client and help develop and grow their training business in the region. If you have a successful track record in marketing corporate training courses, corporate events, or corporate real estate services, we want to hear from you! This position based in Nairobi is to market the in-person training courses in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia & Malawi.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive sales by identifying and engaging potential clients.
- Understand client training needs and offer tailored solutions.
- Promote our unique training programs and demonstrate their value to corporate clients.
- Meet and exceed sales targets, contributing to business growth.
- Maintain organized, accurate records and manage your sales pipeline effectively.
Qualifications and Experience:
- A dynamic, creative, and innovative marketing and sales professional with 2-3 years work experience and proven track record in B to B corporate training marketing and sales or marketing corporate events or Real Estate sales experience (a must requirement).
- Proven top performer with exceptional communication and persuasion skills.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and goal-driven.
- Critical thinker who thrives in a fast-paced environment and consistently exceeds targets
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to:
vacancies@peoplefoco.co.ke
using the position as subject of email
Closing Date : 21 November. 2024
Job Description
Cigna is a global health service company, dedicated to helping the people we serve improve their health, well-being and sense of security. Cigna has almost 40,000 employees who service over 80 million customer relationships around the world. Within its international division, a dedicated unit – headquartered in Belgium – focuses on the needs of International.
Care Team Senior Supervisor
Your job
As a Care Team Senior Supervisor, you will be managing a team based in KL, Nairobi and Madrid. You will be responsible to motivate your own teams to ensure production levels and targets are achieved, to ensure effective processing controls are in place across locations, as well as championing efforts that achieve the highest possible levels of provider experience and satisfaction that enable the company to meet its growth and profit objectives.
Your role will be broader than the day-to-day management of the team – your agile, provider centric mindset will ensure that you contribute to our overall provider operations strategy, identifying opportunities to enhance the service proposition and to improve the efficiencies and productivity of your teams. Your role will report into the Care Senior Manager based in Madrid.
Your role will be to:
- Responsible to lead dedicated care teams across the globe in and efficient and effective way.
- Build and bring alive a true culture of provider centricity.
- Responsible to meet operational KPI’s within the team in terms of production, quality, TAT, amongst others, and bring those alive across the team to deliver on those.
- Analysing support workflows and making suggestions to improve efficiency and effectiveness and be active in seeking and sharing ideas for innovation in business processes.
- Managing schedules of team members according to customer/provider demand and any service levels agreements.
- Assess the capacity planning for your segments as well as following up on absences and coverage strategies to secure business continuity.
- Taking part in forecasting and budgeting for customer service and tracking the actual performance against plan.
- Produce meaningful, accurate management reports and statistical information in line with formats and timescales agreed with management, including trending and enhancement activities to quantify operational impacts.
- Regular contact with Client Management, Service Ops, Clinical and other Cigna internal stakeholders within your remit.
- Identifying and acting to remove obstacles to delivering consistently high levels of services.
- Assisting and contributing with the design and rollout of new operational excellence projects.
- Ensure strong employee engagement within the team, including day to day oversight, motivation, conflict management, training, wellbeing, and performance by providing coaching and skill development in collaboration with the other Care Team management and PSO Management Team
- Working closely with senior management to help customer/ provider service deliver on their components of overall company goals and objectives.
- Be a focal point for the PSO leads as well as other internal stakeholders.
- Leading and supporting your teams through required changes.
- International travel on quarterly basis might be required.
Your profile
- Minimum 2 years’ experience leading operational teams within the company or outside.
- International mind-set, with holistic and able to work remotely with colleagues and direct reports across locations.
- Striving for excellent service to our members, clients, and providers.
- Experience in and passion for coaching, managing, developing, and motivating individuals and the team.
- Experience in change and process improvement management – with a proven track record in improving customer service standards.
- Experience managing offshore teams.
- Strong presentation skills, and knowledge of Window Office tools like Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint.
- A growth mindset with a positive attitude towards change and the ability to play an active role in implementing change initiatives.
- Competency to build a team and create an atmosphere of positive collaboration, innovation and creative solutioning among the team members.
- Proven data analytics skills (advanced Excel, Qlikview, Tableau …).
- Results orientated – ability to cascade and explain goals, establish plans and manage work to achieve desired outcomes.
- Accountability – assumes ownership for achieving personal results and collective goals.
- Strong communication skills: demonstrating drive and enthusiasm. High level of English is a requirement.
Key Competenties
- Manage ambiguity
- Balances stakeholders
- Organizational Savy
- Drives Engagement
- Build effective teams
- Tech savvy
- Global perspective
- Data driven
What we offer?
- Type of Contract: Permanent.
- Multicultural working environment: A diverse job in an international context with impressive clients.
- Hybrid working: Enjoy working from the comfort of your home 3 days per week and 2 days from our Madrid office. Cigna’s “Happy You”: health and wellbeing initiatives, flexible work hours, home working opportunities.
- Flexible starting hour: Official Schedule Monday to Friday 9.00 to 17.00 but with flexibility. Our shifts are from 7:00 to 9:30, with the possibility to choose the time that suits you best.
- A wide range of social benefits (such as: healthcare insurance, pharmacy insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, shuttle bus and so on) and attractive salary packages.
HOW TO APPLY
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Closing Date : 21 November. 2024
Corporate Training Telemarketer at People FOCO
Care Team Senior Supervisor at Cigna
