Gift Shop Associate

Seasonal Gift Shop Associate

We are seeking dynamic and motivating people to work at the Children's Museum of Houston's gift shop. The associate will be responsible for ensuring the visual appearance of the store, high standards of customer service, and accurate cash handling.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Customer service: greeting each visitor, offering help, and completing sale transactions.
• Register operations: opening, closing, customer transactions, securing money at closing in safe.
• Freight: stocking, pricing, putting overstock in stockroom. Doing a daily pull. Keeping stockrooms clean and in order.
• Store appearance: dusting daily, vacuuming when needed, straightening, fronting and facing merchandise, and keeping items stocked.
• Markdowns: recording on markdown sheet, adjusting inventory in POS, tallying the cost of items.
• Caf backup: helping in the caf as needed (registering, running food, cleaning, taking orders)
• Count sheets: counting inventory when asked to ensure accurate level.
• Train new employees in all aspects of the gift shop.
• Turn in all paperwork nightly (sign-off sheet, packing slips, coupons, etc.)
• "Sell" to the visitor, not merely a "hi may I help you" and ignore them when they say "no, just looking"
• Year-end inventory
• Other duties as assigned/needed

The list above contains the Essential Functions of the job & may not be altered without changing the basic purpose and objectives of the position.

Education required:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Skills required:

Register experience

Frequent light lifting, 40% to 70% of the time over 5lbs. to 25lbs.

Ability to stand for extended time

Inside Gallery Shop conditions for the majority of work time

Available to work late on Thursday for Free Family Night, some holidays, and weekends - a very flexible schedule.

Physical demand:

Manual Effort Applied Percent of On-the-Job Time

Manual Effort is Applied

Very Light Lifting over 1 lb & up to 5 lbs Occasional Over 15% & up to 40%

Light Lifting over 5 lbs & up to 25 lbs Frequent Over 40% & up to 70%

Must be able to stand for long periods.

Travel requirements:

Inside of Greater Houston Metropolitan Area No travel required