DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AT C-RE-AID, APPLY NOW

 C-re-aid is looking for a motivated, adventurous Director of Business Development to lead our social enterprise team in Tanzania. C-re-aid starts a social enterprise, which will make quality handmade furniture made from local materials and sell on location. The Business Development will be responsible for the design, development and quality control of the furniture. The Director of Business Development is responsible for all sales and marketing activities of the agency and implementation of the business development plan, which includes: prospecting, lead generation and qualification, presentation development and follow-up. This placement is starting as a non-paid position for 6 months up to 1 year. Depending on the growth of the enterprise, the job conditions will be adjusted. Accommodation and commission on sold items are provided. 
C-re-a.i.d.: -Change -REsearch -Architecture -Innovation -Design is a Tanzanian and Belgian registered non-profit organisation; which conducts research by design on the possibilities of architecture. This is accomplished by the different branches of C-re-aid, including fieldwork, organizing construction, empowering local craftsmen and receiving students of architecture, interior architecture, engineering, and product design.

With architecture being the professional background of the founder of C-re-aid, the concentration of the organisation lays on housing in informal settlements. The organisation is active since 2012 and has conducted several projects in rural areas of Moshi, Tanzania. The projects are conducted with the assistance of students and aim to create cooperation between the C-re-aid team, students and beneficiaries. C-re-aid collaborates on projects with families of various backgrounds, social relations and material possessions. However, the crucial similarity is that all the families received assistance from C-re-aid to make a specific material change. Thus, while the projects themselves are different, their common baseline is the research to the reception of a material change.

After 2 successful years, C-re-aid is ready to grow and to expand. As an income generating model, the organization is establishing a social enterprise that is designing, developing and distributing quality 

handmade furniture made from local and recycled materials. Together with a growing team of designers, craftsmen and young trainees you will work on the realization of an income generating model for C-re-aid.

Personal Specification:
• Above 26 years old.
• University graduate. 
• Strong interest in Social Sciences and Development work
• Confident/fluency in spoken and written English.
• Excellent written, and oral communication skills, and able to communicate to a variety of audiences.
• Experienced internet skills and online research.
• Good research skills via alternate forms.
• Ability to form partnerships 
• Computer literate.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• High motivation, with the ability to be pro-active.
• Work well with others and independently.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage own workload and meet deadlines.
• Willingness to work with limited resources.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Willingness to learn on the job.
• Flexible.

Job description:
• Merchandises account activities.
• Develops/updates new sales literature.
• Provides direct marketing to new business prospects.
• Develops relationships with agency search consultants.
• Builds relationships between agency and key prospects.
• Creates opportunities to pitch new accounts.
• Understands the business and marketing challenges of key prospects.
• Develops sales strategies for key prospects.
• Researches all prospects.
• Organizes, directs and makes physical arrangements for presentations.
• Targets marketers with specific parameters.


• Promotes high-impact, highly integrated advertising, Web development, Specialized Marketing in-channel selling systems and results-oriented public relations programs to our geographic area.


More information can be found on the website http://www.c-re-aid.org. Applications should be sent before the 20th of May 2015. Please send your resume with a cover letter to freya@c-re-aid.org and mireille@c-re-aid.org with a subject line of "Director of Business Development".