Deadline Date: Wednesday 17 August 2022
Requirement: Customer Success Specialist
Location: The Hague, NL
Full time on-site: Yes
NATO Grade: A/48
Total Scope of the request (hours): 550
Required Start Date: 19 September 2022
End Contract Date: 31 December 2022
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
- Focus on the customer, delivering a positive employee experience; provides assistance and support to various internal and external customers, maximizing the positive experience and customer satisfaction;
- Take responsibility for measuring consistent service delivery against individual key performance indicators (KPIs) and implementing preventative action;
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the Technical Leads, Work Package Leads, and external stakeholders;
- Provide support to the PMs and WPL in organizing meetings, events, workshops and conferences in accordance with Agency procedures; responsible for the administrative aspects including requesting conference facilities, accommodation, catering, etc;
- Prepare reports and documents in accordance with the Agency's official document formatting guidelines. Participate in meetings, workshops, teleconferences and capture and prepare meeting minutes to be shared with the participants;
- Provide secretariat and administrative support such as drafting agendas, calling notice and collation of briefing packs;
- Support project teams in producing briefings, presentations, promotional materials;
- Provide financial assistance such as the handling of purchase requests and purchase orders in an ERP system based on Oracle/PeopleSoft;
- Take ownership for and work independently in designated work area.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge amp; Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance.
- University degree in a business-relevant discipline;
- Sound knowledge and experience in the use of Microsoft office automation packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, Visio);
- Advanced knowledge of Information Knowledge Management, with focus on metadata application;
- At least 3 years of recent experience with NATO Document Management and Archive systems;
- Sound knowledge and experience in the administration and maintenance of SharePoint portals, with at least 3 years of proven experience;
- At least 3 years of extensive experience creating, establishing, planning, and managing medium scale events
- Ability to create innovation platforms including creating visuals, writing blog posts amp; status updates
- Proven ability to work autonomously, pushing for creative and out of the box thinking initiatives, in line with the organizational directives
- Ability to operate in a multinational, culturally diverse, political environment and demonstrate the capability to work effectively within it;
- Excellent command of spoken and written English, with a proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing;
- Inter-personal skills and the ability to be responsive to both external and internal customers and staff;
- The consultant shall be prepared to travel on short notice to deployed locations within NATO boundaries;
- The consultant shall have the ability and self-motivation to work individually but must also work well within a team.
In addition to the above, it would be considered highly desirable:
- Prior experience of working in large projects, with multiple stakeholders from various nations/organizations;
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian element;
- Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including ACO and ACT