Attention actors, administrative professionals, recent grads: Help Wanted!
Please see below for:
1. Tourguides
2. PR/Marketing and Charitable Donations Intern
3. Weekend Manager
4. Business Development Manager
1. Tourguides
Calling all actors: get paid to eat chocolate!
What: Philadelphia Chocolate Tours is looking for energetic and outgoing people to join our fun team. Lead tours to Philadelphia's best chocolate shops and bakeries, and get paid $40 per tour plus tips and bonuses.
When: You'll have a flexible part-time schedule as an independent contractor, and you'll choose which dates you want to work. Private and public tours run weekdays and weekends, and our public tour schedule is at www.philadelphiachocolatetours.com.
Skills: You have style and an attractive image, love chocolate and love people, and can memorize scripts and information quickly. You can perform with pep and enthusiasm, and are outgoing with no stage fright.
Apply: Please send your resume (theatrical or other) and headshot, plus why you want to be a Tourguide and what your favorite kind of chocolate is, to talent@philadelphiachocolatetours.com.
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2. PR/Marketing and Charitable Donations Intern
Philadelphia Chocolate Tours seeks a college student to help a busy, growing, fun company with marketing and media outreach, as well as with support of our charity partners and other philanthropic organizations. Work with an energetic team, and be mentored by the founder, a Harvard College and Harvard Law School grad. This is an unpaid internship with flexible hours (and free chocolate). Some work can be done from home. Room for advancement to paid roles within the company. (And did we mention free chocolate.)
You:
- Love chocolate.
- Love people and work well with a fun team.
- Have experience or interest in PR and marketing.
- Have experience or interest in office skills such as Word, Excel, and proper phone and email communication.
- Believe in our charitable mission of Uplift Through Chocolate.
Internship includes:
- Help market our tours and special events through the media, blogs, Facebook, and other means.
- Respond to requests from charities for gift certificate donations.
- Help work with our charity partners on special events such as our Chocolate and Fashion Tours.
- Room for advancement: for the right person, this can lead to a paid role such as General Manager or Marketing Manager, in Philadelphia or in one of our other cities.
Apply: Please send your resume, references, and a statement of why you want the internship, to our president and founder, Valerie Beck, at valerie@philadelphiachocolatetours.com, and to talent@philadelphiachocolatetours.com. And please share your schedule, and tell us your favorite chocolate!
3. Weekend Manager
Do you love chocolate, and love people? Are you detail-focused and highly organized, and an expert in office skills? Are you excited about working in the tourism and hospitality industry, and making people happy? Our entrepreneurial team is looking for YOU!
Work includes:
- Reply to phone and email inquiries, to book tours and answer questions.
- Update our schedule of chocolate tours.
- Let participating stores and Tourguides know about last-minute changes in the number of customers on a tour.
- Greet customers in person and manage customer check-in onsite at weekend tours.
- Other duties that arise.
- Much of this can be done from home or from any location.
You:
- Love chocolate.
- Love people.
- Have great phone, email, and general office skills.
- Work well with a warm, fun team.
- Are detail-focused and highly organized.
- Have a positive attitude.
- Are a computer-savvy office expert who knows Excel and Word.
- Can work Saturdays and Sundays, which is what the Weekend Manager role calls for.
- Are an Independent Contractor and can set your own flexible hours, doing some work from home.
- Could be a recent college grad.
Terms:
You'd be an independent contractor, and some work could be done from home.
Please send resume and writing sample, with references, pay expectations, and a statement of why you want the role, to: valerie@philadelphiachocolatetours.com and talent@philadelphiachocolatetours.com.
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4. Business Development Manager
Chicago Chocolate Tours seeks someone with sales and marketing experience, who would like to sell "the sweetest tours in town!"
Do you love chocolate, and love people? Are you highly motivated? Are you excited about working in the tourism and hospitality industry and making people happy every day? Our entrepreneurial team is looking for YOU!
You'll oversee other marketing team members, and report directly to our president.
Objectives:
- Handle inbound sales, when groups contact us to inquire about tours.
- Handle outbound sales, by reaching out to our lists of prospects, and generating new lists of prospects, to invite them to book chocolate tours.
- Contact at least 100 people per week, and as momentum builds start booking 2 tours per week, then 5, and then 10.
- Meet weekly to go over lists of people contacted, results, and next steps.
You:
- Love chocolate.
- Love people.
- Have great phone and email skills.
- Are self-motivated and also work well with a warm, fun, professional team.
- Are highly organized.
- Have a positive attitude.
- Are an Independent Contractor and can set your own flexible hours.
Terms: For outbound work, receive a 15% commission on tours booked (and lots of chocolate of course). You'd be an independent contractor with a flexible schedule, and some work can be done from home.
Additional avenues of income: sell our Boston and Chicago tours too.
To apply:
Please send your resume, writing sample, references, and a statement of why you want the role, to: talent@chicagochocolatetours.com and to Valerie Beck, President, Chicago Chocolate Tours, valerie@chicagochocolatetours.com.
We are an equal opportunity tour company!
Our mission: Uplift Through Chocolate!