Call Center Assistant

Department Summary

At UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services (H&HS), you become part of UCLA's tradition of excellence by providing quality housing, dining, and hospitality services to student-residents, faculty, staff, and campus visitors. We believe there's more to a job than simply being employed. In addition to competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits and retirement plans, H&HS team members enjoy significant opportunities for professional and personal growth in a supportive work environment.

No matter what your role, you will join more than 2,600+ H&HS team members who understand that our motto Hospitality First! means that a warm, gracious attitude makes a difference in the lives of the people we serve.

Under the general supervision of the Department Manager and the Supervisor provide primary support for properties managed by UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services. Provide a full range of administrative support for the maintenance program. Assist the public and visitors in a professional and courteous manner with information or referring them to the appropriate person. Receive, screen, and route telephone calls. Generate work orders using a database program and maintain database.

Issue work orders and/or keys. Initiate and complete forms necessary to facilitate pre- and final inspection of vacant apartments. Schedule vendors and/or contractors to assist in the renovation of vacant apartments. Screen incoming calls for management staff. Open, sort, and distribute all incoming mail. Prepare routine correspondence to residents, vendors, rental staff, and other customers as directed. Schedule appointments for management staff to meet with residents who have maintenance related concerns.

Complete other duties as assigned. Finally, the position requires flexibility in traveling to and from the various complexes, to and from the various properties managed by UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services.

• * UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.

• 2+ years demonstrated administrative office experience (Required)
• Working knowledge of Landlord-Tenant Law and an understanding of eviction procedures as they relate to campus policies and procedures. (Preferred)
• Typing skill to prepare business correspondence, forms and reports with speed and accuracy. Skill in establishing alpha/numerical files. (Required)
• Skill in operating Network based PC including working knowledge of the programs Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook. Competency in Database functionality. Ability to follow written and oral instructions and/or directions. (Required)
• Skill in reading documents written in standard English text (e.g., administrative policy manuals and rental agreements). Skill in writing grammatically correct routine business correspondence. (Required)
• Ability to make oral presentations for the purpose of providing information, explaining policies and procedures, and answering questions. (Required)
• Ability to perform with frequent interruptions and/or distractions and manage a heavy workload within established time frames. (Required)
• Skills in interacting with persons of various social, economic and educational backgrounds. (Required)
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with persons of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds. Skill in…