Seasonal Columbus Avenue Bookseller

Seasonal Columbus Avenue Bookseller

Department: Columbus

Employment Type: Seasonal - Full Time

Location: Columbus Avenue

Reporting To: General Manager & Assistant General Manager

Compensation: $17.50 / hour

Description

Job Type: Temporary Full Time, Non-Exempt Non-Bargaining Unit

Schedule: 40 hours, 5 days per week, including both Saturday and Sunday.

Location: 450 Columbus Avenue (between 81st and 82nd)
End Date: While it is subject to change, the current scheduled end date for this year's seasonal staff is Sunday, January 3, 2027

Always wondered what it would be like to work in a bookstore? Now's your chance to give it a shot.

As a holiday seasonal bookseller at Strand Bookstore, you will play a crucial role in supporting our store during the busiest time of year. You will maintain and organize our extensive inventory of books, assist customers with purchases and provide book-in-hand service, always doing your best to track down the right book for the right customer.

Holiday Season Note: For this position, we are in search of folks who can provide much needed support in the weeks leading up to the holidays, when our traffic grows exponentially. While Strand Bookstore is closed on both Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, we are open the days surrounding both holidays and will need all seasonal staff to be available during their regularly scheduled shifts.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and organize inventory on shelves, ensuring that the stacks are neat, organized and alphabetical whenever possible.
• Shelving in sections as delegated and depending on wherever the priorities might be.
• Practice book-in-hand delivery to guarantee that customers receive the items they are looking for and make recommendations to customers as much as possible.
• Complete recovery and other maintenance tasks across the floor as necessary, including but not limited to: tidying up tables of books and displays of merchandise, sweeping and cleaning behind information desks and registers, keeping workstations clean and tidy, taking out trash, etc.
• Process POS (point of sale) transactions, completing them accurately and efficiently.
• Assisting other departments with work as needed.

Competency & Position Requirements

• Must be able to complete tasks with speed, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Ability to lift items or merchandise weighing up to and between 10-50 lbs.
• Comfortable standing for long periods of time.
• Can be trusted to work independently while also maintaining a sense of urgency and concentration as needed.
• Must be flexible and solution based.
• Comfortable working with computers.
• Available to work 40 hours per week.
• Weekend shifts are a requirement for this position.

Benefits

• NY Earned Protected Leave
• a dangerous store discount