About the Department

The City of Albany provides innovative telecom and other utility services. The purpose of this classification is to generate new leads, provide administrative and customer support, handle daily tasks like data entry and scheduling, create reports on account activity, and draft correspondence. Key responsibilities include maintaining customer databases, preparing documents and reports, assisting with promotional materials, and serving as a point of contact for customers. This position often serves as a foundation for building customer relationships.

Distinguishing Characteristics: This classification handles and generates new account leads by reaching out to and engaging with prospective customers, ensuring effective and regular communication, and properly managing customer accounts.

Position Duties

The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.

Identify and close new opportunities by cold calling, premise visits, and customer appointments; prepare, file, and retrieve sales documents, such as contracts and proposals.

Provides administrative support to office staff for special projects, events, and daily operations as needed to ensure smooth office functioning.

Collaborate with internal and external team members and partners to present and develop presentations, promotional ideas, and materials for utility services and various projects to keep the community informed and updated.

Manage customer relationships; serve as a liaison between customers, answering questions and relaying feedback. Maintain and update customer account databases.

Conduct market and competitive research, and use canvassing or surveys as needed to assess project feasibility.

Strong organizational, time management, writing, and verbal communication skills are essential.

Proficiency with computer skills, especially Microsoft Office Suite, is necessary.

Effective use of technology for program development, distribution, tracking, and reporting.

Create reports on leads, account performance, etc.

Operates a city vehicle and standard office equipment in the execution of duties.

Provides office assistance to complete tasks.

Continually learn and develop knowledge of new technologies and selling points.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Typical requirements

A bachelor's degree in a related field, such as business administration, is often preferred.

Experience in marketing, account management, office administrator, or sales is generally a plus.

A proactive, detail-oriented, and customer-focused attitude is highly valued.

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Management or a related field is preferred. Additionally, three (3) years or more years of progressively responsible experience and/or training in marketing, office administration, management, or sales; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific Licenses or Certifications Required:

Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver’s license.

Other Qualifications

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

Human Interaction: Requires the ability to apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

ADA Compliance:

Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds)

Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, temperature/noise extremes, or traffic hazards.

The City of Albany, GA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Town will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

Benefits

Employer Paid: Vacation Pay, Sick Pay, Holiday Pay, Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Defined Benefit Retirement Plan

Optional:Vision Insurance, Short Term Disability Insurance, Long Term Disability Insurance, 457(b) Plan

Whole Life Insurance, Critical illness Insurance, Discounted YMCA Membership

Agency Information

Employer: City of Albany, Georgia
Address: 222 Pine Avenue

Suite 360

Albany, Georgia, 31701
Phone: 229-302-1541
Website: http://www.albanyga.gov