Company: WorldStrides Location: Seattle, WA 98101 Status: Full Time, Employee Job Category: Sales/Retail/Business Development  10.11735,10.11913,10.11989 Industry: Travel, Transportation and Tourism;Telecommunications Services;Education Occupations: Business Development/New Accounts;General/Other: Sales/Business Development;Telesales Industry: Travel, Transportation and Tourism;Telecommunications Services;Education

A Company You Can Trust

WorldStrides is the largest and most trusted student educational travel company in the country. Committed to enriching students’ lives by enhancing classroom instruction, our education-study programs range from middle school students to post-graduate International programs since its inception in 1967. As many as 250,000 students in a given year have traveled with WorldStrides to destinations throughout the United States and the world. WorldStrides is the only company of its kind to be a supplemental education provider.

WorldStrides Mission: Enriching Students’ Lives Through Experiential Travel

Are you a hard worker that has a passion for education and travel? Do you like building relationships with educators? Do you love to be in charge of your own income?

If so, WorldStrides is the place for you.  We are searching for candidates that:

·        Are personable, goal oriented, and enjoy relationship-building

·        Provide high energy to a team-based work environment

·        Love kids

·        Love to travel

WorldStrides is the largest and most trusted educational student travel company in the country, providing a variety of educational travel programs to more than two million elementary, middle, and high school students since its inception in 1967.  We are also an accredited school so students can gain high school credit by traveling with us, and teachers can gain professional certification credits by traveling with us. With offices all over the country, our staff consists of over 350 professionals and former educators that work together to bring the classroom to life.  We offer an excellent benefits & compensation package, a great working environment, and employee perks such as discounted employee travel.  WorldStrides provides an excellent training program and growth opportunity. This is an opportunity that cannot by passed up!

We are hiring Educational Travel Specialists for our Bellevue, WA office. Educational Travel Specialists generate new accounts in the student educational travel industry by developing relationships with educators and promoting our travel programs.  We provide a list of contacts and a proven sales process.  First year annual compensation potential is in the mid 40K's and each year going forward around 60K . There is also no cap on commission. We offer the ability to personally experience educational travel programs plus discount travel opportunities.
    

Qualifications

Success is contingent on candidates who:

·        Are highly self motivated self starters

·        Have a strong work ethic

·        Possess excellent communication skills

·        Are passionate about what we do

·        Previous education and sales experience is very helpful

To apply for position, please copy and paste the following URL into your web browser http://tbe.taleo.net/NA7/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=WORLDSTRIDES&cws=1&rid=62

OR visit our jobs page at www.worldstrides.org/jobs