Position Title: Ichabod Shop Seasonal Cashier (FWS)
Department: Ichabod Shop
Advertised Pay: $10.00
Campus Location: Washburn University
Position Summary:
This position works as a cashier during high traffic periods such as back to school rush, buyback week, and other events throughout the school year. The primary duties of this position are providing customer service and running a cash register. Other duties may include restocking, merchandising, cleaning, straightening, order fulfillment or assisting customers on the sales floor.
AVAILABILLTY REQUIREMENTS:
-Must be able to start work the last week of July or beginning of August, weekends, evenings, and finals week.
PREFERRED AVAILABILITY:
-Family Day weekend, Homecoming, and Kansas Book Festival weekend.
About Washburn University:
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.
Essential Functions:
-Customer service: Includes greeting customers, assisting customers with finding merchandise, answering customer questions, both instore and phone calls, and directing/transferring customers to appropriate staff members if answers are unknown.
-Cash Register and Proper Cash Handling: Responsibilities include ringing up customers at the cash register on a daily basis. Will also operate different types of cash registers with limited supervision or assistance when at the store or at events. Will use proper cash handling procedures at all times, including counting back change to customers, checking bills larger than $20 with counterfeit pen, checking for proper ID when accepting checks and understand credit card policies.
-Ichabod Shop responsibilities include, arriving on time, greeting customers, knowledge of bookstore merchandise and departments, ability to assist customers, and find appropriate textbooks for their courses. Adhere to the Ichabod Shop dress code.
-Perform additional job related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
-Must be a student currently enrolled at Washburn University.
-Understanding of US currency and counting cash.
-Ability to communicate with customers.
Physical Requirements:
-Must be able to move a minimum of 25 lbs.
-Ability to stand for long periods.
Preferred Qualifications:
-Three months of retail experience, and cash register experience.
Special Instructions to Applicants:
Hourly
Background Check Required