LOTTERY REGIONAL COORDINATOR

Position Overview

Are Sales, Marketing and Public Relations your passion? The Illinois Lottery is seeking to hire a Lottery Sales Coordinator with the Sales Division.  The individual in this position will oversee a staff of Sales Representative in a specified region, providing in-person customer service, guidance, and direction to Lottery retailers to ensure they receive the full benefits of selling Lottery tickets.  If you are a people person who excels in communicating and solving problems, the Illinois Lottery encourages you to apply for this position.

Essential Functions

1.  Plans, assigns, supervises, and reviews the activities of a staff of Lottery Sales Representatives engaged in promoting Lottery activities in an assigned geographical region.

2.  Provides assistance and advisory services to sales retailers.

3.  Monitors and analyzes sales records.

4.  Serves as working supervisor.

5.  Drives an automobile to visit business organizations and meets with sales staff.

6.  Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable within the scope of duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

1.  Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college with courses in Marketing, Public Relations or Business Administration.

2.  Requires three (3) years progressively responsible professional experience in marketing, sales, or a promotional field.

Preferred Qualifications

1.  Prefers extensive knowledge of sales and marketing principles, practices, and techniques.

2.  Prefers extensive knowledge of methods and techniques of disseminating information in a clear, concise, and effective manner.

3.  Prefers working knowledge of the State Lottery law, rules, regulations, agency policies, and procedures.

4.  Prefers ability to coordinate and administer the activities of a staff engaged in a Lottery promotional and sales program in an assigned geographical area.

5.  Prefers ability to exercise sound discretion and sound judgment in making important work decisions.

6.  Prefers ability to communicate effectively with the public, business organizations, bank officials and others, either orally or in writing.

7.  Prefers skill and resourcefulness to successfully direct and monitor lottery promotional and sales programs and to evaluate their effectiveness.

8.  Prefers ability to independently undertake ongoing or special assignments and to prepare authoritative and valid reports from which to draw logical conclusions.

9.  Prefers ability to meet people easily and establish and maintain good working relationships with the public and agency personnel and use diplomacy and tact in dealing with controversial matters.

Conditions of Employment

1.  Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history.

2.  Requires the ability to travel in the performance of duties.

3.  Requires possession of an appropriate, valid driver's license and automobile insurance.

4.  Requires the ability to utilize agency issued equipment, (i.e. cell phone, tablet, car, etc.)

5.  Must live within 25 miles of Region 6.

The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

About the Agency

The Illinois Lottery operates and administers the Lottery with integrity, security, transparency, honesty, and fairness.  Through the sales of its products, online and in-person at over 7,000 retailers throughout the state, the Department has contributed over $23 billion to support K-12 public schools.  Additionally, hundreds of millions of dollars have also been contributed to capital projects and specialty causes like Illinois veterans services, the fight against breast cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s research, Special Olympics, police memorials, homeless services, STEAM education and assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS.

In addition to the monetary support it provides the State, the Department champions the people of Illinois, strengthening communities through engagement with the public, players and retailers and providing safe, fun, and responsible games to adults 18 and over.

The Department values diversity, equity and inclusion and continuously strives to create the best workplace for Lottery employees.  By utilizing the latest technology, recognizing, and adapting to market and industry changes, the Illinois Lottery maximizes the value of its data through the use of predictive analytics and leverages its experience to meet the needs of the people of Illinois.  The Illinois Lottery believes that Illinois is full of winners because everyone benefits from its efforts.