Cafe/Retail Substitutes

Hudson, NY

Bring your HEART to Coarc!!

The Coarc Cafe is located in the Columbia Greene Community campus. We provide breakfast and lunch to staff, students, and visitors of the college as well as selling selected items from our Tradewinds retail store.

Tradewinds is a socially conscious retail space, located at 409 Warren Street, offering fair trade items from both local and global artisans, as well as items crafted by people with intellectual and developmental differences who are supported by Coarc.

Both locations were created to serve as an opportunity, to those supported by Coarc, to promote employment skills and provide meaningful work for people with intellectual and developmental differences.

Non-exempt positions

Hours: Various hours depending on location

Pay Rate: $15.00 per hour.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB

A Cafe/Retail Salesperson is responsible for assisting customers as they shop within the store/cafe. Duties include greeting customers, answering questions related to the merchandise and store policies and locating items for customers.

Perform in a manner that promotes cooperation with others, e.g. consistently demonstrates a positive attitude, remain open and adaptable to change, do what you say you will do and focus on productivity not activity.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Welcomes customers by greeting and offering assistance.
• Advises customers by providing information on products.
• Helps customers make selections by building customer confidence, offering suggestions and opinions.
• Processes payments by totaling purchases; processing cash and credit cards.
• Keeps clientele informed by notifying them of sales and future merchandise of potential interest.
• Cleans and organizes store/cafe as required.
• Closes out the register daily, properly documents days' sales and makes night deposit as required.
• All other duties as required by your supervisor.

REQUIREMENTS:

• High school diploma or TASC (formerly known as GED)
• One to three months related retail experience and/or retail training preferred.
• Lift up to 25 pounds-occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to perform physical activity such as sit, stand, crouch, kneel, bend, etc.

Please visit our website at www.coarc.org for Coarc job openings and to complete an application online.

For more information, feel free to contact:

Jamie Budai at: jamieb@coarc.org or 518-672-4451 ext. 2141

Mikki Kay at: mikkik@coarc.org or 518-672-4451 ext. 2143

Equal Opportunity Employer