Job Vacancy at East African Wild Life Society

EAWLS is therefore seeking to fill the position of Membership Development Officer (MDO) to help grow its membership by maximising the recruitment of new members and offer support to our Membership Officer in the retention of existing members.

As a successful Membership Development Officer, your primary responsibilities will include (though not limited to):

Job Responsibilities

• Achieve annually increasing membership recruitment
• Work closely with our Regional Representatives to identify opportunities and increase regional and international membership
• Be proactive and develop innovative ways of promoting the Society’s membership including pitching, events, campaigns, appeals, social media and visiting corporate
• Provide unmatched member service to potential prospects to ensure an excellent start to their member experience and seek feedback from current EAWLS members in order to improve their membership experience
• Analyse membership data and population segmentation information to ensure that recruitment effort is targeted in the right
• Represent the Society at events, activations, exhibitions and in personally recruiting new members.
• Assist the Membership Officer in the retention and follow-ups of members
• Support fundraising and marketing efforts of the Society through organizing of events and sales of
• Provide monthly reports of membership recruitment and application processing statistics in line with the
• Any other responsibilities as may be prescribed by your supervisor

Skills and Personal traits

• Must have strong work ethics, entrepreneurial spirit and aggressive in recruitment of individual and corporate members
• Be outgoing and can perform membership drives with minimal supervision
• Able to implement membership strategy and map members regionally in East Africa
• Skilled in making presentations and pitching for members
• Skilled in managing social media communications
• Energetic, enthusiastic, resilient and able to inspire people to action and become supporters
• Interested in the natural world

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations Management, International relations, communications or Marketing
• At least 3 years work experience in similar role or relationship building & management or membership-based organization or customer service
• Knowledge of environmental conservation will be an added advantage
• Demonstrate experience in prospecting, developing, and closing leads
• Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills
• Exceptional organisation skills and multi-tasking skills
• Fluency in English & computer literate