Vacancy title:

Membership Officer

Type: Intern

Job at: Northwestern Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Deadline of this Job:

November 16,2022

Duty Station: Within Zambia, Solwezi, Northwestern Province

JOB DETAILS:

Northwestern Chamber of commerce and Industry is an umbrella organization that represents the Business community across all sectors of the economy. The chamber seeks the services of a membership officer on a minimum of a 3-month contract. The successful candidate will be accountable to the administration officer and will be responsible for the overall performance of the Chamber’s membership activities.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Prepares sectional programmes aimed at activities designed to maintain current membership and attract more members as well as retain existing members through various strategies with the approval of the Supervisor.

2. Undertakes regular membership recruitment drives from business houses and other related organisations through employing various initiatives such as visitations, workshops, seminars, meetings, dinner, email, etc, with the aid of other technical staff as necessary.

3. Help in conducting needs assessments for the members and develop initiatives to fill in capacity gaps.

4. Provides support to the Membership Committee by undertaking secretarial duties and carrying out given tasks.

5. Help in membership registration with the supervision of the administration officer.

6. Facilitate membership categorization based on NWCCI database and suggest specific interventions to support members.

7. Conduct periodic need assessments.

8. Help in coordinating of events.

9. Help in running day to day activities of secretariat and;

10. Conduct any tasks as requested by the supervisors.

11. Development of business content.

12. Updating of content on the chamber website and Facebook page.

Job Qualifications:

1. Must possess a Degree in Management Studies, public administration, Marketing, economics, development studies or any other related discipline.

2. Extensive negotiating skills. Awareness of lobbying strategies is a plus.

3. Excellent analytical, leadership, communications and interpersonal skills and business skills

4. The candidate must be fluent in both spoken and written English.

5. The candidate must have skills in writing position papers, speeches, and research projects.

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified