Festival Merchandise Assistant
Reports to: Festival Merchandise Coordinator, works with Finance Coordinator
Job Purpose: To provide guests with an exciting merchandise shopping experience while maintaining a secure and clean retail area.
Qualifications:
- Previous retail experience preferred
- Understanding and knowledge of monetary transactions
Work setting:
- Outdoors rain or shine
- Merchandise Tent
- Standing and walking
Timeframe:
- Friday afternoon to Sunday evening
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures a safe, clean and friendly environment
- Provides a good impression to guests and enthusiastically answers any questions about the festival
- Understand and complies with the Central Music Fest volunteer regulations and code of ethics
- Good verbal communication skills and sensitivity to customer needs
- Completes inventory of performer merchandise
- Completes receipts for sold merchandise
- Completes proper monetary transactions for selling of merchandise
Benefits:
- Ambassadors for the festival – first impression of festival for most performers and guests
- Opportunity to forge a positive professional relationship with performers and guests
- Comfortable work environment
- Volunteers receive t-shirts, food voucher(s), snacks, free camping
- Meet other volunteers
- Enjoy some really great music