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Date Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
AGOVA JOB DESCRIPTION:
SALES AND MARKETING ASSISTANT
Agova (formerly Business Development Services Africa)
Location : Lusaka, Zambia
Contract Length: 2 years
Remuneration : ZMW 5,999.00 per month gross (incl. gratuity)
Background:
Agova is a consultancy service and its mission is to make shared value the new way of
doing business. Shared value refers to ‘a management strategy in which companies find
business opportunities in social, environmental, or economic problems’. Since 2011,
Agova has been delivering management and technical advice to actors in the private
sector in Zambia to further the expansion of business models and norms that increase
economic, social and environmental prosperity. Our mandate is to leverage capital, data
and innovative ideas to develop a sustainable form of poverty reduction; we focus on
creating win-win business models within our client organizations such that commercial
and competitive mandates can be met while improving the livelihoods of an
organization’s customer and supplier segments, who are generally the urban and rural
poor and emergent agropreneurs.
This role will act as a supportive function to the Director of Business Development in all
or most BD activities for Agova, with the intention to see you advance and grow into
increased responsibilities over time. Such increased responsibilities may include taking
on more potential client meetings with more high profile potential clients, representing
Agova at numerous networking events and conferences, expanding Agova’s
communications and marketing efforts and maintaining relationships with some of
Agova’s current and past clients. .

Job Description:
This role will be reporting to the Director of Business Development.
Tasks could include (but are not limited to):
• Conduct client recruitment lead generation activities for corporate, NGO and
• SME clients including potential client research, client outreach via marketing
• emails and cold calls, setting up and coordination of meetings, maintaining client
• database, supporting potential client follow ups and attending some events;
• Writing project proposals and tenders for potential client opportunities;
• Attending, co-leading and taking minutes in some informational meetings and
• presentations/pitches with potential clients; lead meetings with smaller potential
• clients (when ready);
• Support with client retention activities such as communication with consultants on
• current projects to gather relevant information to encourage retention, support
• with consultant trainings to promote retention, etc.
• Carry out regular communications activities to market Agova’s corporate
• consulting and training courses, SME consulting services and SME co-working
• space to corporate companies, NGOs, SMEs and funders in Zambia and
• internationally. Activities include website and social media content updates and
• development, developing new communications materials and concepts to further
• promote Agova and its services, managing inventory of current communications
• materials, managing relationships with any sub-contractors, any other duties as
• required, etc.
• As deemed necessary, additional duties may involve business development
• process improvement, supporting the Agova team with grant proposal writing for
• its SME services, and supporting the coordination, customer service and
• monitoring of Agova’s pilot products and services such as grant writing, client
• courses, specialist services, etc.

Required Skills:
• A relevant four-year Bachelor’s degree (ideally a Master’s Degree);
• One to three years of relevant work experience, in business development,
• marketing and/or sales;
• Interest in Shared Value (businesses solving social/environmental challenges by
• reshaping their business strategy);
• Experience in identifying and understanding customers/clients’ challenges and
• needs in the market and a determination to find market-based solutions;
• Thrives working within strict timelines and in ‘high-pressure’ environments and
• demonstrates excellent time management skills;
• Strong communication skills (both oral and written) required;
• Has demonstrated ability to take initiative and take leadership in several areas of
• his/her department;
• Driven, ambitious and eager to learn;
• Demonstrates a positive and resilient attitude towards challenges;
• Experience in client-facing roles, interacting with senior and executive levels of
• staff is desired;
• Enjoys engaging with a host of different people and strong potential to develop
• business relationships and generate new client opportunities ;
• Ability to work independently and ability to work as a team player; and
• High-level of computer literacy with a solid command of Microsoft Office suite.

Job Qualifications: Not Specified

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Agova Offers:
A manager to support the person in their day to day work;
A coach to support long-term career path;
A competitive salary;
Communication and transport support;
Health Insurance;
Professional development support;
A comprehensive training program; and
If you are interested in this position, please fill in the questionnaire found
here. As well as send in by email the following
3 documents only:
Your professional CV (maximum 2 pages in length);
Your cover letter; and
A copy of your degree certificate.
To admin@agovasv.com with the subject line ‘Agova Sales and Marketing Assistant’.
Please address email and documents to Ms. Muyangana and submit by evening July 7th
2019.
Please note: applications that do not follow the above instructions will not be considered.
And only those who are offered an interview will be notified.

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