The Candidate Sales Executive engages candidates to help them find work in UK schools, assesses their quality, and maintains positive relationships to increase placements. The role involves collaboration with sales and technology teams to enhance candidate onboarding efficiency.
Candidates Sales Executive
Location: Office based in Claremont, Cape Town
Working hours are expected to be:
9AM - 6PM UK time. (11AM - 8PM SA time in SA summer, 10AM - 7PM SA time in SA winter)
Shorter days during some of August.
Salary: 20,000 - 35,000 Rand per month based on experience and performance.
Different sales incentives run throughout the year to allow you to earn up 60,000 Rand extra per annum.
Contract type: Full time, Temp to perm, permanent contract starting after 6 month probationary period.
About Zen Educate:
Zen is revolutionising education. Schools spend over £2bn a year on agency staff, and £600m of that goes straight into the pockets of recruitment agencies. That’s why we’ve built an alternative.
Our online platform gives schools instant access to hundreds of profiles of fully vetted teachers and support staff. Since launching in 2017, we’ve saved schools over £30m – money that goes straight back into school budgets and increases teachers’ pay.
The opportunity
This is your chance to join a tech startup in hypergrowth. We’re passionate about professional development, and we’ll work to maximise your personal and career growth. We're looking for enthusiastic, mission-driven people who fit our values and are passionate about what we do.
We have recently raised our Series B funding of $37mil, the largest round in European EdTech this year. This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference and be part of a high growth start-up that is expanding rapidly in the UK and US markets!
Who we are looking for:
● Someone passionate and motivated, who loves being a part of a close team
● Proven track record of hitting sales targets
● Confident communicator able to work closely with a sales team and various other stakeholders
● Growth mindset — dedicated to growing your skills as a professional
● Passion for companies that have a positive social impact and the education sector
● Strong bias to action
● Strong verbal and written communication skills to engage educators
● Care and empathy for the education sector and the challenges of working in it
What you'll be doing:
● Calling candidates (Teachers, Teaching Assistants and other roles) to engage them with the Zen educate platform and help them find work in UK schools as quickly as possible.
● Assessing educator quality based on their communication, experience and transferable skills
● Follow up inbound and outbound leads and drive urgency in finding work through Zen Educate while providing all necessary documentation for compliance purposes.
● Interact with candidates in a friendly and helpful manner and maintain positive relationships to keep them on board with us and create a great candidate experience
● Increase the number of talented candidates on our platform and help place them in roles by matching their skills to the schools’ requirements
● Work collaboratively across the business with the sales and technology teams to help improve efficiency in providing value to candidates.
● Leveraging technology and tools within our app to provide efficient and unique to the industry candidate onboarding
Experience & Qualifications Required:
● At least 2 years of sales or client facing experience
OR
● Experience working in or with the UK education sector
What's in it for you?
● Work that you want to talk about
● Competitive salary
● 25 days of holiday in line with UK education term dates, plus UK bank holidays.
● Fun-loving, tight-knit team solving a problem that makes a difference
Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds, and different experiences and perspectives - just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive atmosphere with a culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work.
We value and respect all differences in all people (seen and unseen). We believe in an environment with equal access to career development opportunities and actively encourage applications from BAME candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during your interview process with us, please do let us know.
Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback on initial submissions.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
