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5 people are interested
Lead Volunteer at Fair Trade Store
ORGANIZATION: Ten Thousand Villages of Winter Park
Please visit the new page to apply.
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5 people are interested
Ten Thousand Villages is looking for a responsible volunteer with retail and customer service experience and a passion for helping others.
Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of customer service and retail sales experience
- self-motivated, outgoing, energetic & enjoys helping people
- confident in arithmetic and data entry skills
- multi-tasker
- ability to communicate clearly and be a part of a store team
- commitment to comply with Company dress code and policies
- enthusiastic support of and commitment to Ten Thousand Villages mission and its goals
This position plays an important role in our store. The primary role of the volunteer Sales Associate is to provide customers with a unique shopping experience by utilizing excellent customer service, effective selling techniques and sharing the Villages fair trade mission.
Duties:
- greet, welcome customers and share the mission of Ten Thousand Villages
- help customers find items to purchase
- ring up purchases and package items carefully
- provide customers with artisan information
- resolve customer service issues if they arise
- utilize the online catalog to look up product information
- maintain an awareness and control of loss prevention through attentive customer service
- open and close the store as needed
- dust and straighten merchandise displays
- receive and price merchandise
- work as part of an effective volunteer sales team
This is a temporary, seasonal volunteer position. Please contact us with questions....Thank you!
More opportunities with Ten Thousand Villages of Winter Park
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Ten Thousand Villages of Winter Park
Location:
329 N. Park Ave., Suite 102, Winter Park, FL 32789, US
Mission Statement
Ten Thousand Villages of Orlando is part of a network of nonprofit, fair trade stores with a common mission....Ten Thousand Villages provides vital, fair income to Third World people by marketing their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America.
Description
Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit, fair trade organization with the mission of helping artisans in over 30 developing countries make a living by selling their handicrafts. The Ten Thousand Villages store sells handicrafts including gifts for the home, planters, jewelry, musical instruments, fair trade coffee, and chocolate. The items are attractively displayed with the country of origin noted on each piece.
Sales associates share the stories of the artisans and the creation of their crafts. Artisans are supported by payment of a fair price for their products, up front money to pay for supplies when needed, and payment when they fulfill an order. It is up to the store to sell the handicrafts and make new orders possible so that the artisans can have a reliable source of income.
The Ten Thousand Villages store does have a paid manager and assistant manager, but the majority of the sales associates and merchandise receivers are volunteers. Volunteers receive training on the mission of the store, the artisan stories, and the cash register. They enjoy sharing the crafts and stories as they work in the store.
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Ten Thousand Villages Store329 N. Park Ave.#102Winter Park, FL 32789
DATE POSTED
October 15, 2017
SKILLS
- Retail / Sales
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 21
- Orientation or Training
- 8-10 hours a week