Temporary Sales Manager, Somerville Mobile Farmers' Market
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Statement of Duties
The City of Somerville seeks a Temporary Sales Manager for The Somerville Mobile Farmers’ Market. The market is led by Shape Up Somerville (SUS), an initiative of the City of Somerville’s Health and Human Services Department, and supports SUS’ mission to improve equitable access to healthy, affordable food.
Employment Period: June 15, 2020 – October 23, 2020
Market Schedule: July 10 – October 17, Fridays 9:00AM-6:00PM and Saturdays 8:45AM-4:30PM. Must be available to work a minimum of 13 out of the 15 market weekends.
Pay: $17.00/hour, 16-16.5 hours a week. Not benefit eligible. Extended hours may be available during the market season.
Essential Functions
- Serve as lead cashier
- Keep cash, receipts, and sales data organized at the market for easy reconciliation after the market
- Spot-check and reconcile cash after each market site to limit discrepancies
- Supervise other volunteers and staff at the check-out counter
- Assign roles for weighing of produce, bagging of produce, and more as necessary
- Keep check-out processes streamlined
- Provide excellent customer service and ensure a positive, dignified shopping experience for customers
- Help market manager with accounting and sales reconciliation when necessary
- Help market manager adapt mobile market model to adhere to COVID-19 safety protocols.
- Help market manager receive and bag produce items in preparation for alternative market model.
- Other related market duties as assigned by their supervisor
- Ability to drive market van preferred.
Safety Sensitive Position.
Recommended Minimum Qualifications
- Comfortable and confident with leadership and delegation roles
- Cash Management
- Experience with point-of-sale technology
- Customer service experience
Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills
Knowledge: Retail or customer service; awareness of and sensitivity to cultural and linguistic diversity; food produce knowledge (cooking, farming, health, etc.)
Abilities: Flexibility; working with many types of people; teamwork; comfort driving van preferred
Skills: Accounting; technology and computer literacy to learn and utilize Square, Excel, and debit/credit/EBT card processing software; bilingual or multilingual skills preferred
Work Environment
Work requires some agility and physical strength, such as standing or walking most of the work period. This work requires lifting heavy objects and carrying them. There may be need to stretch and reach to retrieve materials. Usually, the work will require extended physical effort over a significant portion of the work day. Duties generally do not present occupational risk. Injury could occur, however, through employee failure to properly follow safety precautions or procedures. Examples of injury include bruises from falls, cuts or burns, or muscular strains from lifting, pushing or carrying heavy equipment or work materials. May be exposed to wet/humid conditions, extreme temperatures, oils, moving mechanical parts, and/or potentially hazardous agents/chemicals. May be exposed to elevated noise levels. Must comply with applicable state and local safety precautions, including wearing personal protective equipment and practicing appropriate social distancing.
Physical and Mental Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the position’s essential functions.
Physical Skills
Work effort principally involves standing, reaching, bending and walking to perform work tasks, with intermittent periods of sitting. May be required to lift and carry up to 50 pounds, and push/pull up to 95 pounds.
Motor Skills
Must be able to frequently talk/listen, grasp, push, reach, stoop/kneel/crouch, and use repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement. Must be able to regularly move and operate mechanical equipment. Minimal motor skills are also required for activities such as operating a telephone, personal computer and/or office equipment.
Visual Skills
Visual demands include clarity of vision, three-dimensional vision, precise hand-eye coordination, and ability to identify and distinguish colors. Employee will also require visual skills to constantly read documents for general understanding and analytical purposes.
Send your resume and cover letter by June 9, 2020 to:
City Hall Personnel Office
93 Highland Avenue
Somerville MA 02143
Fax: 617-666-4426
TTY: 1-866-808-4851
Email: employment_opportunities@somervillema.gov
City of Somerville residents are especially encouraged to apply.
The City of Somerville is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability or any other protected category. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Auxiliary aids and services, written materials in alternative formats, and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities free of charge, upon request.
Individuals with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication, written materials in alternative formats, or reasonable modifications in policies and procedures, in order to access the programs and activities of the City of Somerville or to attend meetings, should contact the City’s ADA Coordinator, Nency Salamoun, at 617-625-6600 x2323 or NSalamoun@somervillema.gov.
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