Service Coordinator

General Summary: The Service Desk Dispatcher is responsible for attaining maximum utilization of internal and field technical resources through daily dispatch of service requests.

Perform service request intake from clients; assign, schedule, and dispatch service engineers for remote or onsite service according to urgency, and contractual service level agreement (SLA). Strong client relations are a must.

Position Responsibilities: 

• Act as the single point of contact to the client for all types of service requests
• Coordination of all IT support groups to ensure maximum utilization of billable resources
• Pre-process service requests as they arrive through email, manual entry, or direct client input
• Schedule internal and field technical resources on the ConnectWise dispatch portal
• Monitor resource schedules to ensure prompt time entry on service requests
• Communication with clients as required: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Improve client service, perception, and satisfaction
• Fast turnaround of client requests
• Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively
• Improve usage and increase productivity of IT support resources
• Escalate service requests that cannot be scheduled within agreed service levels
• Report the utilization of IT Support resources and successful completion of service requests to the Service Manager
• Understand processes in ConnectWise by completing assigned training materials and blueprints on the ConnectWise University
• Enter all work as service tickets into ConnectWise

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

• Basic computer and operating system knowledge
• Interpersonal skills: such as telephony skills, communication skills, active listening and client-care
• Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes quickly
• Technical awareness: ability to match resources to technical issues appropriately
• Service awareness of all organizations key IT services for which support is being provided
• Understanding of support tools, techniques, and how technology is used to provide IT services
• Typing skills to ensure quick and accurate entry of service request details
• Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast-moving environment

Credentials and Experience: 

Previous Client Service or phone related skills; familiarity with computer system support terminology concepts.