Member Advocate III

WEOKIE Federal Credit Union; Edmond (OK); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

WEOKIE offers a Senior Counselor role with a focus on elevating member experiences and proactively guiding members through financial products and services. The position emphasizes relationship-building and accurate processing of accounts across systems.

Key responsibilities include consultative member interactions, identifying opportunities to save members time and money, and maintaining compliance with policies while delivering extraordinary service.

Qualifications

• Requires high school diploma or GED.
• Minimum 6 months in retail financial services.
• Must hold CCUFC or be able to earn designation within 24 months.

Responsibilities

• Interact with members to meet financial needs and proactively offer products and services.
• Process new accounts and maintenance tasks for members.
• Make outbound calls to increase member engagement and referrals.
• Deliver exceptional service and follow established policies and procedures.

Skills

Member interaction

Communication skills

Sales opportunities

Customer service excellence

Education

High School Diploma or GED

CCUFC certification within 24 months

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Title: Member Advocate III (Sr. Counselor)

The Member Advocate IIIdeliversextraordinary service whileencouragingmembersandnon members to choose the Credit Union as their primary financial services provider by proactively building member relationships. The Member Advocate IIIproactivelysuggestsappropriateproductsandservicestohelpmembers better manage their financial needs and provide information about the Credit Union, its mission, and its products and services.

• Consultatively interact with members to help meet their spoken and unspoken financial needs, proactively recommend Credit Union products and services, and accurately address member service needs. Educate members on ease of use and convenience services, including technology where applicable, to encourage increased use of the cooperative while building and increasing member engagement.
• Accurately process new accounts for new and existing members and perform maintenance on members’ accounts as requested. (Do it right the first time). Opens and maintains IRA, and trust accounts, commercial accounts on various systems, including data entry, and paperwork processing
• Ask openended questions to uncover additional opportunities to save members money and/or time by reviewing accounts and reports as well as making outbound calls to increase member engagement
• Provide extraordinary member service by being knowledgeable, engaging with members, making members feel valued and consistently applying defined service standards.Accuratelyprocesstransactionsformembers,includingbutnotlimitedto, cashingchecks,receivingdepositsandpayments,processingwithdrawals,conducting information inquiries.
• Proactively identify qualified referrals for members that will save members time, money and provide peace of mind.
• Ensuresproperpolicies,procedures,riskmitigationactivities,andoperatingcontrols are followed. Reports gaps in policies, procedures, and operating controls to leadership to ensure member impact and risk is mitigated.
• Assists Member Relationship Center leadership with training, operations, vault responsibilities. Ensures employees perform in a safe and sound manner and deliver an extraordinary service experience for all members. Responsible for Member Relationship Center operations in absence of manager or assistant manager.
• Performsotherdutiesasassigned.
• Provideextraordinary member service by being knowledgeable, engaging with members, making members feel valued and consistently applying defined service standards. Success definedbycurrentservicebenchmark(suchasmembersatisfactionsurveys,basiccourtesies and observation).
• Assignedexpectationsandobjectives,asidentifiedintheSuccessPlans,aremetand/or exceeded.
• Managementandemployeesareassistedasneeded,contributingtoa“team”atmosphere.
• AllWFCUpoliciesandproceduresarefollowedandguidelinesareconsistentlyappliedand maintained. Operate within the acceptable ranges of the balancing and quality of work parameters.
• Allactivities are efficiently conducted, generally error free, and are completed following the appropriatepolicies,procedures,operationalcontrols,andcompliancecontrols.(i.e. security, member identification and fraud prevention).
• Losses,errors,andrisksarecontrolledandmitigatedbyadheringtoallapplicable policies and procedures.
• Workaccordingtoschedulesanddepartmentattendanceguidelines.Needmayarise whereby this position may provide coverage at another Member Relationship Center.

Specialized or Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• HighSchoolDiplomaorGEDrequired.
• Atleast6monthsintheretailfinancialservicesindustryisrequired.
• Required to hold Certified Credit Union Financial Counselor (CCUFC) or be able to earn designation within 24 months of being in role.
• Previoussupervisoryskillsarepreferredbutnotrequired(thisisanentrylevelsupervisor position).
• Mustbefamiliarwithmemberexperienceoperations.
• Must beableto learnanduse avarietyofsoftwareapplicationssuchasMicrosoft Office and the credit union’s core processing systems.
• Theemployeeisfrequentlyrequiredtowalkandsit.Theemployeeisoccasionallyrequired to climb, balance, stoop, kneel or crouch.

Behavioral Competencies

Behavioral competencies are the skills and personal characteristics that an individual should possess in order to be successful in this position.

Core Competencies

Core competencies are consistent for all positions across the organization and are aligned with WFCU’s core values.

• Member Focus (internal and external): Builds member confidence, is committed to increasing member satisfaction, sets achievable member expectations, assumes responsibility for solving member problems, ensures commitments to members are met, solicits opinions and ideas from members, and responds to internal members.
• Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, and meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
• Integrity/Ethics: Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, supports company values, conveys good news and bad.

Job Specific Competencies

• Leadership: Leads peers and members through change and adversity, makes the tough call when needed, builds consensus when appropriate, motivates and encourages others.
• People Development: Provides feedback and coaching, rewards hard work and risk taking, takes mentoring role, challenges and develops Member Advocate I and IIs, accepts mistakes, provides visibility/opportunity.
• Productivity: Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, handles information flow.
• Quality: Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Interpersonal Skills: Has good listening skills, builds strong relationships, is flexible/open- minded, negotiates effectively, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism.
• Job Knowledge: Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.

Physical Demands

The physicaldemandsdescribedherearerepresentativeofthosethatmustbe met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to see details at a close range. The employee may be required to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Theworkerisnotsubstantiallyexposedtoadverseenvironmentalconditions.Thenoise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

WEOKIE does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of Protected Status, marital status, and political belief or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal and/or state law.Bona fide occupational qualifications will be applied impartially. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all our members, our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/protected veterans

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.