**Overview** Primary customer liaison between prospective and accredited/certified organizations at The Joint Commission. Manage assigned customer accounts throughout the duration of the Accreditation/Certification cycle and all ancillary related activities. Manage and assess the customers’ preparedness for surveys, coordinate survey planning, executing post survey analysis, and follow-up communications. Provide coaching and education to the customers related to the Accreditation/Certification process, workflows, enhancements/changes to the survey process and regulatory changes. Work under the guidance of the Lead Account Executive on an ongoing basis to ensure accuracy of work, excellent communication, and management of assigned customers. **Responsibilities** PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. The following responsibilities apply only if assigned to a Strategic Business Unit (SBU): Actively contributes to the successful achievement of SBU performance objectives through effective SBU team involvement and proactive communication and collaboration. 2. Application Processing: Processes applications for survey for organizations in an assigned specialty group. Interprets data submitted by a customer to ensure that an appropriate survey can be performed for all services and sites of care. Prioritizes and processes applications based on resurvey dates and initial customer preferences. Communicates with resurvey customers to ensure applications are received within acceptable timeframes for processing and scheduling. If assistance is needed, questions are referred to a higher level account representative within the teams. 3. Agenda Setting: Most accreditation/certification programs use template-driven agendas that may undergo customization. It is the responsibility of the account executive to post the appropriate template agenda(s) to the customer’s extranet site within the required timeframe. If assistance is needed, questions are referred to a higher level account executive within the teams. 4. Survey Report Processing: Processes survey reports for all customers in assigned specialty group. When the account executive identifies an organization with a potential adverse outcome, the account executive refers the report to the manager of the Adverse Team. The account executive processes on-site survey event reports, follow-up reports including evidence of standards compliance (ESC) and measure of success (MOS) reports, within the required timeframes. If assistance is needed, questions are referred to a higher level account executive within the teams. 5. Correspondence: Responds to customer correspondence regarding event planning, complaints, mergers, acquisitions, site changes and other activities associated with the accreditation/certification process within the required timeframes. The account executive consults with a higher level account executive, manager, or other senior leadership in preparation of an appropriate response when needed. 6. Ongoing Monitoring of Accreditation/Certification Related Activities: Maintains customer lists and tracks planned activities and required submissions. Communicates with customers to ensure intercycle and follow-up events are received within acceptable timeframes for processing. Should any discrepancies be identified, the account executive works with a higher level account executive and other staff and departments to resolve the issue. 7. Maintain a High Level of Customer Satisfaction: Maintains a successful level of responsiveness, serves as a knowledgeable resource of information or liaison, and conducts oneself in a manner that exemplifies respectfulness to all customers, internal and external. If assistance is needed in meeting customer service expectations, questions are referred to a higher level account executive within the teams. 8. Attend Ongoing Training for Job Responsibilities: Participates in ongoing training that is designed to develop the skills of the service team staff (at all levels) in order to carry out the assigned job responsibilities. Actively pursues training that consists of, but is not limited to, attendance at staff meeting and brown bag presentations, familiarity with standard operating procedures, participation in special topical training sessions, and usage of available on-line resources with a goal of ensuring responses and results that are accurate and consistent with staff as a whole. 9. Meet Dashboard Turn Around Time Requirements: Process applications, survey reports, correspondence and monitors other accreditation/certification related activities within the required timeframes. If assistance is needed, questions are referred to a higher level account executive within the teams. **Qualifications** SPECIAL SKILLS AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS 1. Good customer service skills. 2. Good communication skills. 3. Ability to prioritize and balance workload expectations. 4. Willingness to adapt to a changing environment. KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS 1. Completion of the account executive trainee program/requirements and successful evaluation of competencies as evaluated by a manager. 2. A Bachelors degree, preferably in a health or ancillary health discipline. 3. Computer proficiency of The Joint Commission software (Knowledge of Microsoft Suites preferred). This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by an employee assigned to this position. The description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills and abilities, and working conditions associated with this position. All requirements are subject to possible modification due to business needs and/or reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. **Job ID** _2024-6559_ **\# of Openings** _1_ **Category** _Account Representative_ + Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. + Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here. + The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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