Position Requirements
A passionate, outstanding leader who thrives on the opportunity to advance Dolly’s mission to deliver more books to children!
Personality / Attitude
- Fully understand and respect their responsibility to represent Dolly Parton and The Dollywood Foundation. All actions and behaviours are an extension of Dolly and the Foundation, and as such, great care must be taken to preserve the image and integrity of both;
- Always present a positive and professional image, both personally and professionally;
- Genuinely friendly, passionate, energetic, cooperative, flexible, enthusiastic, patient, courteous, caring, and compassionate;
- Recognised as a positive influence on others;
- Works with integrity, ethics, and honesty;
- Contributes to building a positive team spirit, shares their expertise, and recognises the accomplishments of others;
- Willingness to learn best practices and adapt for future improvement;
- As a professional, follows through on commitments, accepts responsibility for own actions, approaches others in a tactful manner and reacts well under pressure.
Skills / Knowledge
- Demonstrates and uses excellent judgement and decision-making abilities throughout all job duties,
- Prioritises and plans work activities, uses time efficiently; disciplined to meet deadlines;
- Ability to focus on the daily details while managing the overall scope of the job responsibilities;
- Disciplined in meeting goals;
- Ability to manage and resolve difficult or emotional situations;
- Skilled in networking, building relationships, leadership, training, and negotiation;
- Excellent communicator via telephone, video conferencing, and in person;
- Exceptional verbal and written English language skills; patience in responsiveness to repetitive questions. Articulate, speaks and writes clearly and informatively; proofs work for spelling and grammar. Listens for knowledge and clarification;
- Skilled in delivering compelling presentations to a range of audiences;
- Responds promptly to requests for assistance. Responds well to questions;
- Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills;
- Works a varying schedule that may include out of office hours;
- Observes safety and security functions; reports potentially unsafe conditions; uses equipment and materials properly; requests assistance when necessary.
Education / Experience
- Significant experience in Business Development and/or Sales;
- Significant project management experience;
- Proven work experience in developing and negotiating successful partnerships;
- Client-facing customer service experience, with problem solving skills;
- Highly organised with attention to detail;
- Technologically and socially informed and connected;
- Considerable knowledge and expertise in working with Google Suite, Microsoft Word, Video Conferencing, PowerPoint, and Excel;
- Ability to work and manage workload from the home office or on the road.