First World Communities Group Latest Job Vacancy: Recruitment for Marketing Officers

THE ORGANIZATION:

First World Communities Group is a leading real estate organisation, focused on providing affordable housing for low and medium income households across Nigeria and West Africa, in attractive and safe communities, as a contribution to wealth creation to wealth creation and socio-economic development. In addition to its coordination unit, the group has Project Services, Construction and Facility Management companies.

Our development pipeline has over 12,000 residential and commercial properties scheduled for delivery in the next 5 years. To achieve this commitment, the Company requires hard working hands-on professionals to fill these positions:

POST TITLE:   Marketing Officer

OVERALL ROLE PURPOSE:

To develop innovative strategies  for creating  a subscription base of over 2000 home buying members in the first year and aim to increase subscription by al least 50% annually.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop and Maintain a computerized customer and prospect database,
• Develop markets for our products,
• Develop creative strategies to increase our client through our unique home ownership subscription,
• Respond to and follow up sales enquiries by telephone, and personal visits,
• Monitor and report on activities and provide relevant management information,
• Carry out market research and customer surveys,
• Liaise and attend meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business and organisational development.

REQUIRED SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

• Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on high quality and business profit,
• Natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance. Mature, credible, and comfortable in dealing with senior big company executives,
• Reliable and determined. Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view,
• Well presented and businesslike,
• Must be adept in use of MS Office particularly Excel and Word, and ideally Access or similar database to basic level, Internet and email.
• Must be an excellent face-to-face and telephone communicator.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION & COMPETENCIES:

• A degree in Social Sciences or liberal arts,
• Minimum 3-5 years relevant work experience, experience in the real estate industry will be an advantage.

MODE OF APPLICATION & APPLICATION DEADLINE:

Further information about the above advertised positions is available on www.firstworld-communities.com/careers.htm

Interested applicants should complete bio-data form on- line, prior to submitting written applications with detailed CV in Microsoft Word format to careers@firstworld-communities.com and copied to the following address: fwc.humanresources@gmail.com

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Application Deadline for all application is 31st August 2011.