Sustainable Tourism Internships at The Schoolhouse

The Schoolhouse at Mutianyu Great Wall is a sustainable tourism enterprise that offers dining, lodging, and meeting solutions in unique settings just an hour from downtown Beijing. We offer challenging internships to international students who can bring talent, hard work, skills, and willingness to learn and share to our cross-cultural team. Download PDF Info on paid Internships at Mutianyu. We also offer unpaid internships based in Beijing. Contact us at info@theschoolhouseatmutianyu.com for information.

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Employment Opportunities

Mutianyu Schoolhouse Restaurant (Beijing) Company, Ltd. (MSR)

Position: Restaurant Manager
Location: Mutianyu
Description: Manage front of house for 4 food & beverage venues (Schoolhouse, Roadhouse, Xiaolumian, and Brickyard).
Requirements: Rich experience in restaurant operations, preferably including Western menu settings with international clientele. Proven ability to motivate and lead front of house team. Excellent training and organizational skills. Competent in Word and Excel, be an email user familiar with the web. English a big plus but not required. (Position listed 12/09)

Sustainable Foods Program Senior Intern at The Schoolhouse

Location: Mutianyu
We are looking for a senior intern to help oversee and manage our composting, recycling, and gardening programs, as well as our food sourcing practices. On our grounds we have two main gardens, many small garden patches as well as many fruit trees. We incorporate all of our homegrown vegetables and fruits into our restaurant menus, and we compost our organic waste. Our ultimate goal is to grow all of the vegetables for our restaurants on site.

The senior intern position requires a proactive individual with gardening experience and a passion for sustiainability, and someone with the initiative to take an already functioning program to the next level. Chinese is a must as the position requires working closely with local staff to grow and improve our sustainable foods program. Basic English is necessary. This position will provide an intern with the unique opportunity to enter into a position of responsibility where their efforts can make an immediate and tangible difference.

Wedding Consultant at The Schoolhouse

Location: Beijing
The Schoolhouse has been home to many weddings. We have the capacity to host unique, unforgettable marriage ceremonies at the foot of the Great Wall. We are looking for a motivated individual - preferably with a strong network in the wedding planner community - to help us attract more weddings and promote and improve upon our existing wedding packages. The position allows for a flexible schedule.. Salary is comission based.

Mutianyu Schoolhouse Glass (Beijing) Company, Ltd.
Position: Retail Store Assistant Manager
Location: Mutianyu

Schoolhouse Glass is seeking a Retail Store Assistant Manager who has a strong interest in working in a sustainable hospitality enterprise with vision and who has a passion for the arts. The potential employee should have a willingness to learn about our enterprise and embrace our philosophy in order to share the story of what The Schoolhouse and Schoolhouse Glass represent. Spoken and written English skills essential as well as an ability to use excel and other basic computer software programs. See job description for more details.

Business Development and Event Management Senior Intern at The Schoolhouse

Location: Beijing and Mutianyu
We are looking for a senior intern to help establish and cultivate relationships in sustainable-minded communities, organizations and businesses in and around Beijing - as well as beyond - with the scope of pursuing partnerships and creating events that add value to our business and promote issues of sustainability. Intern would be given space to envision, plan and execute events that fit into our plans to expand and grow the business. This position would be a wonderful introduction to the sustainable tourism industry. We are looking for motivated individuals with a keen interest in strategy and business development, and with the initiative to go out and establish contacts in Beijing.

Sustainable Accounting Senior Intern

Location: Mutianyu
We are looking for an intern with an accounting background who can help us measure and monitor the triple bottom line impact our businesses have, taking into account our environmental and societal performance. Aside from measuring our current performance, the intern will be responsible for providing a plan to help us improve our procedures – from our food input practices to our energy practices – as well as reduce our costs, lessen our environmental impact and improve our social performance.

Senior Sales and Customer Relations Intern

Location: Beijing and Mutianyu
We are looking for an intern to help with sales initiatives and customer relations, specifically with regards to tour operators. The intern will be responsible for creating a database of existing tour operators, standardizing communications procedures with these operators, as well as expanding the database by envisioning and implementing a strategy to pursue new relationships with tour operators, both in China and abroad.