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User Support Officer - Fully Remote
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
67 days ago
Salary
£28K - £30K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
User Support Officer - Fully Remote
mySociety
mySociety is a small, purposeful charity which uses digital tools to help people to participate more fully in democracy, make governments and society more transparent and help people work together to address societal challenges. We’re looking for a User Support Officer who has experience working with complex, high-volume digital services. The ideal candidate will have a high level of user support experience and an eye for detail. You’ll be working as part of a nimble, digital-first, and entirely remote team - you can work from anywhere in the UK! You will have the opportunity to meet your colleagues face to face at our quarterly in person team meetings. The User Support Officer provides frontline user support for some of our key citizen services: FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou, WDTK and WriteToThem; as well as overseeing and managing mySociety incoming enquiries. The User Support Officer handles a varied daily caseload, triaging and responding to user queries, identifying high-priority cases, and escalating where appropriate to ensure issues are resolved effectively. This is a part-time role (4 hours per day, 20 hours per week, split across 5 days) to start as soon as possible. No recruiters or agencies, please.
Job Requirements
- What does the role involve?
- Ensure users receive timely, effective user support.
- Manage incoming support demand, ensuring all enquiries are triaged, prioritised appropriately and progressed without delay.
- Ensure high-risk, sensitive, or legally significant cases are identified and handled or escalated appropriately.
- Ensure all work is carried out in line with data protection law and mySociety policies.
- Communicate and act on recurring issues and gaps in internal and external guidance to inform service improvement.
- User support
- Manage incoming enquiries across WhatDoTheyKnow, FixMyStreet, WriteToThem and TheyWorkForYou, reviewing, prioritising, and responding to requests in a timely and consistent manner.
- Provide clear, appropriate guidance to users navigating the services, including people who are confused, frustrated, or in difficult personal circumstances.
- Follow enquiries through to resolution, maintaining clear communication with users and keeping accurate records of actions taken.
- Recognise when an enquiry involves sensitive personal information, potential safeguarding concerns, legal risk, or data protection considerations and act appropriately.
- Handle personal and sensitive information with discretion, in line with data protection requirements and mySociety's internal policies.
- Identify recurring issues or patterns in user enquiries and flag these to the Digital Service Manager and programme teams.
- Maintain the accuracy of key service data, including contact details for public authorities and elected representatives.
- Coordinate with colleagues across programme or technical teams as needed.
- Documentation and continuous improvement
- Maintain and update help pages, internal guidance and canned responses so that common enquiries can be handled consistently and efficiently.
- Contribute to improving support processes and user guidance.
- Ensure support records are maintained in an organised and accessible way within the helpdesk system.
- Requirements
- Essential
- Experience providing excellent user support, ideally in an online platform, or information-intensive environment.
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to respond clearly and sensitively across a wide range of enquiry types and user situations.
- Comfortable working at volume: able to manage a high number of open enquiries simultaneously without losing track of statutory deadlines.
- Sound judgement about when to act independently and when to escalate.
- Able to recognise when an enquiry involves personal data or a sensitive or high risk situation and to handle it accordingly.
- Proactive with good organisational skills.
- Comfortable working remotely and collaboratively with colleagues across technical and non-technical teams.
- Desirable
- Experience using helpdesk or ticketing systems (for example Freshdesk or Zendesk).
- Experience supporting users of online platforms or digital public services.
- Experience contributing to help documentation, knowledge bases, or user guidance.
- Familiarity with data protection principles in a support or case-handling context.
- Experience working with volunteer communities or platforms hosting user-generated content.
- An interest in freedom of information, civic technology, or public interest digital services.
- Have any questions? Drop an email to Yolanda Gomes on recruitment2026@mysociety.org.
Benefits
- This is a permanent role with a salary in the range of £28,000 to £30,000 (FTE) per year, plus pension (4% employer, 4% employee).
- You must be based in the UK and you need to have the right to work in this country (sorry, but we can’t offer help with visas or relocation expenses).
- You can read more about what it’s like working at mySociety at https://www.mysociety.org/about/careers/culture/
- We want you to enjoy being a part of the mySociety team, so we’ll do everything we can to support you in making your job work for you. We’re always willing to discuss flexible hours or co-working spaces. Wherever you are in the UK, and however you want to work, we’ll do our best to make sure you have everything you need to do your job well.
- Deadlines and dates
- The application deadline is Sunday 3 May 2026 and interviews will take place over the following few weeks via video conference. We will aim to notify applicants of whether or not they will be invited to interview by mid May.
- Application instructions
- Your application should consist of a CV and covering letter. We’ll rely on your covering letter to show us why your skills make you a good fit for this role when we are shortlisting candidates, so take your time getting it right.
- We are particularly interested in improving the diversity of our team and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled and experienced people, and particularly from candidates with Black, Asian or other Minority Ethnic heritage, in line with our EDI strategy.
- We are monitoring our recruitment processes to ensure we are doing everything we can to encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We would ask you to please complete our optional equalities monitoring form. The information you share in the form will be anonymous and will not influence the assessment of your application.
- We will shortlist all applications anonymously. So please use your initials rather than your name on your CV and cover letter, and don’t include identifying details such as your name or email addresses on these attached documents.
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