Business Development Officers/Marketers at the Noble Hall Leadership Academy for Girls

Noble Hall Leadership Academy for Girls, a school dedicated to educating the total person - intellectual, spiritually, socially, physically and emotionally. Our ultimate aim is to create a new cadre of confident female leaders who are committed to making a positive difference

We are recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Business Development Officer/Marketer

Location: Abuja

Responsibilities & Duties

• Assist in building the brand of the institution in the industry, vendor and customer community
• Carry out market research through industry contacts, publications, trade events, news to identify ideas for growth
• Constantly upgrading business development techniques, and help in enhancing the company knowledge base by participating in training and educational initiatives
• Creating the annual business development budget in compliance with the academy’s policy and ethical / corporate governance framework and present it to the board for approval
• Designing the best negotiating strategies by considering the risks and rewards, and keeping in mind the counter-parties preferences & goals
• Develop and build a competitive business development package
• Dissemination of the management’s vision and goals among the operational and supporting teams
• Filtering out high potential deals by analysing business strategies, opportunity requirements / pre-requisites / financials, and internal priorities
• Reaching out directly or through partners to target prospective business deals
• Serve as the Marketer to ensure that the marketing and branding initiatives are efficient and effective
• You will be responsible for maintaining strong relationships with the internal staff, external stakeholders (partners, officials, regulators, etc).

As the Marketer, you will:

• Assist in creating fresh and up-to-date web content, to pass to the Web Development Officer and Web Designer as necessary
• Ensure the rise and the visibility of the Academy by carrying out an effective marketing and communications plan in order to: attract new students and retain the old students, publicise the strengths of the academy, promote the profile of the School as a whole to external audiences
• Manage the stock of all marketing collateral i.e. brochures; creating systems to identify when stock needs to be replenished
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations for SMT at recruitment events and conferences
• Provide ideas and input into the development of new e-marketing materials
• Be responsible for the School’s publicity stands and other events support material ordering new stock as required and ensuring the supply of stock to events
• Select and order promotional merchandise for exhibitions and for use as corporate gifts
• Update the School’s Facebook and Twitter accounts
• Write and produce marketing material (brochures, posters, flyers etc) for the School’s programmes, liaising with the relevant staff.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience as a BDO/Marketer
• Must possess a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or Marketing (A Masters degree and/professional certification will be an added advantage)
• Must be able to work with minimal or no supervision
• Must be agile and smart.

Skills:

• Ability to meet sales targets
• Appreciation of customer needs,
• Excellent communication skills, including high standards of written communication, grammar and spelling
• Excellent organisational and project management skills
• High energy levels,
• Industry knowledge
• Information management skills including a high level of accuracy and attention to details
• Marketing / sales orientation,
• Networking skills
• Presentation skills
• Researching & Prospecting skills
• Sound understanding of business principles.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2015.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's and cover letters with position applied for as subject title to: [email protected]

Note: If you are not qualified for this position please do not apply.