Sorter

Sorter

Job Category: Retail

Full-Time

Rate: $18 USD per hour

Location: Long Island City, NY 11101, USA

Description

Compensation: $18/hr

Benefits: We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and textbooks.

Overview: The Sorter & Processor is part of the Processing & Distribution Center team of Housing Works Thrift Shop working closely with the Department Managers to ensure the enterprise as a whole is successful. The Sorter & Processor focuses mainly on processing goods including curating shipments & pricing goods.

Responsibilities:

• Report on daily productivity totals and tasks.
• Identify and distribute incoming donations for processing and curation including In-Kind and corporate donations.
• Provide sellable merchandise of apparel, accessories and footwear for the departments from donated goods that meet Housing Works standards as well as monthly and yearly targets.
• Assists with the processing and pricing of merchandise in alignment with the price matrix and pricing philosophy.
• Curates goods for themed events and seasonally appropriate sales and/or promotions.
• Assists with the hanging, tagging, pricing and packing of goods.
• Ensures that shop shipments are accurate and on time in compliance with Data Integrity Policies & Procedures.
• Maintain an orderly, clean and productive work area.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all Housing Works policies and procedures and ensuring that all organizational deadlines and directives are met.
• Excellent internal communication with departments and peers in a timely manner in order to facilitate goods for the needs of the business.

Requirements:

• General understanding of the resale market
• Basic computer skills in Microsoft and Excel required
• Excellent internal and external customer service
• Effective oral and written communication skills necessary to communicate with all levels of internal and external team members

Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State's first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works' New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union ("RWDSU"). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a "CBA") between Housing Works and the RWDSU

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