Bookstore Assistant (Summer 2025 900249)
Middlebury CollegeAbout the role
The College Store is looking for an assistant for their retail operations. This position falls within Level A of the student wage scale. Offer is contingent on the completion of the PCI DSS training and the signing of the PCI Security Awareness and Confidentiality Agreement for campus personnel with access to credit card information.
Requirements
Essential Functions:
- Operate computerized Point-of-Sale terminal
- Restock and maintain textbooks, clothing, supply, glassware and greeting card areas
- Assist in College Store Office, performing basic office functions
- Receive, price, and shelve merchandise
- Assist customers on the sales floor
- Receive text book orders
- Verify the shipment matches the Purchase Order completely
- Process paperwork carefully and correctly
- Work with Text and POS software system
- Unload trucks, lift and move heavy boxes
- Filing paperwork and other office duties
- Work independently
- Perform other tasks as requested
- Experience:
- Previous retail experience or dealing with the public strongly preferred
- Working knowledge of computers and data bases
- Other:
- Must be able to work weekends
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail a must
- Commitment to exceptional customer service vital
- Must be able to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Able to lift heavy boxes
Position paid at level A.
Student Employment Eligibility:
Unless restricted by certain visa status, all students with an active status for the semester are eligible for jobs on campus.
Students on leave or withdrawn are not eligible to work in student employment positions until the semester in which they return. If you are currently withdrawn or on leave you are eligible to be employed in staff positions.
Some may be restricted due to financial aid status. International students (non-resident aliens) may not work off campus unless they have applied for and received work authorization from the United States government. (An F-1 visa does not give work authorization.) Off campus work study positions are available only to U.S. citizens on financial aid with a federal work study component.
Student are not eligible to work remotely from International locations.
Hour Limitations:
All student employees are limited to working no more than 20 hours per week in on campus jobs during the academic year (this includes exam periods). The only exception is when there is a full week when school is not in session. Specifically: February recess, Spring recess, and full weeks of December or summer recess. During these time periods only, students can work up to 40 hours per week. International Students: Visa restrictions prohibit international students from exceeding 20 hours of work per academic calendar week.
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