Careers

If you are willing to drive sales of the company by building new clients, whether corporate, school or direct to home, like to travel and believe that the best teacher is travel and nature and persuade these clients to embark on a journey where they can use their holidays in a meaningful manner discovering and learning about themselves thereby building character, you are the person we are looking for. 
The job will include meeting clients and sharing the wonders of meaningful travel with a company of experts, convincing them to buy into our programmes and ensuring they return for more.

• Understand the camps market and propose programmes suitable to the needs to our target audience.
• Identifying leads and reaching out to them with our product portfolio
• Achieving sales targets set out for the year.
• Planning and executing city wise roll out plan to go pan India.
• Actively networking with organisations, clubs, groups to seek out new sales opportunities.
• Prepare and deliver appropriate presentations on our programs
• Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections
• Building a strong customer database for Trailblazers
• Developing and maintaining client relationship for Trailblazers campers
• Create frequent reviews and reports with sales, financial and competitor data
• Any other sales and marketing related activities for to generate leads and build the Trailblazers brand.
• Work as per strategy to achieve desired objective of the organisation.
• Should be in touch with sales developments, new trends, and strategies, and be able to think creatively and inspire your team to work hard and go the extra mile

• Graduate with MBA (preferably in Marketing)
• Prior experience in the outdoors (as a traveler/ participant/ trainer) is a must.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in sales in the education/ travel industry with proven track record is a must.
• Ability to lead, self-motivated with a results-driven approach, able to work independently without supervision.
• Extremely passionate about the outdoors.
• Fluency in English with powerful oral and written communication skills and the ability to influence.
• Good at networking and having a strong network of their own.
• Well-versed with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel and strong presentation skills..
• Fast learner with a passion for sales.
• Drive and fire to grow.
• Willingness to travel at short notice.

Trailblazers Foundation setup in 2014 & supported by Trailblazers Adventure Travel Pvt. Ltd, works in the sphere of education, research, capacity building in schools, environment, sustainable development, climate change, health, wildlife & promotion of fundamental science amongst our society

Trailblazers Foundation seeks applications for its multiple openings for candidates who are self motivated, who can take challenging assignments, expand their limits and capabilities and are keen to make a positive impact by their work. All positions are based out of Thane, a rapidly growing suburb-cum-district adjacent to Mumbai.

Broad responsibilities but not limited to mentioned below

• Build, lead and manage team of field officers for achieving organisational objectives.
• Build and maintain engagement Brief Job profile/Primary responsibilities with key stakeholders from the Government, corporate sector, start-ups, citizens, community members, peer organisations, educational institutions, etc. to ensure smooth implementation and sustainability of projects.

• Fund raising will be one of the primary responsibilities along with creating & writing business/funding proposals, implement/execute projects with end to end deliverables.
• Interact and co-ordinate with project stake holders and keep them updated on the project status.
• Responsible for project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
• Key role player in achieving the CSR objective of the client as well as the organisation.
• Design range of initiatives so as to create positive impact on the environment and local communities in line with the Foundation’s mandate or that of the CSR clients.
• Planning and creating budget of projects, lead the periodical monitoring processes, submit informative reports to document the same.

• Responsible for building the Foundation's community of volunteers thereby ensuring timely and perennial monetary and non-monetary support to the Foundation’s activities.
• Develop relationships with local media personnel at the intervention sites for cause-related media advocacy.
• Provide inputs to project proposals, managing online crowdsourcing campaigns and harnessing sponsorships.
• As the Foundation is the member of a larger corporate family, the Senior Manager will also be required to support the Foundation's parent company in key tasks as and when required.
• Assist the Foundation and the company's visibility and promotion activities by actively contributing to publicity campaigns and social media activities.
• Interact with media if and when required.
• Build, lead and manage team of field officers for achieving organisational objectives.
• Build and maintain engagement Brief Job profile/Primary responsibilities with key stakeholders from the Government, corporate sector, start-ups, citizens, community members, peer organisations, educational institutions, etc. to ensure smooth implementation and sustainability of projects.
• Fund raising will be one of the primary responsibilities along with creating & writing business/funding proposals, implement/execute projects with end to end deliverables.
• Interact and co-ordinate with project stake holders and keep them updated on the project status.
• Responsible for project monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
• Key role player in achieving the CSR objective of the client as well as the organisation.
• Design range of initiatives so as to create positive impact on the environment and local communities in line with the Foundation’s mandate or that of the CSR clients.
• Planning and creating budget of projects, lead the periodical monitoring processes, submit informative reports to document the same.
• Responsible for building the Foundation's community of volunteers thereby ensuring timely and perennial monetary and non-monetary support to the Foundation’s activities.
• Develop relationships with local media personnel at the intervention sites for cause-related media advocacy.
• Provide inputs to project proposals, managing online crowdsourcing campaigns and harnessing sponsorships.
• As the Foundation is the member of a larger corporate family, the Senior Manager will also be required to support the Foundation's parent company in key tasks as and when required.
• Assist the Foundation and the company's visibility and promotion activities by actively contributing to publicity campaigns and social media activities.
• Interact with media if and when required.

