Summer Gift Store Employee

The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Alaska's wildlife through conservation, public education, and quality animal care. AWCC takes in injured and orphaned animals year-round and provides spacious enclosures and quality animal care. Animals that cannot be released into the wild are given a permanent home at the center.

Position Overview:

The Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center is currently seeking a Summer Gift Store Employee. Position is from early May until mid September.

Responsibilities:

• Performs customer purchasing transactions for retail items, gifts or pieces of art in a shop setting; explains characteristics and origin of items to customers.
• Informs arriving guests about the center & rings up admission ticket. 
• Actively promotes merchandise and offers all customers prompt service; wraps merchandise purchases for mailing on request; maintains a friendly, knowledgeable and courteous demeanor at all times.
• Assists with various levels of merchandising such as inventory, stocking, displaying, pricing, etc.; assists with opening or closing procedures.
• Operates cash register; makes and records cash receipt transactions; assumes all responsibility for gift shop or ticket booth bank/till.
• Keeps retail space neat and orderly; assists with sales products being properly and neatly displayed and stocked; assists with hauling supplies to/from retail location. 
• Maintain bathrooms cleanliness on a regular basis.
• Ring up snack bar sales; maintains personal and environmental cleanliness to attain or exceed regulatory sanitation standards; along with ability to explain product details (e.g. flavor, ingredients, how made-local vs. store bought). 
• Keep the area restocked with fresh items, rotating older stock to sell first.
• Familiarity with gift shop merchandise artists and vendors, knowing details of merchandise to facilitate sales; cash handling skills. 

Qualifications:

Necessary Skills and Knowledge 

• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to learn, understand, and follow verbal and/or written instructions/directions.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with other employees.
• Ability to work directly with the public, providing information and assistance on a daily basis.
• Ability/willingness to learn and pass on to customers those areas of interest to visitors, including knowledge about the animals, local history, people, culture, geography, etc.

Minimum Qualifications (education, experience, skills)

• High school diploma or equivalent, and
• Six months retail sales or cash transaction experience.
• Six months customer service experience. 

To Apply:

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