Senior Sales Associate

Title: Senior Sales Associate

State Role Title: JYFT Gift Shop Clerk

Hiring Range: $16

Pay Band: UG

Agency: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Location: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation

Agency Website: jyfmuseums.org

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Senior Sales Associates serve in a lead position, responsible for modeling best retail sales practices and providing superb customer service, often handling first-level guest inquiries and needs. Must have the ability to learn and understand product merchandise in order to promote sales and communicate effectively with customers and staff. In addition, this position is responsible for opening and closing shops, performing cash reconciliations, balancing registers and safes and ensuring that bank deposits and financial paperwork are done correctly. They will also assist in the receiving, verifying and transferring of merchandise, to include proper pricing and stocking. Assist with the training of new staff and making sure that sales floors and stock rooms are kept clean, orderly and well stocked.

Minimum Qualifications

Excellent customer service skills.
Experience with cash handling and processing credit card payments using a POS system.
Previous sales experience.
Basic computer skills.
Previous experience working in a public contact position.

Additional Considerations

Any prior experience in a retail key holder position is helpful.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

This is a part time/wage position and is capped at 1500 hours per year. Our museums are open 362 days a year and sustain a 7 day a week operation, requiring weekend and holiday work.

Contact Information

Name: Lee Shelhorse

Phone: 7572534553

Email: leeann.shelhorse@jyf.virginia.gov

 

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.