As part of our mission to promote craft beverage and agricultural producers we host public events to raise the visibility of these industries among state residents and visitors to Maryland. There are often volunteer opportunities for these events. In exchange for your time and effort, we provide tickets to the event, before or after your shift, and sometimes discount tickets to future events. If you’re interested in volunteering for a specific craft beverage industry (breweries, wineries, distilleries), please visit their websites to sign up for their newsletters. Volunteer signups are sent out through the public newsletters. If you’d like to volunteer for any type of event or activity that we do, send a note to hello@cultivateandcraft.com.
Now Hiring:
Community & Industry Cultivator
Cultivate + Craft is seeking a dynamic and relationship-driven Community & Industry Cultivator to strengthen member engagement and sponsorship development for Cultivate + Craft, its clients, and affiliated initiatives. This role is dedicated to building meaningful connections with members, sponsors, and industry partners, ensuring strong retention, impactful partnerships, and growth for the industries we support. While some administrative functions will be included, this role is primarily outward-facing and focused on relationship cultivation and engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Member Engagement & Retention
- Serve as the primary point of contact for new and existing members, ensuring they maximize the value of their membership.
- Develop and implement strategies to retain and engage members across all Cultivate + Craft initiatives.
- Organize and coordinate member meetings, networking events, and engagement activities.
- Assist in onboarding new members, providing guidance on benefits and opportunities.
Sponsorship & Partnership Development
- Identify and cultivate relationships with sponsors and industry partners aligned with Cultivate + Craft’s mission and its affiliated initiatives.
- Develop sponsorship opportunities and partnership packages that drive revenue and visibility.
- Manage sponsor retention efforts, ensuring ongoing engagement and satisfaction.
- Assist in securing funding opportunities that support the growth and visibility of Cultivate + Craft, its clients, and affiliated programs. This may include researching, and writing, grant applications.
Communications & Outreach
- Gather content, create and distribute newsletters, sponsorship updates, and industry announcements to members and partners.
- Create and circulate surveys to gather member and sponsor feedback, using insights to inform engagement strategies.
- Support the promotion of member and sponsor success stories through Cultivate + Craft’s channels.
Event & Networking Support
Assist with sponsorship fulfillment at Cultivate + Craft events, ensuring sponsors and members receive proper recognition.
- Assist with sponsorship fulfillment at Cultivate + Craft events, ensuring sponsors and members receive proper recognition.
- Manage RSVPs, attendee tracking, and event logistics as they relate to membership and sponsorship engagement.
- Coordinate sponsor visibility efforts at industry events, ensuring strategic placement and recognition.
Administrative & Organizational Support
- Maintain accurate records of members, sponsors, and industry partners to track engagement and retention efforts.
- Assist with invoicing, payment tracking, and monitoring submission deadlines related to sponsorships and memberships.
- Organize and archive key documents, ensuring easy access to member and sponsor information for the team.
Skills Competencies
- Google Office products
- Quickbooks online
- Membership management platforms
- Mailchimp
- Canva
- Excellent professional written and verbal communication skills
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: Full-time, $62,000 – $75,000, based on experience.
- A structured creative commission package for recruiting sponsors and affiliate members, ensuring that your efforts in growing the industry are both recognized and rewarded
- Sick and annual leave
- A $50.00/month product stipend
- A $50.00/month cell phone stipend
- Billable hours for any weekend client event that you work
- A flexible working environment; work from home during normal business hours, plus in-person staff and member meetings, and on-site client visits. All mileage and expenses related to travel are reimbursable
Location: This is a remote position with a few in-person meetings each month.
Application Deadline: Position is open until April 7th.
To Apply:
Please send your resume, a cover letter detailing your interest in the position, and any relevant portfolio or examples of your social media work to kelly@cultivateandcraft.com.
Posting closes April 5, 2025.
Internships Available:
Each semester we look for enthusiastic and talented individuals for Government Affairs, Communications, Social Media and Events internship positions.
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT INTERN
Are you creative? Do you have an interest in crafting stories about local alcohol and value-added agriculture businesses?
Cultivate & Craft seeks a driven and creative intern to join our team. At Cultivate & Craft, we cultivate an environment where craft alcohol producers and value-added agriculture businesses grow and thrive.
In this role, the right candidate will help manage the social media presence and voice of Cultivate & Craft and our client businesses. This work will provide you with the opportunity to develop your creative skills in multi-media content creation and professional social media engagement.
The intern in this position reports to the Principals and will use their creative skills to create and schedule content for Cultivate & Craft, the Brewers Association of Maryland, the Maryland Distillers Guild and the Maryland Wineries Association.
This position is unpaid and is intended for current students requiring an internship in exchange for college or university credit. Due to the nature of our organization’s work with the state’s alcohol industry, the intern must be at least 21 years old.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assist with the design and execution of social media campaigns
- Create weekly and monthly editorial calendars to promote initiatives using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube
- Create and distribute compelling content such as images, infographics and videos on social media
- Track social media engagement and gain knowledge about audience interests
- Support marketing objectives at in-person events
- Perform social media marketing research
- Assist with developing influencer campaign strategies
- Respond to comments and DMs on social media platforms
- Brainstorm and research ideas for original content
- Write social media captions that speak to our client’s target audiences
- Help create and edit short-form videos
- Develop new strategies for increasing engagement
- Assist with photo/video content shoots
- Ensure brand messaging and voice remain consistent
- Other duties, as assigned
Education & Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of popular social media platforms from a brand perspective
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized and driven
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
Please send letter of interest and resume to hello@cultivateandcraft.com.
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS: ALCOHOL and AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
We seek one intern each semester to assist in its governmental affairs efforts. We represents non-profit trade associations in the alcohol and agricultural sectors.
The internship is unpaid and interns will work remotely, with attendance in Annapolis during the legislative session.
Scope of Internship.
While C+C is a small organization, the legislative and regulatory issues it encounters are often high-profile, and life-threatening to the clients it represents. We’re charged with protecting the interests of the clients we represent, and as a result, must be vigilant during the state General Assembly’s legislative session every January through April.
Much planning goes into C+Cs work for legislative sessions. Planning begins in September in most years, though some larger issues are multi-year efforts. There are some years when Cultivate & Craft and its clients have issues/legislation they have sponsored, and in other years we must keep watch to ensure no legislation is passed that would compromise the industry.
Intern duties will include:
Governmental Affairs/Relations – Work with the Association Executive Director to manage consumer relations, including:
- Attending Governmental Affairs conference calls (weekly during the legislative session).
- Developing single-issue policy statements for various audiences.
- Meeting with regulators and elected officials to further C+C client issues.
- Attending legislative events to discuss issues with attendees.
C+C Client Member Relations:
- Assist Executive Director in notifying members of regulatory or legislative issues.
- Updating our “action center” if members are needed to testify in Annapolis or attend important functions.
Additional Experience the Interns May Gain
- Contract Negotiations – C+C revises event contracts annually.
- Association Management – attend association meetings and manage internal communications.
Requirements
Successful candidates will have willingness to learn and engage in government relations and governmental affairs, and:
- Have excellent writing, editing and verbal communication skills;
- Be punctual;
- Respect deadlines;
- Be a self starter and be proactive;
- Be able to work in a goal-oriented environment;
- Thrive in a high pressure environment;
- Be a strategic and creative thinker;
- Have extreme attention to detail.
Due to the C+C’s promotion of the state’s alcohol industry, interns must be at least 21 years old.
Please send letter of interest and resume to Kelly Dudeck via kelly@cultivateandcraft.com.
