Overview
Acadia Mountain Guides, Inc. offers a number of internship opportunities for qualified college and high school students interested in the fields of adventure education, climbing instruction and guiding, guide service management and outdoor retail business management.

Our internships are true experiential education and hard work - you will be working with real clients, making real decisions with real consequences to the customer and company. In return, you will take home many new skills, experiences and insights that will prove beneficial throughout your career. Most interns will develop a focused project with unique goals and expectations that are mutually beneficial to the intern and to the organization. This should be followed through from conception to implementation early in the internship.

During the summer, AMG operates primarily out of Bar Harbor, ME – home to Acadia National Park and the summer camps operate out of Orono, ME.  Bar Harbor is a busy resort town similar to North Conway, Estes Park, or Jackson Hole. The climbing is predominantly granite and Acadia is known for single pitch sea cliff climbing right over Frenchman’s Bay. The 250’ Southwall of Champlain Mountain features great lines on superb granite and is ideal terrain for introducing clients to multi-pitch climbing. Forty minutes inland are the Clifton Crags with steep sport climbing on granite (close to Orono). Alpine rock climbing on Katahdin is about 2.5 hours away. Excellent bouldering opportunities abound in Acadia and Clifton.

• Provide front line customer service. Answer walk in, phone and email inquiries and process reservations.
• Schedule clients and groups with appropriate guide. Track client payments and guide payroll.
• Inspect and organize equipment on a daily basis, purchase equipment.
  
• Develop newsletter material. Newsletter promotes upcoming programs, sales events, and educational information. Distribute electronic newsletter and update mailing lists.
  
• Summarize client evaluations.
  
• Distribute marketing materials to local communities.
• Develop and implement social media campaigns to drive increased customer involvement, build followers and drive online sales.
• Update our website, Facebook and Twitter.
  
• Write product descriptions and other web content.
  
• Create promotional and instructional videos.
• Work with web analytics and Google Adwords to improve web optimization.
• Analyze the competitive marketplace.
• Develop point of purchase marketing materials.

Ideal interns will have completed or be in the process of completing a degree a degree in business management, marketing or recreation management. Other majors will be considered depending upon their resume. The ideal candidate would have an active outdoor lifestyle and a passion for climbing.

• Desires to work hard and with little supervision in a fast-paced and dynamic small business.
• Is extremely organized, super attentive to detail and have analytical and problem solving skills.
  Is okay spending a major portion of the day inside but looks forward to getting outside to climb and hike during time off.
• Has a good grasp of the English language and grammar and has solid and efficient writing skills.
• Is professional in appearance, confident, articulate and comfortable speaking with strangers.
• Enjoys writing clever little phrases that will make people want to buy our stuff.
• Likes to internet surf for outdoor gear and knows why some URL’s always show up then this is the internship for you.
• If you spend half your day on Facebook, can’t resist an on-line gear surfing and want to see how good you are at marketing then we could use your help.