Open Enrollment & Airfare Coordinator

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Open Enrollment & Airfare Coordinator

This position closes on Saturday, August 9, 2014 at 11:59 PM.

Location: Missoula, MT

Description: Ecology Project International seeks an Open Enrollment Sales and Airfare Coordinator who will work with the Recruitment Manager to implement EPI’s open enrollment marketing, recruitment, and sales strategies. This position will also coordinate airfare purchases for visiting participants. Responsibilities involve recruiting Open Enrollment students from the US and abroad via direct sales, mailing campaigns, and trade shows and conferences; growing the Open Enrollment recruitment program; communications and public relations; additional marketing-related work; and purchasing of all visiting participant airfare. This position is supervised by the Recruitment Manager.

Primary Responsibilities:

Direct marketing and sales: Support Recruitment Manager in enrolling full-paying, visiting participants that will attend one of EPI’s field programs.
• Outreach and sales: Enroll individual students in EPI’s Open Enrollment field-science programs and cultivate and manage relationships with new schools, teachers, organizations, and students.
• Program Development: Grow and lead the Open Enrollment program.
• House/Informational Events: Plan, promote, and host informational events for students, parents, and teachers.
• School visits & Conferences: Lead and assist in preparation, execution, and follow-up associated with occasional school visits and conference participation.
Airfare Purchasing: Support Recruitment Manager in researching, purchasing, and monitoring airfare for all visiting EPI participants.
Recruitment Support: Assist in customer service, database maintenance, and marketing projects.

Qualifications
Required:
o Bachelor’s degree
o 1-3 Years of direct sales experience
o Extremely detail oriented with a high degree of organization and persistence
o Excellent written and verbal communication skills
o Proficiency with Microsoft office standard applications, including Access, Excel, Word.
o Ability to work independently including the ability to simultaneously manage discreet projects and on-going accounts
o Maintain good humor and apply professional, common-sense solutions to everyday challenges
o Embrace the mission and goals of EPI

Preferred:
o Master’s degree in sales, marketing or communication
o Experience living and working in Latin America, especially Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica and/or Ecuador
o Experience using web-based sales and marketing databases like Salesforce.com
o Experience working in education or travel industry, particularly with airlines and travel agencies
o The ideal candidate will be confident, out-going, well-spoken, creative, and persistent

Schedule: The Open Enrollment and Airfare Coordinator will work half time starting in October and go to full time in November 2014. This position is based in our Missoula office with occasional travel for conferences and school visits throughout North America.

Compensation/Benefits: $30,000 with competitive benefits package

Apply online at https://ecologyproject.submittable.com/submit/33006 by August 9, 2014 at 11:59 pm MST.