Service delivery & Quality Assurance Officer

Service delivery & Quality Assurance Officer

Date: 3 Sep 2024

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Company: Plan International

THE ORGANISATION
Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence, and injustice. 
We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 85 years and are now active in over 80 countries. 

SHARED SERVICES CENTRE 
The Shared Services Centre is a Centre of Excellence based in the MEESA region established to serve clients to enhance their operation effectiveness i.e. COs, RH and GH. The centre is committed to a reliable, efficient and effective service to clients at a competitive price. Its ultimate goal is to be trusted, predictable, and dependable to our clients at all times and to ensure commitment to quality and excellent turnaround times in all our service delivery. 

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Services Delivery Quality Assurance Officer is responsible for designing and implementing quality procedures and standards, assessing team and client requirements, and ensuring these are met. This role will support the SSC management in building and implementing decisions relating to quality objectives by creating and maintaining quality reports and dashboards and in creating, monitoring, and reviewing of KPIs and SLAs among others. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES 

1. Services Quality Assurance 
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to support SSC team particularly in areas of root cause analysis, internal control principles, and risk. 
• Provide support through data analysis, sample calculation, and testing as needed, in the review of the office systems, procedures and processes for compliance with organizational rules and regulations. 
• Support the SSC in enforcing and strengthening internal controls to ensure that systems are in place to prevent, detect and report non-compliance. 
• Summarize key issues and prepare reports that addresses stakeholder needs. 
• Leads the discussions with streams on key issues identified and escalate to head of shared services for engagement and negotiation with key stakeholders for issue resolution. 
• Maintain and update services streams risk register. 
• Ensures and monitors that all SLAs agreed are met and efficiently, with issues properly documented, reported and escalated as needed. 
• Defines, develops and implements Services quality assurance practices and procedures as well as documents, and assesses the practices and procedures in place for the work streams 
• Works with the SSC Management Team to identify issues, risks, inefficiencies and improvement areas and defines how to address them 
• Identifies and drives process improvement initiatives that can be managed to maximize effectiveness and efficiency 
• Builds Key Performance Indicators (KPI), drafts Service Level Agreements (SLA) fit for the unit and designs the implementation and governance of these KPIs and SLAs 
• Ensures that work delivery consistently follows established standards and that the teams’ function on high levels of quality by promoting process standardization and optimization 
• Contributes to the establishment of Service delivery and quality assurance best practices consistent with industry and quality standards 
• Provides technical guidance and support to the SSC team on quality Assurance concepts, techniques, and tools 
• Acts as the point of contact for escalations and develops, recommends, and monitors corrective and preventive actions 
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders, understanding their needs and expectations. 
• Coordinate clients’ team cross functional and management meetings to provide updates on SSC KPIs performance and gather clients’ feedback 

2. Change and Continuous Improvement 
• Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the SSC 
• Initiate and lead projects that advocates for quality within the streams 
• Initiate and lead projects that strengthens the quality of services and review internal processes 
• Prepare structured evaluations on risk and benefits realizations of change initiatives 
• Remain current and knowledgeable to ensure all changes in policies and regulations applicable to SSC are implemented to ensure compliance. 
• Evaluate the impact of changes in regulations on internal controls and advise management accordingly. 
• Keep abreast of latest advancements in Services delivery quality assurance and data analysis and ensure SSC team is trained and updated. 
• Help design and deliver training programs to address compliance needs, risk management and internal controls. 

3. Data analysis and reporting 
• Develops and provides reports on a regular basis to the SSC Management Team inclusive of trend analysis and data insights 
• Maintains the individual functions, SSC teams and overall KPIs and SLAs dashboard 
• Engages stakeholders to gather and document requirements relating to the quality initiatives 
• Identifies training needs and organizes training interventions to meet quality standards 
• Uses Project Management methodologies to plan, implement and track deliverables • Communicate quality assurance findings and improvements to stakeholders regularly. 

4. Safeguarding 
• Ensure that Plan International’s global policy for Safeguarding and PII policy for Preventing Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse; and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures. 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE 
• A Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, economics, financial management, human resources management, public administration, or another relevant field. 
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in quality assurance roles, preferably within a shared services or similar environment with at least one year involved in data analysis. 
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting is required 
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office is required. 
• Good Knowledge of customer services metrics, service level agreements and customer survey techniques are required. 
• Experience in project management or change management is an asset 
• Experience internal audit and/or risk management with a proven track record of interfacing with multiple levels of the organization is highly desired. 
• Experience working in a Shared Service Centre environment/business support Centre is desirable. 

Location: Nairobi
Closing Date: 10th September 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the . In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.