The candidate should have

• excellent project management, organisational skills.
• in-depth knowledge of social sector functioning.
• knowledge of NGO compliances such as government policies & scheme, taxation norms, statutory requirements etc.
• excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and local language and presentation skills.
• excellent public relation skill and have an ability to maintain public relation with government (central, state & local), project stake holders, sponsorers.
• excellent management, administrative & training skills.
• The candidate should be problem solver, can work under pressure and should be result oriented. He or she should be able to travel at short notice at project sites and adopt to the Foundation credo and the organisation objective/plan.

Education:

• Master’s degree in relevant field with minimum 5 years of experience out of which should have 2 years of independent project management and execution experience in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Trailblazers Foundation setup in 2014 & supported by Trailblazers Adventure Travel Pvt. Ltd, works in the sphere of education, research, capacity building in schools, environment, sustainable development, climate change, health, wildlife & promotion of fundamental science amongst our society

Trailblazers Foundation seeks applications for its multiple openings for candidates who are self motivated, who can take challenging assignments, expand their limits and capabilities and are keen to make a positive impact by their work. All positions are based out of Thane, a rapidly growing suburb-cum-district adjacent to Mumbai. The positions are in the below verticals:

• Education
• Environment and Sustainable Development
• Health / Medical
• Rural / Urban Development
• Land Bank officer

If interested, please forward your detailed resume to contact@trailblazersfoundation.org.in or careers@trailblazersindia.com with a subject line - Application for Field Officer - <Vertical nam> by 15th September 2018. Kindly mention your current and expected salary, 2 professional references while applying.

Broad Responsibilites (not limited to)

• The Field Officer will be required to be on field, for implementing and coordinating a range of activities and initiatives designed to create a positive impact on the environment and local communities in line with the Foundation’s mandate or that of the CSR clients
• She/he will assist in the planning and budgeting of projects, lead the periodical monitoring processes at the field level; and submit informative reports to document the same
• She/he will build and maintain engagement with key stakeholders from the Government, corporate sector, start-ups, citizens, community members, peer organisations, educational institutions, etc. to ensure smooth implementation and sustainability of projects
• She/he will be responsible for building the Foundation's community of volunteers thereby ensuring timely and perennial monetary and non-monetary support to the Foundation’s activities
• She/he will develop relationships with local media personnel at the intervention sites for cause-related media advocacy
• She/he will also assist in fundraising by providing inputs to project proposals, managing online crowdsourcing campaigns and harnessing sponsorships
• As the Foundation is the member of a larger corporate family, the Field Officer will also be required to support the Foundation's parent company in key tasks as and when required
• She/he will assist the Foundation and the company's visibility and promotion activities by actively contributing to publicity campaigns and social media activities

If you have some or all of the following (the last three are strongly desirable):

• Understand the difference between the have's and the have not's
• Feel strongly about wanting to make a difference through the work you do
• Have skills you believe can be used to enable social and environmental welfare
• Enjoy meeting people and they enjoy meeting you too!
• Love the outdoors and find more joy being there, than behind a desk
• See challenges as opportunities
• Have volunteered / worked with urban/semi-urban/rural communities
• Have worked in social and environmental development projects in NGOs, CSR teams or the Government
• Are proficient in cause-linked advocacy
• Have experience in or knowledge about education, environment, public health projects
• Have organised events / drives / campaigns involving people mobilisation, multiple stakeholder engagement
• Are between 22 - 26 years old
• Have two - three years of relevant work experience
• Possess written and spoken proficiency in Marathi, Hindi and English