Face the Future aims to strengthen its marketing and sales efforts primarily in commercialising its core product: quality forest carbon offsets into the voluntary carbon market. Face the Future seeks a highly motivated intern to join our marketing and sales team for a period of 6 months with a possibility earning an entry-level position upon successful completion. The application deadline is April 10th, 2013 and the internship is expected to begin in early May, 2013.
Please submit applications to: justin.whalen@face-thefuture.com
Roles and responsibilities
Marketing / Communications
- Create, manage and organize regular marketing content (flyers, sales emails, targeted newsletters etc..)
Market research
- Frequent carbon market research, supply and demand
Sales
- Processing and finalizing sales orders
- Reach out to new prospective clients
- Represent Face the Future at European carbon market related conferences and events
Requirements
The candidate must:
- Have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in marketing/communications and/or environmental sciences
- Be familiar with concepts of climate change, forest ecosystems services and carbon markets
- Be able to quickly learn and communicate on our product offerings
- Be able to easily manage relationships and provide outstanding customer support
- Have experinces with mail out services like Mail Chimp etc.. knowledge on graphic design for web and
- print and video
- Have at least 1 (preferably 2) years work experience in a marketing and/or sales role, preferably within an
- NGO or environmental firm
- Fluent in written/spoken English and Dutch, fluency in written and spoken French and/or German an
- advantage
- Must be a citizen of the EU and financially secure enough to live in or near Amsterdam during the
- duration of the internship
