Prime Bank Africa are looking for a Contact Centre Officer in Nairobi with some experience in customer service, contact centre operations, or a related role.
Reports to: Contact Centre Manager
Department: Customer Service
Grade: Officer
Work Centre: Head Office, Nairobi
Purpose: To deliver efficient, compliant and high-quality customer service across inbound and outbound calls, digital and social media channels, and back-office processes, while supporting customer satisfaction, retention, business growth and continuous service improvement.
Key responsibilities:
- Handle incoming calls, emails, chats, social media messages and other customer inquiries professionally; provide accurate information on banking products, services, accounts and procedures.
- Make outbound calls for customer follow-ups, surveys, service campaigns, lead generation, product promotion, customer retention and payment reminders or collections where applicable.
- Resolve customer complaints and service requests within agreed service levels, escalating complex or unresolved matters to the appropriate teams.
- Support account maintenance, customer requests, digital banking assistance and other assigned back-office processing, ensuring accuracy and timely turnaround.
- Identify appropriate cross-selling opportunities and contribute to customer engagement, sales, service and productivity targets.
- Verify customer identity where required, maintain confidentiality, protect customer data and comply with KYC requirements, banking regulations and internal policies.
- Record customer interactions, actions and outcomes accurately in CRM and other systems; maintain complete and up-to-date customer records.
- Monitor customer feedback and social media mentions, moderate online interactions and represent the Bank professionally across digital channels.
- Monitor and evaluate calls and other customer interactions against quality standards and scorecards; provide constructive feedback, identify training needs and support calibration and quality improvement initiatives.
- Work collaboratively with the Contact Centre Manager, colleagues and relevant teams to resolve customer issues and improve service delivery.
Job Experience / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Banking, Customer Service, Communications, Marketing, Quality Management or a related field.
- Relevant experience in customer service, contact centre operations, back-office banking, digital customer engagement, sales, collections or quality assurance. Typically 1–3 years for agent-focused duties;
- Knowledge of banking products, customer service standards, contact centre operations, digital channels, customer confidentiality, data protection, KYC and regulatory requirements.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, CRM/contact centre systems, reporting tools and relevant digital or social media platforms.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong written and verbal communication, listening and customer relationship skills.
- Problem-solving, complaint handling, negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Attention to detail, accuracy, analytical ability and report writing.
- Digital literacy and ability to use CRM, contact centre and social media tools.
- Time management, multitasking, resilience and ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
- Professionalism, integrity, confidentiality and commitment to service quality and continuous improvement.