Sales and Marketing Schools’ Co-ordinator

Start date:January 2014

Location:London, Surrey, North West and West Midlands

Join a fast moving, rapidly growing organisation working with young people across the country.The Challenge Network (TCN) runs community and youth programmes to mix diverse groups of people together to maximise their potential. The main one of these is, NCS - National Citizen Service.

We arenow looking for Schools’ Coordinators (SCs), to work with the Marketing Team, torecruit young people onto our programmes.

About NCS powered by The Challenge

The Challenge Network, (TCN) is a major provider of NCS in England and in 2013 gave 14,000 young people the opportunity to graduate from the NCS programme. TCN is the local NCS provider in London, West Midlands and The North West and has been successfully delivering the programme since the initial pilot in 2009.

NCS is alife changing experience for 15 to 17 year olds– they take part in a range of activities, meet new people and have the chance to give something back to their communities. Through NCS, their confidence grows as they learn new skills and have a great experience that they can put on CVs and university and college applications.

NCS is a government funded initiative that supports community engagement and social integration among young people. The programme has grown year on year and there will be a network of some 50,000 NCS graduates across the UK by the end of 2013.

About the Opportunity

The Sales and Marketing department is primarily responsible for signing up young people to take part in the NCS powered by The Challenge programme. With support, the SC will find, select and place 15-17 year-olds into TCN’s local programmes. They will be responsible for building and maintaining effective relationships with schools, exciting young people and parents, and helping both through a detailed application and assignment process to undertake the programme.

This is a great opportunity to develop already-strong communication and relationship building skills and have a positive impact on the marketing approach to engage young people. The role will require flexibility with working hours and there will be early mornings, late evenings and weekend working required at various points throughout the year.

Regular in-house training is available for all employees, and as The Challenge Network is a growing organisation opportunities may exist from summer 2014 for exceptional candidates to apply for a permanent role.

Person Specification

We are looking for exceptional individuals with the following qualities:

Essential

Skills

  • Strong telephone, verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to present persuasively to large groups
  • Ability to build rapport and manage relationships with young people, parents/ guardians and teachers face to face and over the phone.
  • Perserverence to prompt and assist young people and parents/ guardians through a detailed and sometimes complex sign up process
  • Support your team to achieve recruitment targets
  • Highly organised with the ability to juggle a varied and busy workload.

Behaviours

  • Understanding: Knowledge of own strengths; ability to empathasise and see others' point of view
  • Professionalism: Strong work ethic, time keeping, responsiveness
  • Responsibility: Take responsibility within and beyond the role
  • Trust: Trusted by colleagues to always deliver
  • Team work: Co-ordinates and co-operates with others across region and department in pursuit of common goals
  • Persistence and determination
  • Energy and initiative: A can-do attitude with an enthusiastic and persuasive personality
  • Flexibility: Adjusts work schedules, plans, prioritises as required to fulfil overall objectives
  • Humble: A positive, helpful attitude at all times in what is a busy and challenging role.
  • Calmness under pressure

Desirable

  • Good knowledge of local area
  • Sales experience
  • Experience working with 15-17 year olds and/or within the education sector
  • Full driving license (West Midlands and Surrey)

Further Details

In addition to being part of a fun, dynamic and challenging workforce we are proud to offer an attractive benefits package including company contributory pension, Simplyhealth cash plan, Ride 2 Work, childcare vouchers and discount vouchers to eligible employees.

  • This is a full-time, fixed term role until April or August 2014
  • Salary: £15,000+ (£17,000 in London) per annum
  • Please apply by sending a CV and covering letter explaining your suitability for the role by 15thJanuary to:

London+Surrey:

West Midlands:

North West:

Due to the high number of applications we are unable to respond to all applicants. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the deadline, please note that your application has not been successful this time.