Attention managerial professionals, ambitious and energetic recent grads, administrative professionals, actors, students:
Help Wanted!
Please see below for information on our open roles:
0. Office Temps
1. General Manager
2. Tourguides - Chicago, or Geneva IL
3. Interns - for Marketing/PR, and Business Development
4. Business Development Manager
Please apply online for open positions. No phone calls, please.
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0. Office Temps
Chicago Chocolate Tours seeks office superstars!
Are you great on phones and emails and an expert in the spoken and written word? Detail focused and sharp? Positive and excellent at customer service?
Apply for our part-time daytime or part-time nights and weekends Office Temp role. We're looking for someone who can handle overflow work as it arises.
Please send your resume and references, and a statement of why you want the role, plus whether you'd prefer daytime or nights and weekends, to our Talent Director at talent@chicagochocolatetours.com with a copy to our founder Valerie Beck at valerie@chicagochocolatetours.com.
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1. General Manager
Chicago Chocolate Tours seeks a first-class office superstar as our General Manager!
Do you have managerial experience, and are you a proactive people-person, with a positive attitude, who is also detail-focused and highly organized?
Are you an energetic go-getter who loves working with a sense of urgency?
Do you love the hospitality industry and making people happy every day?
Are you the right person to:
- manage a busy, upbeat office and maintain productivity
- oversee the schedule
- take care of customers
- communicate with partner stores
- oversee the team
- liaise with charity partners
- book new business
- handle other initiatives that arise
And: must love chocolate!
Terms:
You'd be an independent contractor with a flexible schedule, and some work can be done from home. Possibility for advancement within the company.
Apply:
Please send your resume and a writing sample, with references, pay expectations, and a statement of why you want the role to our Talent Director at talent@chicagochocolatetours.com with a copy to our founder Valerie Beck at valerie@chicagochocolatetours.com.
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2. Tourguides
Calling all actors: get paid to eat chocolate!
What: Chicago Chocolate Tours is looking for energetic and outgoing people to join our fun team. Lead tours to Chicago's best chocolate shops and bakeries, and get paid $40 per tour plus tips and bonuses. Tourguides also sought for our Geneva, IL, route! Start immediately.
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.chicagochocolatetours.com/tours.
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 a statement of why you want to be a Tourguide, whether you're interested in Chicago or Geneva IL or both, and what your favorite kind of chocolate is, to our Talent Director at talent@chicagochocolatetours.com and to our founder Valerie Beck at valerie@chicagochocolatetours.com. No phone calls, please.
3. Interns for Marketing/PR, and Business Development Intern
Chicago Chocolate Tours seeks a college student or other ambitious individual 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. Also, learn about and engage in general business and development. See an entrepreneurial company from the inside. 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, marketing, social media, philanthropy, and/or general business.
- 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, and anniversary party.
- Assist with general business tasks and development goals.
- Room for advancement: for the right person, this can lead to a paid role such as at the Assistant Manager level, in Chicago 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@chicagochocolatetours.com, and to talent@chicagochocolatetours.com. And please share your schedule, and tell us your favorite chocolate! No phone calls, please.
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. Start immediately.
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 Philadelphia 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.
No phone calls, please.
We are an equal opportunity tour company!
Our mission: Uplift Through Chocolate!