Help Desk Specialist (Salesforce) - Remote

Description

This role is contingent upon a contract award.

ICF is seeking a Help Desk Specialist to support an enterprise Salesforce services environment for a federal health client. This role will focus on user support, issue intake, troubleshooting, escalation coordination, stakeholder communications, knowledge base maintenance, and support for release and training activities.

The ideal candidate has experience supporting business users in a structured help desk or application support environment. This role requires clear communication, disciplined ticket management, sound troubleshooting skills, and the ability to coordinate with technical, functional, security, and operations teams to resolve user issues.

This work supports an enterprise Salesforce environment that includes shared platform services, application support, stakeholder onboarding, release communications, user guidance, incident support, and ongoing operations. The Help Desk Specialist will help maintain service quality by acknowledging requests, coordinating escalations, communicating status, and documenting recurring issues and resolutions.

Job Location: This position is remote within the United States.

Please note that ICF monitors employee work locations, restricts access from foreign locations and IP addresses, and prohi bits the use of personal VPN connections.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide first-line support for users of Salesforce applications, shared platform services, and related enterprise capabilities.
  
• Receive, document, triage, troubleshoot, and track help desk requests, incidents, service requests, and user questions.
  
• Coordinate escalations with Salesforce administrators, developers, integration teams, security teams, infrastructure teams, and vendor support teams as needed.
  
• Communicate request status, next steps, known issues, release impacts, outage information, and resolution updates to users and stakeholders.
  
• Support troubleshooting for access issues, application questions, workflow issues, data issues, configuration questions, and common user errors.
  
• Document recurring issues, resolutions, workarounds, escalation paths, and support procedures in standard operating procedures and knowledge base articles.
  
• Support release communications, user group communications, training session logistics , and stakeholder notices related to platform changes.
  
• Assist with user onboarding and access support in coordination with identity management, role approval, and application support processes.
  
• Track support trends, recurring pain points, and user feedback to help identify opportunities for service improvement.
  
• Support defect documentation by capturing clear issue descriptions, screenshots, user impact, replication steps, and related ticket details.
  
• Work within formal support, privacy, security, Section 508, documentation, and escalation expectations for a regulated federal environment.
  

What You Must Have

• Bachelor's degree
  
• 2+ years of experience providing help desk, service desk, application support, customer support, or technical support services.
  
• Ability to obtain and maintain a federal public trust clearance or equivalent client-required background investigation.
  
• Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US
  
• Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+yearof experience documenting, triaging, tracking, and resolving incidents, service requests, user questions, or production support tickets.
  
• 1+yearof experience developing ormaintainingknowledge base articles, standard operating procedures, user guidance, troubleshooting steps, orsupportdocumentation.
  
• 1+yearof experience coordinating escalations across technical, functional, operations, or vendor support teams.
  
  1+yearof experience using ticketing, collaboration, or knowledge management tools.
  
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  1+yearof experience supporting SaaS applications, CRM platforms, Salesforce applications, low-code/no-code platforms, or enterprise business applications.
  
  
• Experience supporting Salesforce users, Salesforce applications, or CRM-based service environments.
  
• Experience supporting help desk operations in federal, healthcare, financial services, or other regulated environments.
  
• Experience with access support, role-based permissions, identity management, or user onboarding processes.
  
• Experience supporting release communications, outage communications, training communications, or stakeholder notices.
  
• Experience documenting defects, user impacts, replication steps, screenshots, and escalation notes for technical teams.
  
• Experience supporting Section 508, privacy, security, audit, or formal change control expectations.
  

Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we're not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer . Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email Candidateaccommodation@icf.com and we will be happy to assist . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

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Candidate AI Usage Policy

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted . This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com . We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.

Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is :
$67,355.00 - $114,503.00

Nationwide Remote Office (US99)