Booking Assistant Needed

Posted on January 6, 2023

Core Function

Maintaining the gigs of kensambury.com & some of our artiste affiliates by writing instructions for creatives and overseeing the delivery of their work.   <Click for a Brief Background of what kensambury.com is> 

Responsibilities

  • Send packages with our client’s services and send these to promoters.
  • Attend events with client’s if necessary.
  • Follow up to collect fees, commissions, or other payments, according to contract terms.
  • Follow up on weekly presentations for the team and the deliverables of the creatives
  • Double check and negotiate with party promoters, media managers and other persons regarding the artiste’s contractual rights and obligations.
  • Obtain information about or otherwise ensure that the client’s working conditions and accommodations meet the required specifications.
  • Simple Clerical Duties – Develop proposals, quotes, invoices and presentations.
  • Prepare periodic accounting statements for kensambury.com
  • Managing the assistants (if any) who accompany client’s on gigs
  • Basic Photography – Taking pictures using a cell phone & posting these (sometimes in real time) to the kensambury.com Social Media.

Skills & Requirements

  • Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Extroverted – Must love working with people and be energised by other people.
  • Effective communication – Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Persuasion – Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Negotiation – Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Time Management – Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
  • Complex Problem Solving & Critical Thinking – Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Active Learning & Listening – Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Sales and Marketing – Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • A Valid Passport & willing to travel.
  • Five CXC, CSEC or GCE passes including Math and English. A Bachelors Degree in Marketing, PR, Communications or International Relations will be an asset.

Work Styles

    • Initiative – Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
    • Persistence – Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
    • Attention to Detail – Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
    • Dependability – Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
    • Achievement/Effort – Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
    • Cooperation – Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
    • Adaptability/Flexibility – Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
    • Leadership – Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
    • Independence / Working from home – Job requires developing one’s own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
    • Social Orientation – Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
    • Self Control – Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
    • Innovation – Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Compensation:

A fixed percentage of all the bookings arranged.
Gas, Phone and Entertainment allowance paid separately.

Office Hours:

To be determined.

Summary:

Our objective is to allow the booking agent to connect our creatives with the opportunity to earn exponentially while driving business through well established relationships.

To Apply (Deadline 6pm Jan 10th, 2022):

Send your resume & 2 pictures of yourself (one face shot and one fully body) to ask@kensambury.com

If you know Ken Sambury personally, kindly use the above process to apply as opposed to messaging him about this job posting.

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