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Arizona State University

Customer Service Specialist Sr

🇺🇸 Phoenix, AZ

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $52K - $55K

💻 Customer Support

🗓️ December 19th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Arizona State University is hiring a Customer Service Specialist Sr. This role requires serving as a primary contact for Arizona PBS members and viewers, providing information on broadcasts, programming, and membership, resolving customer issues promptly, and managing a team of student office aides.

Highlights
  • Responds to internal and external customers regarding broadcast schedules, programming, membership, and station-related inquiries.
  • Performs account lookups, data entry, modifications, and payment processing using multiple systems and databases.
  • Manages and trains new Customer Service Specialists and supervises student office aides, including hiring, scheduling, payroll processing, and training.
  • Requires proficiency with database software and experience in high-volume customer service environments.
  • Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree and three years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of experience and training.
  • Salary range is $51,500 to $55,000 per year, depending on experience.
  • Works in an office setting requiring phone and electronic equipment use, extended sitting, and physical activities such as bending and lifting up to 25 pounds.
  • Operates within Arizona PBS, a major public media organization operated by Arizona State University serving 1.9 million households.
  • Position includes background and fingerprint checks due to safety/security sensitivity.
  • Driving is not required for this position.

Customer Service Specialist Sr Full Description

Job Profile:

Student Support Specialist 2

Job Family:

Student Support Services

Time Type:

Full time

Max Pay - Depends on experience:

$55,000.00 USD Annual

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary:
Connects students to a variety of academic, professional, and personal support services to overcome academic and non-academic barriers and enhance their skills to increase persistence and graduation rates.

Job Description:

The Customer Service Specialist Senior serves as a primary contact for Arizona PBS members and viewers on such subjects as broadcast schedule, programming, membership, and other station-related questions. Responds to customers both internal and external, in a professional manner and in an appropriate time frame.

Salary: $51,500 -$55,000 per year; DOE

Essential Duties :

  • Communicates with constituents and colleagues, internal and external, in a positive, helpful and professional manner.

  • Provides information about Arizona PBS programs and services, and answers general questions about all areas of the station via phone and email.

  • Delivers services specific to function, which include but are not limited to: account lookups, data entry and modifications, and payment processing via multiple systems and databases.

  • Resolves customer issues received through phone and email contact.

  • Escalates issues as needed for timely resolution.

  • Flexible with daily activities to quickly change priorities to address needs and/or resolve customer issues.

  • Ensures highest quality service delivered to customers for assigned function and/or program in accordance with specified guidelines and priorities.

  • Trains new Customer Service Specialists as needed.

  • Provides assistance with receptionist coverage as needed.

  • Manages team of student office aides. Duties include, but are not limited to: Interviewing, Hiring, Scheduling, Processing Payroll, Training.

Desired Qualifications :

  • Experience in a high-volume customer service environment

  • Experience working in database software

  • Experience supervising others

Working Environment :

  • Requires ability to use phone and electronic equipment

  • Activities are performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding and manipulating a computer mouse

  • Required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work

  • Frequent bending, reaching, lifting, pushing and pulling up to 25 pounds

  • Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts

  • Clearly communicate to perform essential function

Department Statement:

Arizona PBS, one of the nation's largest and leading public media organizations, delivers in-depth programming on news and public affairs, science, arts and culture, plus dedicated children's programming, to 1.9 million households and 4.8 million people, reaching 80 percent of the homes in Arizona. On air, online and in the community, Arizona PBS brings its trusted brand of storytelling to Arizonans via four broadcast TV channels and its arizonapbs.org website. The station, which started in 1961, is operated by Arizona State University.

Driving Requirement:

Driving is not required for this position.

Location:

Campus: Downtown Phoenix

Funding:

No Federal Funding

Instructions to Apply:

Current Employees and Students should apply directly within Workdayusing the Jobs Hub. Use this link and log in using SSO:

https://www.myworkday.com/asu/d/inst/1$9925/9925$16124.htmld

To be considered, your application must include all of the following attachments:

  • Cover letter
  • Resume/CV

Note: Multiple documents can be submitted into the attachment box. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.

Please include all employment information in month/year format (e.g., 6/88 to 8/94), job title, job duties and name of employer for each position. Resume should clearly illustrate how prior knowledge and experience meets the Minimum and Desired qualifications of this position. NOTE: GA and Intern positions are counted as .5 for job experience (ie. 1 year equals 6 months experience equivalency). Only electronic applications are accepted for this position.

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ASU Statement:

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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Employment Verification Statement:

ASU conducts pre-employment screening which may include verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications.

Background Check Statement:

ASU conducts pre-employment screening for all positions which includes a criminal background check, verification of work history, academic credentials, licenses, and certifications. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the background check.

Fingerprint Check Statement:

This position is considered safety/security sensitive and will include a fingerprint check. Employment is contingent upon successful passing of the fingerprint check.