Coffee Supply Chain Intern (finance/marketing/logistics)

Join us for an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of specialty coffee farmers in Nicaragua by telling their stories and connecting their coffee with the world.

Our Washington DC office is small and entrepreneurial, which means that every day is different! You’ll have a chance to see how our international operation works and dive into the fascinating and complex world of direct-trade specialty coffee. You will have the opportunity to learn broadly about the coffee industry while making important contributions to our efforts to promote sustainable development through our social enterprise. We work hard and value your ideas!

·      Learn about our business model and what sets us apart

·      Be able to work independently and within a team

·      Prepare marketing information and documents

·      Prepare and send sample packages of coffee to coffee roasters with personalized packaging/messaging/content/flyers

·      Create contracts and/or other sales documents for customers

·      Learn about specialty coffee taste/quality control

·      Familiarize yourself with our current media library and marketing campaigns

·      Edit and produce posts and/or short videos on the web, email, & social media

·      Assist with social media operations

·      Come up with new ideas

·      Additional projects as needed

Qualifications:

·      Attention to detail

·      Working toward a college degree or higher

·      Familiarity with the main social media platforms

·      Desire to learn and be creative

·      Experience with Excel

·      Financial experience and/or coursework

·      Writing skills

·      Coffee experience a plus factor

·      Experience with video editing a plus factor

This is a paid internship. Timing/duration to be discussed depending on our needs and your schedule.

Gold Mountain Coffee Growers is a coffee farming group that directly connects our members with roasters around the world--from farm gates to coffee roasteries. We have our own flagship farm (Finca Idealista) and are on the ground in Nicaragua all the time, maintaining both quality and relationships. Producers earn the right to connect with roasters when their coffee makes the grade in the cupping lab, consistently--fostering healthy competition. We work with member farmers on cutting edge farming, harvesting, and processing techniques to ensure long-term success.

Working with us earns farmers prices that beat certifications, stabilize income in a notoriously difficult agricultural market, and allows a dignified standard of living. We encourage roasters to come visit the farms with which they work to foster direct roaster/producer relationships.

Everything we do depends on excellent-cupping coffee. Our coffees have won the Good Food Awards, Golden Bean medals, and other distinctions as a result of years searching out the best specialty coffees of Nicaragua. A licensed Q grader on staff separately cups every lot broken down by day, producer, parcel, variety, and process (washed, honey, natural, and carbonic maceration) and we meticulously sort and package each of our coffees for maximum quality and longevity. Our staff maintains this quality and transparency along the entire supply chain directly from farms (including our own) to your roastery.

The people and communities behind our coffees are fundamental to what we do. We carry out a number of sustainable development initiatives in the communities in which we are located and work with our member farmers on improving sustainability. Our work was given the excellence award for sustainability by the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE).

Learn more at https://www.goldmountaincoffeegrowers.com/about and at www.instagram.com/goldmtncoffee