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World of Coffee Copenhagen 2024

We’re on the lookout for passionate volunteers who are keen to spread love and help us in our mission to support the coffee community. Your enthusiasm and willingness to make a difference can help us achieve something truly special.

Shanghai Hotelex March 27-30, 2024

We’re on the lookout for passionate volunteers who are keen to spread love and help us in our mission to support the coffee community. Your enthusiasm and willingness to make a difference can help us achieve something truly special.

Volunteer Job Description: Event Fundraiser and Community Ambassador

Position Overview: Join us as a vital member of the I’M NOT A BARISTA team at the upcoming Shanghai Hotelex event! We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us sell wristbands, raise funds, and spread the word about our vibrant coffee community. This is an incredible opportunity to make a significant impact, connect with industry professionals and coffee lovers, and contribute to the growth of the coffee community at large.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Sales and Fundraising: Actively engage with event attendees to sell wristbands and collect donations. Your efforts will directly support initiatives aimed at helping the coffee community in need.
  • Community Engagement: Share the mission and vision of I’M NOT A BARISTA with attendees. Explain our role and contributions within the coffee industry, including how we support coffee professionals, promote coffee culture, and make a positive impact on the community.
  • Networking: Use your interpersonal skills to connect with local coffee professionals and aficionados attending the event. Foster meaningful conversations and encourage them to become part of our community.
  • Momentum Building: Help create an atmosphere of excitement and momentum around our community’s activities and goals. Invite attendees to join our cause and contribute to a movement that benefits everyone in the coffee industry.

Skills and Qualities We’re Looking For:

  • Passion for coffee and community building
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to engage with and inspire others
  • Enthusiasm for fundraising and sales
  • Willingness to learn and share about the I’M NOT A BARISTA mission

Benefits to You:

  • Gain invaluable experience in community engagement and event fundraising
  • Network with coffee professionals and enthusiasts from various backgrounds
  • Play a direct role in supporting and uplifting the coffee community
  • Receive a letter of recommendation (upon request) highlighting your contributions and skills

Join Us: If you’re passionate about coffee and community, eager to make a difference, and enjoy connecting with people, we’d love to have you on our team druing March 27-30, 2024. Help us spread the love for coffee and the people behind every cup at the Shanghai Hotelex event. Together, we can create momentum that benefits the entire coffee community.

World of Coffee Dubai 2024

We’re on the lookout for passionate volunteers who are keen to spread love and help us in our mission to support the coffee community. Your enthusiasm and willingness to make a difference can help us achieve something truly special.

We always need volunteers to help us grow

  1. If you are an experienced content writer/copywriter, you can help us write barista stories.
  2. You can help with translating our website into your native language so that we can connect your community with the world
  3. If you have graphic design skills and experience and have 15 hours /week, you can join our Graphic design intern team and work on bigger projects.
  4. If you are a creative photographer or videographer with editing skills, you can help us create video content and promotional ads, etc. We need a promotional video for the campaign.
  5. If you have HR, Business Management, Project Management experience, you can also join us and develop our organization.

Projects in 2023

I'M NOT A BARISTA (我不是咖啡师) is coming to China

中国,我们来了! China, we are coming.

In 2023, we want to reach to more coffee communities and help more people in need. Recently, we registered our official accounts on the Red Book (小红书) and Wechat (微信公众号), and we need volunteers who speak and write Chinese to help us build our new social media presentations in China.

In 2023, we plan to translate our coffee stories from English to Chinese and share them with the Chinese coffee people, we hope our stories can inspire more coffee people and help their career growth, and connect the international coffee community.

Volunteering tasks:

  1. PR & Marketing in China
  2. Social media management
  3. Community management
  4. Translation coffee stories
  5. Discover coffee stories in China

Brewing Guide in more languages?

We love Brewing Guide, and we want to bring them back in 2023.

Our Brewing Guide project was a big success not only for us but also for the coffee community behind us. In 2023, we want to bring back the Brewing Guide card decks, and we plan to launch it in more languages to connect more coffee people. Currently, we are working on the Japanese version with the help of our partner, and we plan to launch the Brewing Guide Japanese version soon on Makuake.

What is more?

With your help, we can make connect more coffee people by this small deck of coffee recipe cards. Join us, help us translate the Brewing Guide into other languages. Are you a designer? Awesome, join us.

Share #brewathome with the world

Your local coffee community needs your help more than ever.
Download the images below and share them on your Instagram, tag your local roasters and coffee businesses.

If you couldn’t find native language, please contact us info@notabarista.org

Special thanks to L.A Coffee Masters ‘19 Champion Carlos de la Torre for the Spanish translation, updated by Andrea Pérez de Celis on 04.04.2020

Special thanks to Moka specialist/Coffee blogger Valentina for the Italian translation

Special thanks to Sulaiman for the Arabic translation

Special thanks to ABC Roasters for the Russian translation

Special thanks to Irina for the Russian translation, May 6, 2020.

Special thanks to Hario Japan for the translation

Special thanks to Laetitia R for the French translation

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Special thanks to Francisco Siviero for the Portuguese translation

Special thanks to Sebastian Franzén for the Swedish translation

Special thanks to Tzanetos Dalietos for the Greek translation