Sales Assistant Intern | Employer: | Positive Coaching Alliance | Location: | Mountain View, CA | | Job Status: | Internship | | Salary: | No Minimum | | Posted/Updated: | 5/14/2013 | | Job Category: | Sports Marketing and Sales
Sports Admin/Finance/Support
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Looking to get your foot in the door? Want to learn about the sports industry from an industry-leading non-profit organization? An Internship with Positive Coaching Alliance can provide experiences in many facets of the sports industry, especially sales, marketing and account management. See below about your opportunity to become a part of the PCA team.
About Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA)
Positive Coaching Alliance is a national nonprofit organization based in the Stanford University Department of Athletics with the mission to "transform youth sports so sports can transform youth." PCA provides training to coaches, parents, athletes and youth sports organization leaders on how to use the youth sports experience to teach young athletes positive character traits and "life lessons." In addition to the national office in Mountain View, CA, PCA has office throughout the country. More information about PCA is available at www.PositiveCoach.org
Partnership Development Responsibilities; Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
• Perform market research on youth sports
• Search internet for YSO’s, schools, and city/park & recreation departments
• Find quality leads at these organizations
• Input into the CRM (i.e. Salesforce)
• Send market outreach emails and make market outreach cold calls
• Send initial email: Goal is phone call with the PD
• Send follow up calls and make initial cold call: see above for Goal of outreach
• Assist with regional events/projects and assist in the development of grassroots marketing efforts
• Attending Conferences/Conventions
• Marketing/Promotional Partner events (i.e. professional sports team partner events)
• Honoring Coach or Athlete events (i.e. Double-Goal Coaches of the year)
• Develop Social Media outreach plan
• Account Management support: Attend PCA workshops when convenient. At these workshops you will be there to assist the PCA trainer and answer questions about PCA. Check in with the Partner contact, and look to generate feedback on the workshop for potential follow up by the PD.
• Assist with database management and ongoing reports (i.e. weekly reports)
• Any additional projects as they become relative or necessary
• Foster high level of morale & commitment towards PCA
Requirements:
• Intern will be required to meet one time every week for a progress report
• Internship hours will be logged at your convenience and location
• Internship units will be awarded depending on hours worked (minimum of 10 hours/week)
Qualifications
• Passion for PCA mission and youth/high school sports
• Proven initiative/Self-Starter
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills and multi-tasking ability
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