To make coffee connect the world
Be part of the team I´M NOT A BARISTA doing an internship, let’s make a real-world impact together. Give faith and voices to baristas.
Check vacancies“60% of all wild coffee species could sipper in the coming decades due to worsening climatic conditions, deforestation, and the spread of fungal pathogens and pests. Climate change alone, experts predict, could cut the land suitable for Arabica coffee production in half by 2050.”
The coffee crisis is a huge challenge faced by the entire coffee industry, we all can make a substantial impact together. We want to find an alternative way to raise the awareness of these issues to ensure the coffee the industry is able to survive and thrive for generations to come.
We want to transform the coffee industry with information technologies to give people unseen in our industry paths to resources that value and raise their voices. Through connecting coffee consumers and small businesses, we use our platform at I´M NOT A BARISTA to unite the global coffee community through real stories that connect us.
The objective of our internship
is to provide a framework for assigning students and graduates from diverse academic backgrounds to I’M NOT A BARISTA that enhances their educational experience and skills through practical assignments.
We expect our interns to learn about coffee and spread knowledge and awareness of the challenges the coffee industry faces. Our internship’s duration at I´M NOT A BARISTA is between 3 to 6 months, 20 Hours/week.
Marketing Internship
- Social Media Marekting
- Public Relationship
- Event Planning & Management
- SEO Marketing
- Email Marketing
Project Management Internship
- Resource Coordination
- Time Management
- Project Tracking & Measurement
Risk Management- Relationship Management
Design Internship
- Graphic Design
Website Design- Industry Design
Frontend App Design- Marketing Design
Benefits
Internship Requirements
You will not only get your foot in the door but also have the opportunity to hone your skills, build their resumes, network with professionals, and increase your chances of landing a full-time position. To maximize your ROI from your precious time, we hope you are ready for this internship. We expect you to have the following values and skills.
Values Must Have
You must be humble and open-minded, you are willing to learn from work and learn from others.
You must have strong growth-mindset, belive in hardworking pays off and are willing to walk the extra miles to reach your goals.
You must be daring to speak the truth, and honest all the time.
Skills Required
To maximize the ROI of your internship with us, you must have the basic skills required in your special fields:
Marketing Internship:
- Good understanding of the essence of business and strategies
- Branding and brand management
- Social media marketing, and management
- Online event planning and management
- Insightful market research
- Good eyes for good design
Content Creation Internship:
- Content writing skills
- Interview skills
- SEO and basic marketing knowledge
Designer Internship:
- Design philosophies
- Design process & methods
- Design knowledge of using space, shapes, colours…
- Branding & Marketing knowledge
Project Management Internship:
- Time management
- Leadership
- Internal and external communication
- Multitasking
Get Ready
To get your ready for the internship, we highly recommend you to get familiar with the following theories, methods, and tools.
Team Communication
- BE TRANSPARENT, CLEAN AND CONCISE,
- COMMUNICATE REGULARLY/STREAMLINE
- OPEN FOR FEEDBACK
- SHOW RESPECT
- KNOW YOUR TEAMMATE’S FOCUS
Design Thinking
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it.
Project Management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time. The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints.
Time Management
“Time management” is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. … By using the time–management techniques in this section, you can improve your ability to function more effectively – even when time is tight and pressures are high.
Mental Readness
- Everyone else also has their priorities.
- Become the intern who doesn’t need to be told something twice.
- Do responsive, time is valuable for everyone, communicate.
- Your ideas matter only if you can’t back it up with data or any real thought, detail matters.
- Ask help only after you have tried to figure it out yourself, google is free and knows almost everything.
- Ask for feedback only after you have criticized your own work first.
- Be an active learner, be an initiator.
- It will not always be sunshine and rainbows, so be ready for some difficult times.
- Be a doer, a problem solver, that is how you grow and shine, complain and quit shouldn’t be the first option.
- Use your time wisely and catch opportunities to learn and shine, it is your valuable time.
Where to start
To get your ready for the internship, we highly recommend you to get familiar with the following theories, methods, and tools.
