Job Description

Job Summary/Basic Function:

Supervising employees, operating the cash register, open and closing the store, ordering merchandise, textbook adoptions and stocking shelves.

Essential Functions:

• Provide general supervision of employees during the shift and ensure that these positions carry out their duties amid numerous distractions. The Assistant Director is often called upon to answer questions, prevent or correct cashier errors, and straighten out problems that occur within the store, including technical and customer service-related tasks. Monitor the Bookstore email and respond professionally, maintaining high customer service standards. Typically, open and close the store, reconcile cash register drawers daily, and deposits to the cashiers office.
• Helps to ensure the efficient management of purchasing and inventory by understanding ordering minimums, vendor return policies, textbook adoptions, identifying damaged or incorrectly shipped merchandise and shortages or overages in receiving, maintaining accurate on-hand quantities, enforcing clear organization of stock rooms as well as stocking a presentable sales floor.
• Provide support, training, and supervision to employees regarding the current POS , textbook adoption process, and system. Training may involve multiple new employees in a single shift while ensuring uninterrupted store operation.
• Perform the services of opening, closing, stocking, and cashier either independently or with the help of other employees. Due to student academic schedules, the Assistant Director may often have to handle all store operations or a pop up alone.
• Participate in annual inventory, special weekend events, textbook support that includes procurement and distribution, and assistant in managing various programs throughout the year. Assists in MicroFridge ordering, coordination of delivery, and scheduling multiple times a year.
• Processing online orders includes managing, picking merchandise, and preparing shipments to be sent to customers.

Department: Bookstore

Preferred Qualifications:

Required:

High School Diploma or GED

3-5 years Work Experience

About Dickinson College

Known for its innovative curriculum, Dickinson is a highly selective, private liberal-arts college. One of the nation's oldest colleges, and named in honor of a signer of the U.S. Constitution, Dickinson became the first college chartered in the newly recognized United States in September 1783. Dickinson has just under 900 full and part-time employees - administrators, faculty and staff - and its 144-acre campus is populated by students from 43 U.S. states and territories and 40 foreign countries. More than half of students study abroad through the school's 50 programs in 24 countries on six continents. Dickinson is recognized as a leader among institutions committed to sustainability and green initiatives and is continually recognized by such groups as the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Sierra Club, Sustainable Endowments Institute, Princeton Review and Second Nature. Dickinson's stunning campus - featuring beautiful landscaping and buildings made of limestone - is located in the heart of the historic central Pennsylvania town of Carlisle, a key marker in Civil War activity. Founded in 1751, Carlisle, named a "most livable city" by Forbes, i ... s a cosmopolitan town of 20,000 people, nestled between mountains that have long been a destination for outdoor enthusiasts. The Appalachian Trail and several mountain lakes are within easy reach of the campus, as are Hershey Park and historic Gettysburg. The town is a transportation hub linked by highway, rail and air to prominent East Coast cities, with driving times that make these cities readily accessible: Harrisburg, 20 minutes; Gettysburg, 30 minutes; Baltimore, 90 minutes; Washington, D.C., two hours; Philadelphia, two hours; New York, three hours; Pittsburgh, four hours. Dickinson takes pride in its campus wellness and professional development programs, offering an array of opportunities to faculty and staff.

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Full time, Part time, Work experience placement, Outdoor, Shift work, Weekend work,

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