Partnerships Associate at Social Hackers Academy

Social Hackers Academy is a Non-Profit organisation that offers free tech education classes to refugees and vulnerable groups that leads to employment. The Partnerships Associate position is key to achieving our mission as he/she is responsible for creating partnerships with tech companies in order to hire our graduates.

The Partnerships Associate is tasked with identifying and generating partnership opportunities through both inbound and outbound activities. The right candidate will be one who works well under pressure, thinks out-of-the-box, easily initiates relaxed but informative two-way phone conversations with prospects, and is highly self-motivated. The right candidate will also understand how to assess a company’s needs and cater the outreach to each prospect specifically.

Responsibilities:

Follow-up on inbound leads and identify qualified opportunities
Be responsible for educating and developing prospects leading to hand-off to the Account Executive
Create target prospects lists and penetrate key accounts
Cold call / email into prospects generated by variety of outside sources
Drive attendance for webinars and live seminars, set meetings for conferences
Collaborate with marketing team members on strategic sales approach
Ensure successful follow through of sales cycle by maintaining accurate activity and lead qualification information in CRM application

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Partnerships Associate at Social Hackers Academy