Join Discord
Use the link below to join the Discord Intern Channel
After joining the channel, please send a message to the group. We will add you to your team channel.
Introduction
If you are a Marketing Intern, please record a 15s video introduce yourself, university, and favourite coffee, and how do you want to contribute to the coffee community as an intern. Share it with your mentor on Discord once it is done.
Register a new Instagram account, use “your name + iamnotabarista”, you will use this account to contact interviewees, promote our NPO, and test your marketing strategies and skills
Get familier with tools we use
- Google Calendar
- Trello
- Discord
- Xmind
- Notion
- Spark Email
Coffee course
About This Class
Learn what it takes to brew an amazing cup of coffee by hand! Go behind-the-scenes with celebrated California roaster Blue Bottle for a one-hour class on sourcing, brewing, and tasting everyone’s favorite bean. From the plant to your cup, Michael Phillips brings every lesson to life while also offering options — giving you a process for making a simple cup or going the distance with pro equipment.
Team communication
- Use discord to clock in each day when you start your work, greet your team mates in the open channel.
- When you finish your day, please let us the team and us now.
- Report to your mentor, team leader daily once you have progress on your work.
- Fill your weekly feedback form every Friday.
- If you are not able to perform the same hours, please inform your mentor and team leader and add these information in your weekly feedback.
- After Monday meeting, must update your weekly work schedule on Google calendar and share with your team and info@notabarista.org,
- Must update the Trello board and update your own to do list, when you make a progress, update your board till it is finished.
- Each person must prepare a short 10 mins presentation to report to your mentor to present your learning progress, updates, and creative ideas.
FAQs
Here are the Most Asked Questions and Answers, if you have any question not listed below. Please contact us through email info@notabarista.org or Discord Channel.
Do's and Don'ts for Mentors
What a mentor Does
Listen:
function as a sounding board for problems and ideas
Criticize constructively:
point out areas that need improvement, always focusing on the mentee’s behaviour, never his/her character.
Support and facilitate:
provide networking experience; share knowledge of the system; offer assistance where needed
Teach by example:
serve as a model for adhering to the highest values in every area of life
Encourage and motivate:
help mentees to consistently move beyond their comfort zone
Promote independence:
give their mentees every opportunity to learn by experience
Promote balance:
serve as a model for balance between professional and personal needs and obligations
Take pride in the success of their mentees:
recognize that students may rise to greater levels than those who trained them
What a mentor Does Not Do
Protect from experience:
do not assume the role of problem-solver for the mentees
Take over:
do not do what the mentees should be doing themselves
Force:
do not attempt to force a mentee in one direction
Use undue influence:
do not use a sense of obligation to influence the mentee’s professional decisions
Lose critical oversight:
do not allow friendship to shade over into favouritism
Condemn:
do not convey to the mentees that honest mistakes are career-altering disasters
Do’s and Don’ts for Mentees
What a mentor Does
- Take the initiative: recognize the need for mentoring and seek it out
- Avoid perfectionism: accept that you will make mistakes, and learn from them
- Maintain balance: preserve time for family and friends
- Work hard: are prepared to give your best
- Support your peers: exchange personal and professional support with fellow trainees
- Take responsibility for the long-term results of patient care: accept that your job does not begin and end in the operating room
- Welcome experience: are enthusiastic about pursuing the widest range of professional experience
- Seek counselling: solicit advice or counseling if you experience problems with depression, substance abuse, or burnout
What a mentee Does Not Do
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Avoid difficulties: do not expect mentors to solve all your problems for you
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Sidestep work: do not expect mentors to do work that you should be doing yourselves
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Stay in your comfort zone: do not shy away from new learning experiences
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Take advantage: do not use friendship with a mentor as a tool to avoid work or escape consequences of your own activities
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Bottle it up: do not avoid talking about problems, anxieties, or grief because it makes you seem less than perfect
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Let your ego get in the way: recognize that everyone (faculty, residents, other trainees, nurses, and patients) has something to teach you
