RSPB - Self-Employed Member Recruiter

Salary : OTE £450 per three day week

Are you interested in helping wildlife and getting paid for it too?! Are you a people-person and passionately interested in the environment?

The RSPB relies on public support to enable us to carry out our vital conservation work. We need confident, outgoing people to talk to the public about our work and recruit new RSPB members at events across the South Downs region.

You already have the perfect mix of sales/marketing and interpersonal skills, combine this with a passion for wildlife and voilá ? you?ll be signing people up to support our campaigns in no time! Campaigns like ?Save the Sumatran Rainforest?, ?Stop Climate Chaos?, ?Save the Albatross? and ?Stop Bird of Prey Persecution?.

We?ll pay you commission when you sign up a new member to Europe?s largest conservation charity. Rest assured that 100% of all the membership subscriptions you raise will go directly to the RSPB to be used for one of the campaigns above, or to educate school groups, or to keep over 200 reserves running, or to lobby the government, or to demonstrate against an airport being expanded?the work is endless. That?s why we need determined people who won?t get upset if somebody says ?no?.

Instead, you?ll bounce back and find the next person who believes that our shoreline should be protected by law, rather than being squeezed to destruction or over-fished.

Job Start : Immediately
Job Duration : October 2008
Job Requirements : Essential qualifications/experience:

* GCSE or equivalent
* Experience in a face to face sales/marketing role.
* Experience of delivering targets under pressure.

Essential skills/attributes:

* Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills
* Excellent and persuasive verbal communication skills
* Ability to work under own initiative
* Proactive and assertive
* Ability to act as an ambassador for the RSPB at all times
* Excellent listening skills
* An awareness and interest in environmental issues

Essential Behaviours/circumstances:

* Inspirational personality with the ability to enthuse
* Highly self-motivated, able to deal with negative response/rejection
* Friendly open personality
* Able to travel and work extensively at ?unsociable hours? including weekends, bank holidays and evenings if required, using your own transport
* Persuasive, determined and enthusiastic
* Pleasant, tactful manner
* Honest and reliable