Goodwill Ambassador

It’s said that good help is hard to find. Unfortunately, so are good friends. And yet, everyone needs a BFF, including not only people, but also companies, cultures, and governments. If you pride yourself on being a good friend, therefore — someone who showered their inner circle with friendship bracelets as a child, and is a go-to shoulder to cry on as an adult — you might have a future as a Goodwill Ambassador, which is a fancy name for “Professional Friend.”

When you’re a Goodwill Ambassador, you’re a prominent individual — someone who’s well known in your community or profession — who serves as an honorary Diplomat between entities, including corporations, organizations, societies, cities, and nations.

Common examples are Actors, Scientists, Authors, and Activists who go on “international friendship missions” to foreign countries, where they present gifts, offer humanitarian relief, and socialize with their contemporaries and counterparts. Like these people, it’s your job to represent one group of people to another for the purpose of building friendly relationships that will be economically, culturally, socially, or politically beneficial in the future.

As part of your mission, you’ll typically travel, attend social functions, participate in roundtable discussions, make public appearances, do media interviews, and lobby Legislators.

Although most Goodwill Ambassadors do humanitarian work for organizations like the United Nations, some act as “welcome wagons,” representing businesses to prospects. In this case, it’s your job to find and ingratiate yourself with sales leads by presenting them with token gifts, information, resources, etc. Either way, your job is “making nice” as a means of promoting peace, prosperity, and fellowship.