Core Function

Securing gigs for client’s of kensambury.com in Trinidad, Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada and other territories by maintaining relationships with the right people: promoters, clubs, Soca artiste, etc. <Click for a Brief Background of what kensambury.com is> 

Responsibilities

• Develop contacts with individuals and organizations, and apply effective strategies and techniques to ensure their clients’ success.
• Keep informed of industry trends and deals.
• Collect fees, commissions, or other payments, according to contract terms.
• Arrange and attend meetings concerning issues involving the artiste’s clients and sponsors.
• Confer with Ken to develop strategies for the client, and to explain actions taken on the artiste’s behalf.
• Negotiate with party promoters, media managers and other persons regarding the artiste’s contractual rights and obligations.
• Schedule promotional or performance engagements for kensambury.com.
• Manage business and financial affairs for kensambury.com, such as arranging travel and lodging, selling tickets, and directing marketing and advertising activities.
• Obtain information about or otherwise ensure that Ken’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 who accompany Ken on gigs
• Basic Photography – Taking pictures using a cell phone / or GoPro & updating 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, 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.

Office Hours:

6-8 Hours per week.

Summary:

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

To Apply (Deadline 6pm April 1st, 2019):

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