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Service Desk Lead

Temporary

Theomnihire

Experience:  8–10 Years

Reports To:   Service Delivery Manager

Languages:   English essential; Arabic strongly advantageous

Location:   UAE

Role Purpose:

Own the performance, quality and operating model of the service desk supporting users across 573 locations, and line-manage the 20-person desk organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own service desk SLA and KPI performance - answer rate, abandonment rate, first contact resolution, average handling time and CSAT.
  • Design and maintain the operating model, shift patterns and forecast-based staffing across term time, holidays and examination peaks.
  • Line-manage Supervisors, Senior Agents, Tier 1 Analysts and Tier 1.5 Remote Resolution Analysts.
  • Own the knowledge management lifecycle and drive the shift-left agenda to reduce field dispatch.
  • Own the call quality assurance and coaching framework.
  • Manage telephony, ACD and ITSM platform configuration for the desk.
  • Own recruitment, induction and training pathways for the desk.
  • Report service desk performance into the monthly governance cycle and lead improvement actions.
  • Act as escalation point for complex or sensitive user issues routed to the desk.

Requirements

Required Technical Skills:

  • Proven service desk leadership at scale - 20+ agents in a high-volume environment.
  • Workforce management, forecasting and scheduling.
  • ITSM and telephony/ACD platform administration.
  • Knowledge management and shift-left methodology
  • Quality assurance frameworks and coaching.
  • Strong analytics and performance reporting

Qualifications & Certifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or a related discipline.
  • ITIL Intermediate minimum.
  • HDI or COPC certification advantageous

Education Sector Experience

  • Prior experience supporting   schools, universities, colleges, or other education-sector IT environments   is a strong advantage.
  • Familiarity with academic-calendar-driven service demand, examination periods, classroom technology, computer labs, and safeguarding requirements will be considered favorably.

Other Requirements

  • Arabic language capability is a significant advantage given the bilingual user base.
  • Availability for escalation outside core hours
  • Clean police clearance and security vetting. Service Desk Lead   
Vacancy posted a month ago
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