Virtual Sales Assistant

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In a single PDF document, please submit a cover letter and your résumé via email to: Eric Shepherd (Click to view). Also, please read the job description, and in your email, please report a spelling error in the text below. Thank you.

The Foundation for Talent Transformation has an immediate need for a Virtual Sales Assistant to support outreach and engagement with speakers, coaches, donors, and members. The job requires excellent communication skills, writing skills, a customer service temperament, courage, and a personality to proactively communicate with colleagues, website users, and volunteers with information to build the reputation of the US-based Foundation.

This is a full-time position (30 hours/week) reporting to the President (based in the US). This position would best fit a self-motivated, organized, responsive, helpful, and deadline-oriented professional with the ability to work remotely with others worldwide.

The Foundation is a charitible organization assisting individuals in staying relevant by helping them understand themselves and their relationships with others. The Foundation is a US nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization. Click to view
The Virtual Sales Assistant’s role is to assist the President to build a community of those engaged with the Foundation’s mission and requires proactive and sensitive interaction with various internal and external contacts. This position will be responsive to members of the Foundation’s Community, including but not limited to:

? Coaches and consultants
? Users and members
? Member of the Advisory Board(s)
? Those supportive of the Foundation’s mission

Principal Duties and Responsibilities include suporting our outreach efforts to build goodwill in the Talent Transformation community by:

? Using CRM to maintain the directory of Coaches
? Responding to emails and messages from the Community
? Assisting President in engaging with speakers and the Community when required
? Assisting in building and nurturing relationships with the Community
? Manage the pipeline of organizations and individuals that want to be in the Foundation’s directories and webcasts
? Assist with logistics of the Foundation’s virtual and face-to-face events

Required Qualifications and Skills

? Excellent and proactive communication skills
? Creative writing skills
? Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as journalism, marketing, advertising, communications, or management is preferred
? Excellent US English writing skills for correspondence and short articles
? Marketing and communications skills to persuasively explain the Foundation’s story
? Ability to work independently and as part of a remotely configured team
? Proficiency in computer skills related to using a CRM, Teams, Word, managing message templates, correspondence, communications, and reporting.
? Highly collaborative, communicative, and has a “let’s build each other up” attitude.