Lead Victoria Wine and Craft Beer Guide

**Job Summary**

Canadian Craft Tours is excited to be recruiting for a Craft Beer & Wine Guide in Victoria BC. Canadian Craft Tours is a company of craft beer, wine and food enthusiasts dedicated to bringing their love of local beverages to locals and tourists alike. Every tour and customer interaction is handled with a positive attitude through employee empowerment. This fast growing and industry leading company is looking for self-starting individuals to continue to provide top-level customer service to help push and sustain their growth through 2023.

Performance is measured by customer service scores (Internal and TripAdvisor), social reviews, task achievements, cost control, leadership and venue relationships. Are you an energetic, responsible and goal focused individual with a love for craft beer, wine and/or spirits and all the BC adventure tourism has to offer? If so this position may be a great fit for you.

**Responsibilities and Duties**

**Responsibilities Include but are not limited too**:

- Craft Beverage & Wine presentations to guests daily on-site at Breweries & Wineries
- Staying on schedule
- Positive promotion of our local partners
- Driver and pre-trip driver log submission daily/weekly
- Semi-annual blog to keep on the inside edge of the beer/wine/tour market
- Part-time position includes: Van staging, receipt control and filing, some customer coordination & marketing
- Part-time positions include guiding and training can be provided for individuals with the right skill set in guiding and or craft beer/wine touring

**Qualifications and Skills**

**Applicant Expectations**:

- Clean drivers abstract & criminal record check
- Class 1, 2, or 4 drivers license
- Past work experience in craft beer or wine
- Self-starting
- Ability to work weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- Ability to follow instructions
- Team player

**Benefits**

Stay on the inside track of the craft beer and wine industry and spend your days touring the best venues on Vancouver Island.

Although a substantial amount of training can be provided we request that only those with knowledge in beer, wine or guiding (Or great ability to learn) apply.

Have more than enough of a love of the industry, please apply. The position is full-time running a minimum of 6-12 tours per week during the summer months. Guide compensation is $20.00 during training, and $24 once you are operating a tour solo with a class 4. The average is $50-100+tips per tour Part time guide positions have the potential to move into a full time hours for the summer season.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Salary**: $20.00 to $24.00 /hour (We say $24 because our average guide makes $32/hour after tips)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Salary**: $20.00-$24.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay
- Tips

COVID-19 considerations:
We adhere to all Provincial Health Orders and rules to keep everyone safe.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Victoria, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Class 4 Licence (required)
- Driving Licence - BC (required)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (required)
- Night Shift (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-03-25
Expected start date: 2023-03-25