Corporate is looking for a Full Time Corporate Sales Associate worker.

Primary Purpose:

Collaborates with the National Sales Director to support and grow national sales initiatives by maintaining existing client relationships and identifying new business opportunities. This role is responsible for managing and expanding the client base across CTNi, the UK Stream, and On Demand platforms.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• A minimum of 3 years in media sales or advertising sales is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to process negative feedback and remain professional.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

Education Requirements:

• Minimum: Bachelors’ degree
• Preferred: Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or related field.

Other:

• Must be a born again Christian and attend a Bible believing church.
• Be a team player with strong interpersonal skills and patience.
• Some travel may be required to events, conferences, or conventions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1.   An excellent working knowledge of CTN. This includes the history of the network, as well as knowledge of programmers and company procedures.

2.   Investigate local churches, ministries and non-profits and make phone calls, send out letters/postcards, and send emails to build a relationship with the local community. The INITIAL focus of these connections is to let them know we are in the community and are here to support them and NOT to get them on 1V at first.

3.   Attend pastor’s prayer groups, breakfasts’, Christian business meetings to make connections and learn the needs of the community. Always be looking for ways that your local station can participate in meeting the needs of your community.

4.   Raising funds to support your station. This can be from airtime sales, and donations made to the station. Work with Network Executive Producer to create spots to play on air and online to promote the station and vision of CTN consistently through the year is important as well as regular online promotion to build a relationship with your audience.

5.   Building viewership for the station through promotional tables at churches or events, media trades with other media outlets (ex. Christian radio) and a targeted social media plan.

6.   Send programming changes when necessary to assigned list builder at WCLF.

7.   Building your local mailing list/email list/social media connections and then at least quarterly giving testimonies and sharing vision for your station with those lists.

8.   Finding volunteers to help at your station. These people can be found through the churches/pastors that you connect with and a great way for people to feel like they have buy-in at your station and for you to get things done.

9.   Build and maintain relationships with your local programmers.

10. Oversee that your website page stays fresh and accurate.

11. Always be looking for ways to increase cable, satellite and online coverage within your market area.

12. Filing quarterly and certain yearly FCC reports for your station.

13. Fulfilling or overseeing certain administrative duties such as approving time cards for your staff, performing employee evaluations, manager’s reports, expense reports, keeping media kits up to date, reviewing monthly airtime discrepancy reports to make sure they are accurate, fill out contract requests for new and renewing programmers, production agreements, reviewing monthly financial reports to make sure things are accurate and know where you are in your financial business dealings, etc.

14. Oversee that your programming stays accurate and is airing what will connect with your viewers. Oversee that your promos are rotated appropriately, airing accurate information, stay fresh and that you are airing promos for your programmers.

15. Must attend regular manager zoom meetings with the Director of Station Managers.

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