CEO forum facilitator

Description 

Do you have sales, consulting, entrepreneurship and customer-facing experience, had your first taste of the working and startup world, and are ready for a transformative career shift into the dynamic world entrepreneurship, sales and CEO forums? If you're looking for a fast-paced environment where you’ll get to learn about entrepreneurship, the CEO role and building great companies and work closely with the leaders of top start-ups and fast growing companies. 

About Civitas 

We work with the top founders and CEOs of tech, services and product companies to help them grow their businesses and level up as leaders. We do this through building playbooks, CEO forums, digital community, and in person learning events. We are based in Sandton Johannesburg and have an environment focused on achievement, learning, autonomy, transparency and building a great team that works hard and has fun together.

About the role 

This role is an opportunity to transition into the world of entrepreneurship and CEO forum facilitation. You can leverage your sales and customer facing experience to become a CEO forum facilitator and learn how to sell to decision makers in the process meet and develop relationships with top founders and CEOs.

You’ll learn to facilitate CEO forums and learn best practice on starting and growing companies from zero to R1 billion in sales. You’ll get a chance to go through our CEO Playbook training and elite level programme to learn the CEO and founder role. In this role you will be responsible for sales and CEO forum management. Moreover, we offer a clear progression path, with the potential to move into a leadership role within two years. 

What you’ll be responsible for

• CEO forum management 
  • Manage the scheduling and logistics of CEO forums, both in-person and virtual.
  • Oversee forum discussions, ensuring high-quality interactions and engagement.
  • Build relationships with existing members, identifying their needs and opportunities for further value creation.
  • Continuously refine and improve your business knowledge and CEO forum facilitation skills 

• Sales & membership growth
  • Develop and execute sales strategies to attract new members
  • Pitch membership packages to CEOs and founders
  • Follow up with potential leads and close deals, meeting and exceeding sales targets.

• Customer success
  • Act as the point of contact for forum members, ensuring they are satisfied and feel supported.
  • Track member feedback and adjust forum offerings to ensure continuous value.
  • Assist in onboarding new members and guiding them through their first interactions in the network.

Requirements 

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you meet the following requirements: 

• University degree
• 1+ years of entrepreneurial experience 
• 1+ years in a customer-facing role (ideally something sales related) 
• 1+ years of work experience in sales, startup or consulting 
• Strong interest in sales, entrepreneurship and business knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and can effectively engage with CEOs and founders 
• Based in Johannesburg, or can easily relocate 
• South African Citizen 

Benefits 

• Performance incentives and uncapped commission structure 
• Laptop 
• 20 days leave per annum 
• Civitas CEO Playbook training academy 
• Employee career progression plan 
• Office weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual social events 
• Opportunities to build relationships with top CEOs and founders 

If you’re eager to learn and grow your entrepreneurship and sales knowledge with Civitas. Apply now to be part of a team that's at the forefront of helping CEOs and founders level up and achieve their growth goals.