Call Associate Jobs in Cedar Rapids, IA (NOW HIRING)

Overview

MCI is one of the fastest-growing tech-enabled business services companies in the USA, with a strong call center footprint and operations that extend across multiple countries. We deliver Customer Experience (CX), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) cloud technology solutions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, retail, government, education, telecom, technology e-commerce, and financial services. Our contact centers are powered by both on-site and remote agents, leveraging advanced technologies to enhance customer journeys, drive scalability and reduce costs. 

At MCI we are committed to fostering an environment where professionals can build meaningful careers, access continuous learning and development opportunities and contribute to the success of a globally expanding, industry-leading organization.  

Our employee development team is looking for experienced call center customer service and sales trainers to facilitate new hire training on behalf of commercial and public sector clients.  In this role you will be responsible for onboarding processes, training delivery, and material and curriculum development.

This is a full-time, local, and on-site position. Candidates for this role should be charismatic public speakers, friendly, creative, highly reliable, and possess a strong work ethic.  A background in call center customer service or sales or experience in group instruction in a corporate classroom setting required.  

To be considered for this role, you must complete a full application on our company careers page, including all screening questions and a brief pre-employment test.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide onboarding training for the newest members of our customer service and sales team and work with representatives to improve ongoing performance.
• Facilitate classroom-style training on products, services, techniques, systems, and processes.
• Assists in planning, conducting, coordinating, and implementing a comprehensive training program for staff.
• Work extensively with business partners and SMEs to perform needs analysis, develop learning objective
• Create and develop training curriculums and training materials based on proven adult learning techniques, including ADDIE, Rapid Course Development, and Adult Learning Theory.
• Develop and maintain training tools, including worksheets, templates, databases, and reports
• Improves training effectiveness by implementing new approaches and techniques, making support readily available, integrating support with routine job functions.
• Use a variety of instructional methods to ensure maximum delivery effectiveness
• Develop and create training resources and maintain/update systems training environment and library of training resources to align with operational excellence.
• Develop assessments to measure and assess the effectiveness of the curriculum and learner performance
• Monitor trainees' knowledge before and after training to help determine follow-up training required
• Provide follow-up coaching about job performance and quality assurance to new employees after training.
• Work one-on-one with representatives to reinforce skills taught during training sessions
• Utilize established curriculum and assist in developing new educational materials
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

WONDER IF YOU ARE A GOOD FIT FOR THIS POSITION?

All positive, and driven applicants are encouraged to apply. The Ideal candidates for this position are highly motivated and dedicated and should possess the below qualities:

• 1+ years of experience teaching or training in a classroom environment (in person or virtual)
• Associate degree and combination of education and relevant work experience
• Exceptional interpersonal & communication skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, Word & PowerPoint
• Understanding of training tools and techniques
• Possess practical conflict resolution skills (both customer and agent conflict)
• Possess time management, planning, organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Excellent presentation skills (oral and written), as well as the ability to motivate, teach and inspire staff.
• Ability to work in a professional but fast-paced environment
• Excellent planning, class management, and coordination skills and ability to work with a variety of learning styles.
• Strong understanding of adult learning theory, curriculum design, and training.
• Comfortable delivering constructive feedback to address knowledge, skill, and performance gaps
• Comfortable providing and accepting critical feedback. 
• Capable of prioritizing and organizing work efficiently to meet deadlines
• Experience in assessing learning needs and identifying performance gaps
• Experience defining curriculum strategies and training plans
• Experience designing and developing training content, courses or programs, and training evaluation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Military, local, state or federal government experience is a plus
• Experience working in a contact center environment is a plus.
• Graduation from an accredited two-year or four-year college or university is a plus
• Experience working with Learning Management Systems (LMS) is a plus