Jobs in College Park, MD

About the role

The Ticketing & Fundraising Specialist is primarily responsible for driving revenue and hitting sales goals around the season, group, premium ticket, donation, and hospitality packages for Maryland Athletics. This person should be a self-motivated and positive professional. This position is responsible for engaging, servicing and soliciting existing Maryland Athletics donors and ticket holders, while also identifying new prospective donors. This position will be focused on building relationships, servicing all Maryland supporters, driving revenue for Maryland Athletics, and being a positive steward and representative of Legends and the University of Maryland. The Ticketing & Fundraising Specialist will work under the direction and guidance of the Director, Sales, Service, & Retention.

What you'll bring

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty with energy and enthusiasm.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Excellent professional verbal and written communication skills
• Maintain a professional image and positive attitude
• Set and conduct in stadium, arena and out of the office sales appointments.
• Effectively use Salesforce CRM to maintain accurate records of all client and prospect interactions.
• Reach and exceed individual and team sales revenue goals.
• Assist with managing and stewarding existing season ticket members and donors
• Prospect and cultivate new sales leads through creative lead generation methods, as well as follow up on leads provided by partner organization
• Ability to handle heavy volume of outbound and inbound phone calls and emails
• Candidate should possess excellent time management and organizational skills
• Candidate should possess an optimistic team-first attitude, as well as a competitive desire to be the best