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Sales Co-ordinator (part-time)

We’re looking for an energetic part-time Sales Co-ordinator with excellent communications and organisational skills, to join our friendly Sales and Marketing Team.  Would you like to to be part of the Global Action family, inspiring tomorrow’s Global Citizens to lead positive global change? Think this is the job for you? Then read on…

• Location: Hybrid working from home and from our Cotswolds office
• Part-time, 3 days a week, term-time only
• Salary: £24-26k per annum pro rata
• Start date: 19 January 2026

Who are we?

After life-changing experiences working for the United Nations and International Red Cross overseas, Mark and Katharine set up Global Action to provide outstanding overseas trips for UK school students. Each delivers a unique Global Learning programme, empowering students to affect positive global change. We are now the UK’s leading provider of high-quality Global Learning programmes.

We engage young people in learning about poverty reduction, environmental issues and social justice through educational trips to: Nepal, the Indian Himalayas, India Mumbai, Malaysian Borneo, Zanzibar Island, Costa Rica, Greece, and Switzerland.

Global Action is the only UK school trips company whose Directors have worked overseas for the UN at senior management level. We are a young, dynamic company based in Cirencester.

The Sales Co-ordinator Role

Reporting to the Sales Director, you will help co-ordinate sales and marketing tasks alongside the Schools Engagement Manager and Customer Operations Manager. You will be a ‘people-person’ whose effective marketing and sales ability will ensure recruitment and retention of student teams. Your responsibilities will include:

• Editing and sending pre-sales and post-sales information to teachers, to ensure the highest engagement per team
• Liaising with schools, arranging telephone calls with School Leaders for Sales Director and Managing Director
• Supporting the Customer Operations Manager on managing the bookings reporting system
• Database management for email marketing campaigns
• Supporting social media posting and retention mailers in co-ordination with the Schools Engagement Manager

Initial training in company systems will be provided, but it is essential that you are able to work unsupervised and under your own initiative, to meet tight deadlines.

Attributes, Skills and Experience

 Essential:

• Self-confident, with excellent skills in MS365,  administration, customer service and retaining customers
• Tenacious, highly motivated, and good communication skills. Polite and charming phone manner
• Excellent time management skills – ability to achieve targets and working to tight deadlines under own initiative without direct supervision, and with the highest attention to detail
• Team player, happy to work in a small business where everyone has to be ‘hands on’
• Passion for Global Learning and outdoor education
• Positive, flexible, and a proactive problem-solver

Desired:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in business administration and co-ordination roles
• Experience with online collaboration tools (e.g. Trello), WordPress, CRM management
• Experience in sales administration, and online marketing, both an advantage
• Office experience within a busy sales and marketing environment, or an expedition company

Work Hours:

3 days per week during term time only – salary range £24-26k pro rata, dependent on experience. The hours can be spread out over 3-4 days per week.

How to apply

Please send your CV, with a cover letter clarifying why you want to work with us, and how you meet the above criteria, to : sales@global-action.co.uk

Closing date: Midnight 5 December 2025

Interviews: Week commencing 8 December 2025

Start date:  Week commencing 19 January 2026

Please note we will only be responding to applicants who will be invited for interview.  Thank you.