Are you a self-driven entrepreneur with proven success in hitting goals?

Are you excited about being on a small team within a new industry and product?

Are you adaptable and excited by constant change?

The EF Gap Year Sales Team is looking for an individual to join their efforts in sharing the magic of a Gap Program . As a Business Development Representative, your mission is to oversee a sales pipeline and manage it effectively in partnership with the consultant team. Together, your goal is to mentor and inspire 18-22-year-olds and their families that are considering international gap and study abroad programs. Our students offer a wide spectrum of awareness about the benefits of gap and study abroad programs, which makes each conversation unique and exciting! The best part of the Business Development Role is that you will educate students on how these experiences fundamentally shape their lives and fit into their larger higher education journey.

The Business Development Representative position is a fantastic opportunity to flex your sales muscles, acquire new skills and techniques, work as a team, and have a massive impact on a growing product. The goal is to bring on a Business Development Representative with a path to a Gap Year Consultant role after year 1 pending success.

What You’ll Do:

• Initiate conversations with 18-22-year-olds to generate new business through high volume phone calls and strategic outreach
• Mange and qualify incoming new leads, with the goal of setting up a call between them and a Gap Consultant
• Be consistent, flexible, adaptable, and excited to sell a product that is constantly changing and truly alters students’ lives and futures
• Refine your sales techniques and support customers as well as consultants through email, phone, and online info sessions
• Collaborate and strategize with the Gap Consultant and Advisor team to ensure a seamless customer experience
• Drive special projects as they come up related to increasing overall team conversion

Requirements:

• You’re eager to start, or expand, your career in sales with a role that offers accountability and opportunity to grow
• You have a fierce competitive spirit balanced with a collaborative team-oriented approach
• You are a skilled communicator who can craft compelling, persuasive, and engaging messages, primarily via text and email
• You nail the details while moving quickly, never losing sight of the big picture
• You are excited to build and grow in a small, new product
• You are highly organized and excel at managing a large, diverse pipeline while staying on top of your tasks
• You have guided customers through challenging situations with your empathetic approach
• You can alter your strategy, routine, or tasks based on changing situations

Why you’ll love working here: Perks, Benefits, and more!

This is the most fun, high caliber place you’ll ever work. Ask any employee why they love EF (whether they’ve been here 10 minutes or 10 years) and they’ll probably tell you the same thing: it’s the people. When you work at EF, you join a purpose-driven, international and energetic community that thrives on continuous learning, fearless innovation and mutual support.

In addition, you can expect:

• Paid International Business Travel opportunities
• Eligibility for our Workplace Flexibility Program: our pilot hybrid work model with up to two days working from home per week
• Commitment to professional growth: robust monthly calendar of trainings and workshops
• Four weeks paid vacation your first year, ten paid holidays, and two floating holidays
• 25% company match on your 401(k) contributions
• Market-leading medical, dental and vision coverage, along with options for life and disability insurance, legal and pet insurance
• Dependent care, healthcare and commuter Flex Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Access to fertility care and family-building support
• Wellness benefits including onsite classes and a yearly fitness reimbursement
• Frequent social and learning events, including access to our employee-run “EFinity” groups
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Tenure-based sabbatical eligibility
• EF Product Discounts (discounts on travel, international language schools, childcare with our Au Pair product and more)
• Discounts at local venues and businesses
• Compensation - Base salary $50,000 plus bonus potential up to $15,000 in your first year

About EF Gap Year

At EF Gap Year we open the world to students in ways that help them gain a better understanding of other cultures and themselves. This is not an alternative to college. It’s about preparing young people to make the most of college - and in many ways, the rest of their lives. Our innovative experiential learning model helps students discover their goals, while equipping them with the confidence and skills to take on whatever comes next. When our travelers come back, their transformation is extraordinary and inspiring. Moments like these are why we come to work each day. Well, that, and the amazing location and incredible people we get to work with. If introducing young people to the wonders of the world - while expanding the horizons of your own career, sounds good to you then do what these students do: take a big step forward. Join us.

About EF

Some companies are in the Business of Technology.
Others are in the Business of Finance...Sports...Or Soft Drinks.
At EF, we’re in a different kind of business.
One that’s a little less tangible, and a lot more important.
We’re in the Business of Understanding.
Between people. Between cultures.

For over half a century we’ve been the leader in international educational programs and experiences designed to foster such understanding. Through Language, Cultural Exchange, Academic Studies, and Educational Travel, we create the kinds of immersive experiences that challenge biases, open minds, and pave the way for a more understanding world. You’ll find us working across 55 countries, with offices in some of the world’s greatest cities, filled with smart, driven people who push each other to be better every day. And yes, we have technology, we have finance, we even have sports with our own professional cycling team. But it’s what we do with it - Building greater understanding, breaking down barriers, and creating a better world...that makes all the difference.

At EF Education First, we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, EF has helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves.