Account Executive - Higher Education

As National Fitness Campaign (NFC) expands across America, we are looking for talented consultative sales professionals with experience in the Education Sector to join our Partnership Development team. This position provides an opportunity to engage in meaningful, powerful, and impactful work as we redesign cities and schools to prioritize healthy living across America! Candidates who thrive in a fast-paced environment, have exceptional communication and consultative skills, experience working with large bureaucracies and organizations, and possess a passion for health and wellness are an excellent fit for the position.

About National Fitness Campaign:

National Fitness Campaign is a San Francisco-based wellness consulting firm that is dedicated to building health and happiness in cities across America. The NFC team is an interdisciplinary consulting group that builds partnerships with America’s largest health care sponsors, who support cities and schools that plan, fund, and build outdoor Fitness Courts in public spaces. The Campaign delivers an exciting and engaging menu of services bringing wellness opportunities to millions. Our mission is to build a Fitness Court® within a 10-minute bike ride of every American by 2030 to make World Class Fitness Free!

See our 3-minute video: https://nationalfitnesscampaign.com/watch

The first National Fitness Campaign in the 1980s reached over 4,000 communities. The new Campaign is now exploding across the country with our powerful wellness initiative, tested and developed over four years in San Francisco and at Stanford University. We are planning our 500th healthy community now, and by 2023, new digitally connected Fitness Courts will be in 1,000 cities and schools nationwide.

About the position:

In this role, you will succeed as a consultant who builds consensus and funding for the NFC program, by guiding local champions in schools through our proven partnership development process. The NFC program and services are built on and around our Fitness Court®, the World's Best Outdoor Gym, supported by the unique and exciting toolkit that is our National Fitness Campaign. As a Partnership Development Manager, you will learn and master the NFC partnership development process, consulting with high level leadership in municipalities and school systems across America to guide them through joining our campaign and winning funding approvals within their system.

Your work will include engagement with some of the most innovative cities and schools in America. Successful candidates will have a background working with municipalities, higher education, school districts and high schools, and/or large organizations and enterprise level solutions and services, identifying champions, building consensus, and engaging stakeholders to build funding and support for leading initiatives. Excellent incentives are provided in this role for you to succeed and grow as a member of our team, and to unleash your best efforts as we grow National Fitness Campaign, bringing healthy living to millions.

NFC operates remotely and candidates can be based anywhere in the continental United States.

You Will:

• Be part of an agile, innovative, growing team doing important and exciting work!
• Collaborate closely with the Director and members of the NFC team
• Learn and master the NFC partnership development process
• Own and optimize a high-volume calendar of development conversations and pipeline of candidates
• Work with great people!
• Build, manage, and grow key segments of our Campaign
• Maintain responsibility for developing new partners and confirming their participation in our campaign
• Lead initiatives to design, fund, and launch NFC in cities in your region

You Have:

• Proficiency in Salesforce, Slack, Google Suite, and Zoom
• Experience building champions, consensus and funding in government and industry
• Ability to learn quickly
• History of meeting and exceeding revenue targets
• 5+ years of successful consultative sales experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in selling to, or working with or in, major corporations, municipalities, or the education sector
• Experience in consultative sales building successful partnerships
• Interest to contribute to a mission that you can be proud of
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a related field
• A passion for healthy living
• Desire to thrive in a competitive, results-oriented environment