Job Description

As an Event Coordinator focused on assisting customers with their scheduled Book Fair fundraiser, you will play a crucial role in promoting reading and childhood literacy, assisting  schools in planning and achieving their fundraising event goals, and interacting with and delighting customers.  This position requires a passion to promote childhood literacy, strong territory management skills along with high motivation levels, as well as a collaborative spirit and an upbeat and fun outlook.  The Event Coordinator is responsible for individual monthly, seasonal, and annual goals. The role will work within the identified capacity to rebook the appropriate events in the appropriate weeks, partnering with customers to explore revenue-generating activities and liaising as the book fair expert for customers conducting an onsite fair. We’re excited to be growing the business and the team, and with growth comes opportunities for advancement, not to mention you get to work with really great people.

Qualifications

YOU’RE GOOD AT:

• Developing a territory plan and executing it
• Achieving established goals
• Verbal and written communication
• Collaborating with a team 
• Competitive intelligence

YOU WILL NEED:

• 3+ years of account/territory management experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience in assisting customers

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WILL LOOK LIKE: 

We love to start our day with a daily team check in, let’s celebrate our successes and work through any challenges.  Then we get down to the business of partnering with customers conducting onsite book fairs, ensuring customer satisfaction is always top of mind which enables customer retention. We wrap-up the same way we started, celebrating our successes, sharing customer feedback and challenges on the day.  Together we will work to make our team and customer experience great.

Additional Information

We seek people with drive and a touch of alchemy. Even if your experience isn’t a precise match for the role, we encourage you to apply. And if your career has taken you to some spectacular —or spectacularly strange—places, we love a good story.

At Literati, we value the power of reading for all: anyone who dreams, anyone who wonders, anyone of any age, from any background. We are dedicated to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness that sees, reflects, welcomes, and celebrates the innovation and talent of a diverse array of people.