Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Service Operations Coordinator
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Job Summary
The Private Rented Sector (PRS) team is on a mission to raise the bar in England’s private rented market by improving standards, boosting transparency and ensuring an even handed approach to enforcement. At the heart of this is the register your rental property service: a national digital service introduced through the Renters’ Rights Act. designed to collect landlord, property and compliance information. It makes it easier for landlords to meet their legal duties, helps local authorities target enforcement where it matters most, and gives tenants the confidence to make informed choices about where they live.
Do you enjoy solving problems, helping customers and making services better? As a Service Operations Coordinator, you'll play a key role in delivering an excellent experience for users of a new national service that will help improve standards and transparency across England's private rented sector. Working closely with our Help Desk partner, suppliers and colleagues across the organisation, you'll help ensure customer interactions are handled with care, professionalism and a genuine focus on resolution. You'll be someone who enjoys building relationships, supporting others and using customer insight to identify opportunities for improvement, helping us continually enhance the service we provide. No two days will be the same.
You'll coordinate and manage a wide range of customer escalations, from complaints and policy enquiries to information governance requests, payment issues and more complex service matters. Using sound judgement, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering excellent customer outcomes, you'll ensure enquiries are thoroughly assessed, clearly evidenced and directed to the right teams. Through the insights you gather from customer feedback, complaints and contact trends, you'll help shape guidance, processes and service improvements, making a real difference to both our customers and the future of the service.
Job Description
As a Service Operations Co-ordinator you'll:
- Provide operational oversight and support to the Help Desk, ensuring incidents, service requests and complaints are managed in line with established processes and service standards.
- Provide day to day operational oversight of service desk activities, identifying emerging issues through operational insight, customer feedback and contact trends.
- Work with the Help Desk and suppliers to deliver consistent, high quality customer service across all contact channels, aligned to service standards, accessibility requirements and user needs.
- Manage and coordinate customer and operational escalations, ensuring they are clearly evidenced, appropriately prioritised and routed to the correct teams for resolution.
- Work with suppliers to monitor operational performance, ensuring accurate categorisation, effective escalation management and adherence to established processes, service levels and quality standards.
- Use customer feedback, complaints, contact trends and operational data to identify opportunities for service improvement and enhance the overall user experience.
- Work closely with product, policy, delivery and enforcement teams to ensure service impacts are understood and changes are effectively communicated and supported, including participation in operational readiness activities, smoke testing and validation of new or changed functionality.
- Maintain and improve operational guidance, knowledge articles and support materials to ensure consistent and accurate support across the service.
Person Specification
As a Service Operations Co-Ordinator You'll Have
- Proven experience managing customer enquiries, incidents, complaints or service requests through to resolution, including investigating issues, gathering evidence and coordinating support from specialist teams where required.
- Experience managing complex or sensitive customer complaints, enquiries and operational escalations, ensuring issues are prioritised appropriately, risks are identified and stakeholders are kept informed.
- Experience delivering excellent customer service and building effective working relationships with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, levels of seniority and varying levels of technical knowledge.
- Experience using customer feedback, operational data, complaints or performance information to identify service improvements and contribute to better customer outcomes.
- Experience managing operational issues across multiple teams, taking ownership of actions, coordinating input from others and ensuring risks, incidents or service issues are resolved or escalated appropriately.
- Sufficient technical appreciation to work effectively with technical teams and suppliers, understand the impact of service issues and contribute to investigation and resolution activities.
- Experience using customer service, case management, service management or reporting tools to investigate issues, analyse trends and support operational decision making, with practical experience of working with ITIL principles.
- Experience supporting service changes, releases or operational readiness activities, including user acceptance testing, smoke testing, knowledge reviews or early life support. Experience working in a contact centre, customer operations, complaints, service desk or customer experience environment.
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Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £36,169, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £10,478 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
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Selection Process Details
Application and Selection
The application process will be split into 2 stages, testing the following Success Profiles:
- Ability
- Behaviours
- Experience
- Technical
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Note: We do not consider direct CV applications. All applications must be submitted via the provided application link.
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Stage 1: Civil Service Judgement Test
Stage 2: Sift (CV)
Experience
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In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead sift questions listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to interview.
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Lead Sift Question (Technical)
Stage 2: Interview
Behaviours: Managing a Quality Service, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together, Making Effective Decisions
Technical: There will be a short technical test.
Sift and Interview Dates
Sifting is envisaged to take place from 8th September 2026
Interviews are currently being held remotely via video call. This could be subject to change.
How We Recruit
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- Applying
- Sifting
- Interview
- Interview Results & Feedback
- Reserve List
- Near Miss
- Civil Service Grades
- We are a DCS, RIS & GPTWV employer
- Reasonable Adjustments
How To Apply
What you need to know before applying.
You must review the following information from the MHCLG Career's Site before submitting your application. This step is essential to ensure your eligibility for the role and that your application is completed correctly.
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Nationality Requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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