Employment Opportunities

Positions are located in our Itasca, Illinois headquarters unless specified otherwise. Contact our Human Resources department by e-mail at staffing@nsc.org to learn more about employment opportunities with the National Safety Council. The National Safety Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer. You may also mail or fax your resume with a cover letter to:

National Safety Council
1121 Spring Lake Drive
Itasca, IL 60143
(Fax) 630-285-0243


Director, DDC Business Development

Itasca, IL

Requirements:

  • 10 years of business development experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in business required, MBA desired.
  • Extensive background in business and/or Transportation/traffic safety.
  • Proven ability to achieve sales goals and objectives.
  • Demonstrated effective management skills required.
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience in budget management.

Responsibilities & Duties:

  • Organizes and directs the Defensive Driving Programs’ sales staff to achieve the department's new training center/sales objectives.
  • Seeks out and develops new national corporate accounts for the Defensive Driving Programs.
  • Advises staff of emerging trends, developments and policies creating opportunities in the transportation/traffic arena.
  • Participates in critical, long-term decisions that affect the growth of the Defensive Driving Programs’ product line.
  • Identifies new program and product line ideas.
  • Assists the Executive Director in maintaining direct contact with corporate officials.
  • Assists the Marketing Department in developing and implementing national and international marketing strategies to promote training programs.
  • Prepares contract bids for proposals for local, state, or federal government agencies and major corporations.
  • Represents the interest of the Defensive Driving Programs and National Safety Council before legislative committees, DMV's, AAMVA, and DOT's.
  • Directs Defensive Driving Programs’ activities at national conven¬tions, conferences, and workshops, etc.

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Senior International Business Manager

Itasca, IL

Requirements:

  • BA or MBA in international business.
  • 5 years international business experience.
  • Experience with international safety and health organizations.
  • Experience working with NAFTA safety and health issues.
  • Experience working with US Hispanic safety and health issues.
  • Speak/understand English and Spanish fluently

Responsibilities:

  • Negotiates specific terms of agreements with international network partners worldwide.
  • Manages the implementation of international network partner contract agreements.
  • Works through the customer service and product development offices, ensures that products and services promised are delivered, invoiced, and paid as agreed.
  • Serves as primary point of contact for North America, Latin America and the Caribbean international network partners, including developing and supporting the business relationship.
  • Manages NSC responses to issues and opportunities associated with Spanish-speaking populations, both domestic and international.
  • Develops and maintains relations with key organizations dealing with their safety and health issues; supports related business and advocacy activities of the NSC.
  • Represents the NSC at meetings and regarding safety and health matters related to Spanish-speaking populations in other countries.

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Circulation Planner & Analyst

Itasca, IL

Requirements:

  • 3 years in a list environment with basic business experience.
  • Experience negotiating directly with vendors to purchase lists.
  • Experience using Crystal, SQL, MS Excel, Access, Word and SPSS.
  • Experience using Data hygiene, List segmentation, Suppression and Merge/purge processing.
  • Ability to work in a team environment with multiple and changing assignments.
  • Ability to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for preparation and execution of circulation plans, both house file and prospecting selection.
  • Develop and recommend circulation plans to meet top and bottom line goals.
  • Ensure accurate implementation of mailings using proven techniques to identify the best customers to mail.
  • Identify marketing risks and opportunities by analyzing customer and prospect segment level performance and sales trends.
  • Work with external list providers to test, review results, summarize and provide future recommendations.
  • Responsible for the placement of all list orders.
  • Make recommendations to improve the quality of NSC customer information, including: data hygiene; de-duplication; and best practices across database records.
  • Track and maintain the list budget information.
  • Maintain and update documentation of all processing being run.

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Customer Relations Representative

Itasca, IL

Requirements:

  • High school graduate; college or business school preferred.
  • 2 years of customer service or telephone sales experience preferred.
  • Good listening skills and patience when dealing with customers and other departments.
  • Microsoft Office experience preferred.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Adaptability in fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy

Responsibilities:

  • Handles customer orders, inquiries, complaints, and requests by telephone, mail, fax, or e-communication.
  • Provides optimum customer service to build relationships to maintain and enhance existing business and to obtain new business.
  • Analyzes nature of customers’ requests/complaints and applies corporate policies and procedures to routine situations.
  • Solicits general customer needs through active listening; discusses features and benefits of programs.
  • Recognizes opportunities to solution-sell programs and successfully cross-sell and up-sell the major programs provided by the NSC.
  • Maintains general knowledge of NSC programs and learns new product information.
  • Updates and maintains various records as it pertains to assigned customer accounts.

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Human Resource Coordinator

Itasca, IL

Requirements:

  • 2 years experience in HR required; 4 year degree preferred.
  • Requires sound judgment and sensitivity to confidential information and employee matters.
  • Must be highly proficient in all Microsoft Office platform software including Word and Excel.
  • Must be detail oriented, highly accurate, and deadline driven.
  • Position also requires excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
  • HRIS experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinates hire process for new employees; enters new employee information into HRIS.
  • Provides support with New Hire Orientation.
  • Sets up employee file and status change form for payroll and benefits.
  • Process benefit enrollment change forms for new and terminating employees.
  • Assists in open enrollment.
  • Coordinates all paperwork for terminating employees; sets up all required documentation including COBRA letters, enrollments and packets.
  • Answers telephone calls and provides telephone support.
  • Provides assistance to employees who come to HR for various needs.
  • Runs monthly reports to track enrolment for all benefits plans, makes any additions or deletions and prepares monthly billing payments.
  • Runs various monthly reports; attendance report, benefits roster, personnel roster, job title and department list, birthday and anniversary list.
  • Actively assists in various HR projects throughout the year.

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