Partner Account Manager

Reports to: Head of Partnerships & Groups

Working location: Cape Town/Remote

Start date: ASAP

About Us

Looking to find a real purpose in your career again? At GVI, our teams bring a range of specialised skills together for a common goal: supporting a more sustainable future.

GVI is an international multi-award-winning social enterprise. We offer conservation and community development programs in 13 countries, all aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and led by our teams and experts from the communities we operate in.

Working at GVI is fast-paced and fun. We value passion, authenticity and innovation, and we treat each other with respect. But we can do better than words to show you who we are! To see what it's really like to work for GVI, click here.

About the role

Role and responsibilities:

• Responsible for outbound business development to all regions with the goal of securing new meetings with schools as well as strategic partners across all regions.
• Work with the Group Sales Manager to optimise bookings from schools.
• Management of the group sales process which includes converting applications to confirmed bookings and hosting parent and student meetings.
• Providing higher level and day to day support to agency bookings.
• Responsible for management of Booking and Referral partnership accounts which includes website management and training webinars.
• Level 1 emergency phone duties on a rotational schedule

About you

If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour,  we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

Personal attributes:

• Incredibly organised, detail oriented and task focused
• You have an exceptional phone manner, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Target driven
• Natural ability to build rapport with people from all over the world
• Commitment, drive and enthusiasm to develop yourself
• Hardworking and a problem solver
• Flexible, open-minded, adaptable team player

Professional skills and experience:

• Experience with outbound business development
• Experience in Sales (Minimum 1 year experience)
• Excellent and verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management
• Effective problem solving skills
• Strong administration skills
• Adaptability
• Operating effectively in a team environment

Benefits

We’re not interested in empty perks like having a coffee culture. We do have coffee – if you join our central team in Cape Town, you could find yourself roped into coffee and snack challenges if you visit the office, but you could just as easily be taking your morning coffee at Roots cafe, high in the mountains of northern Thailand if you work on a base. Here’s what our global team enjoys:

• Social fund
• Training fund
• Half days on the first Friday of each quarter
• Collaborative, flexible culture
• Transparency – hear directly from the CEO consistently
• We laugh a lot, genuinely care about and support each other, and do the occasional dress-up

To apply

Please send your CV along with a cover letter stating why you feel you would be the best candidate for this role.

Please note: We will do our utmost to respond to all applicants, however, given the large volume of applications we receive, this isn't always possible. If you do not hear back from us within three-four weeks, please take it that on this occasion your application was unsuccessful.