Ichabod Shop Event Assistant (FWS)
About The Position
The Event Assistant works in the Ichabod Shop’s merchandise department and also works directly with the Merchandise Buyer and Management team to work at events. Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of just over 7,000 students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals. Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.
Requirements
- Must be a student currently enrolled at Washburn University
- Minimum of 1 month cash handling experience
- Understanding of US currency and counting cash
Nice To Haves
- Previous college bookstore experience
- 3 months of retail experience
- Experience using a touch screen register
Responsibilities
- Customer Service includes greeting customers, assisting customers with finding the merchandise they are looking for, using suggestive selling, and closing a sale.
- Cash Register and Proper Cash Handling responsibilities include ringing up customers at the cash register on a daily basis.
- Must be able to operate the different types of cash registers with limited supervision or assistance when at the store and out at events.
- Be able to count down cash drawer at the end of their register shift timely and accurately.
- Use proper cash handling procedures at all times, this includes counting back change to customers, checking bills larger than $20 with counterfeit pen, checking for proper ID when accepting checks and credit cards.
- Ichabod Shop responsibilities include arriving on time, greeting customers, knowledge of bookstore merchandise and departments, ability to assist customers find appropriate textbooks for their courses.
- Adhere to the Ichabod Shop dress code.
- Arriving with enough time to set up booth prior to event starting
- Packing bookstore tubs according to pack list and event demands
- Setting up a display for customers to shop
- Working independently and securing merchandise at the end of the event
- Transporting cash according to procedures
- Unpacking the merchandise after event is over
- Communicating sales and customer requests to buyer
- Maintaining Bod Shop at the Bowl
- Performs additional job related duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
