Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to align and equip leaders to use the power of employers in business and the public sector to prevent human trafficking. BEST aims to build the capacity of employers to become socially responsible and sustainable on the issue of human trafficking. Based in Seattle, BEST works with employers across the U.S.. Our staff work together in person on Tuesdays at BESTs office in Seattle, and remotely with close coordination online all other weekdays. For more information about the organizations history and impact, please see ourorganizational overview.

BEST is seeking an Outreach and Corporate Relations Professional. The primary responsibility of this position is to promote BESTs consultation and training services and resources via direct outreach to employers to increase the number of employers countering human trafficking, and the range of ways each employer acts against human trafficking. The position will also help provide BESTs consultation and training services to employers and their staff, both live online and in person at workplaces. The Outreach & Corporate Relations Professional will develop and implement outreach strategies that result in meaningful engagement with employers, initiate and sustain strategic relationships, develop and employ relational sales techniques consistent with BESTs mission and values, and provide a variety of presentations to employers with the aim of eliciting commitments to act against human trafficking. The ideal candidate is highly relational, a self-starter, eager to build new networks, excellent at follow-through, and effective in persuasive communication.

Responsibilities

• Identify and initiate opportunities for BEST with employers that generate earned revenue and advance BESTs mission.
• Initiate outreach to potential employer clients regarding how human trafficking impacts their industry and BESTs services and resources.
• Respond to employer inquiries for training or consulting, assess the employers needs, write proposals that correspond to their needs, negotiate contracts, and steward the relationships.
• Recruit new employers to implement best practices including training their staff, and persuade and equip current employer clients to sustain and increase their efforts to counter human trafficking.
• Help facilitate Human Trafficking Prevention Strategy Development workshops for executives.
• Provide consultation to employers and training for employees both online and in person at workplaces.
• Represent BEST at industry conferences around the United States.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

General Qualifications

• Unequivocal commitment to the BEST mission, and vision to help create a world in which no one is traffickeda world in which every person has the right to be free from commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor.
• Bac…