Assistant General Manager

Job Description

Job Description

THE JOB  

The ideal candidate is a seasoned and highly intelligent hotel professional with extensive hotel and restaurant experience with a hands-on leadership style. Available to work when needed, including weekends, holidays, and nights.  

Based upon the fluctuating demands of the operation and to exceed customer expectations, it may be necessary to perform a multitude of different functions not specifically related to this position.  The Assistant General Manager is expected to perform other tasks and duties as needed or as directed.  Furthermore, employee responsibilities and job descriptions are subject to review and revision. 

• Interview, recruit, train, schedule, coach and support associates, ensuring they perform in accordance with established brand or hotel standards. 
• Direct and administer all Front Office operations to include, but not limited to, guest service and registration (check-in/check-out), room inventory and availability, guest service standards and initiatives, product quality, cost controls and overall profitability, marketing initiatives, systems use and management, budgeting and forecasting, department management, policy and procedure implementation and enforcement and meeting participation and facilitation 
• Assist the GM in preparation of forecasts and reports and assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of the budget to maximize revenue and minimize expenses while ensuring adequate supplies and staff are on hand to provide top quality customer service. 
• Be aware of guest satisfaction scores and brand standards and work toward increasing departmental and overall guest satisfaction. Resolve customer complaints, and anticipate potential problems by reviewing and monitoring operational issues, business flow and associate performance. 
• Assist with the property accounting functions including but not limited to Accounts payable and receivable, house bank audits, petty cash, and tax. 
• Lead, develop and support associates to ensure they are performing in accordance with WAHK standards 
• Answer inquiries pertaining to hotel policies and services and resolve guests’ complaints and concerns. 
• Prepare schedules based upon budget & occupancy, assigning duties to workers and scheduling shifts to cover staffing needs. 
• Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive. 
• Handles discipline of team members as needed and in accordance of company policy. 
• Monitor and maintain the front office systems and equipment to ensure optimum performance. 
• Create specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely action plans to remedy guest service deficiencies. 
• Ensure team members have current knowledge of hotel products, services, facilities, events, pricing and policies and knowledge of the local area and events 
• Run and complete daily reports, analyze data and make decisions based on data 
• Perform other duties as requested by management. 

Position Requirements:  

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in the hospitality field preferred. 
• Two Years working as an Assistant General Manager, Front Office Manager and extensive knowledge of overall hotel and restaurant operations. 
• MEWS PMS and TOAST POS experience preferred. 
• Can communicate well with guests. 
• Must be willing to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player. 
• Must be able to provide outstanding customer service 
• Must have knowledge of departmental operations. 
• Must have knowledge of computers and training techniques. 
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times. 
• Ability to exercise judgment in evaluating situations and in making sound decisions. 
• Must have strong interpersonal skills and cordial behavior. 
• Work schedule varies and may include working on holidays, weekends and alternate shifts as dictated by business and staffing levels. 
• Requires standing for extended periods, walking, pushing, lifting up to 25 pounds, bending and reaching, stooping, kneeling or crouching. 
• Excellent communication, organization, written and guest relations skills. 
• Strong organizational, project management and detail orientation skills, with the ability to multi-task in order to meet a variety of deadlines. 
• Strong interpersonal skills and a can-do positive attitude. 
• A true desire to satisfy the needs of others in a fast-paced environment. 
• Refined verbal and written communication skills. 

Benefits:

• Health Insurance (30+ hrs/wkly)
• Holiday Pay

We Are Human Kind is an equal opportunity employer. At We Are Human Kind, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.

Intentional Hospitality 

This is not a regular job, and we are not a regular company.  

We Are Human Kind is our name.  

We are a new hospitality group, forming around the restoration and rejuvenation of a small, magical, high desert community nestled in the bouldery mountains of San Diego’s Sonoran Desert along Old Highway 80. Live music, art, hospitality, and community are our heartbeat. 

We are dreamers and we are doers. 

We are looking for others who feel the same calling for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build something meaningful, something real, and something that reverberates through the generations. 

OUR CULTURE  

Our culture encourages the strange and unusual. 

We see beauty in imperfection.  

We like dust, we like patina, we like age and we like rust.  

Our culture is high fidelity - we celebrate humanity in all of its forms - all of the highs and lows of our natural human rhythms, backgrounds, experiences, and times together.  

We accept that life is ups, downs, easy days and hard days - and we wouldn’t want it any other way. 

We are not easily offended and we laugh a lot. 

We put everything we have into everything we do.  

We do not go halfway. 

As the owners and designers, there is no detail we do not care about.  

We care about the way our spaces make others feel and the way our food and our drinks convey our intentions. 

We are relentless, we are problem solvers, the show must go on. 

We approach all aspects of this endeavor from a place of aspiration.  

We focus on the human experience and our goal is to overwhelm our fellow humans with spaces and experiences that feel effortless and natural. 

VALUES  

Impressively independent and reliable 

Excitement about what you do 

Passion for the smallest details 

Grace and compassion for others 

Upholding honesty over comfort  

Resilient  

Conscientious  

Self-aware  

ABOUT JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS HOTEL  

The crown jewel and the heartbeat of this tiny dusty town is the Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel. 

A newly renovated boutique hotel in the middle of nowhere…one hour east of downtown San Diego. The hotel has been designed with a sense of place, natural materials, textures, and objects from ancient and primitive cultures from all over the world.  

22 artisan rooms, 2 outdoor mineral hot spring pools, indoor hot spring tub, exotic desert hideaway bar, restaurant with lava rock walls, vintage ceramic lights and outdoor patios under a canopy of old-world lanterns, a live music stage, and multi-friend cabanas with cast iron fire pits.