Cashier Team Member

Salt & Light Ministries; Illinois; On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-tax supplemental insurance options

Job summary

Salt & Light Ministries in Illinois is seeking a friendly Cashier Team Member who loves people and works well on a team to serve customers, volunteers, and staff with genuine hospitality.

As part of our store and outreach efforts, you will handle quick and accurate sales, assist shoppers, and maintain a welcoming environment consistent with our mission to fight poverty with dignity. This on-site role requires reliability and a willingness to learn our POS system.

Qualifications

• Work well with diverse staff, customers, and volunteers.
• Self-starter and solution-focused.
• Work efficiently in a team and independently.
• Ability to learn the organization’s digital point of sale.
• Ability to read, do basic math, and cash handling.
• Ability to stand, bend, and lift merchandise throughout an 8-hr. shift.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. or more with assistance.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers with smiles, kind words, and honest customer service.
• Quick and accurate sales transactions using the point of sale system.
• Assist customers, volunteers, and employees with questions and help with needs.

Skills

Diversity awareness

Self-starter

Teamwork

Independent work

POS literacy

Basic math

Stamina

Heavy lifting

Job description

Cashier Team Member

Work with a purpose as part of a team empowering people to change their lives.

Join a team dedicated to helping every person—participants, volunteers, donors, and staff—realize the fullness of who it is God created us to be as we fight poverty with dignity.

About Salt & Light (S&L)

We are a non-denominational, Christian nonprofit not affiliated with any one church, rather, working with many different individuals, churches, businesses, and organizations in fulfilling our mission and vision.

Our doorsfirst opened January 2004in Champaign, ILaswebeganhanding out food and clothing to local families. Very quickly we became the largest “emergency food program” in Champaign County,and a leader in the community for providing access to basic resources. In addition to the weekly assistance provided through the food pantry and clothing closet, we partnered with area churches and businesses in large events designed to helpfamilieswith school supplies in the fall, meals at Thanksgiving, and gifts at Christmas.

We later added financial education classes and a computer lab, both of which represented not just the addition of new programs but signaled a desire to moveaway fromjust providing things,tooffering opportunities forpeopleto grow.

After wrestling with the theologies and ideologies found in the book When Helping Hurts, we felt led to design a more developmental approach to meeting basic needs. Our new model created opportunities for individuals to acquire the resources they needed through use of the skills, gifts, and abilities God had given them. Instead of being handed a preselected bag of groceries, our participants now shopped with store credit earned through volunteering. The stores we now operate in Urbana and Champaign are open to the entire community and generate revenue to support the store credit participants earn in addition to our other programs and services.

About the Position

Reporting to the Sales Floor Manager and Sales Floor Assistant Manager, the Cashier Team Member helps fulfill our mission and vision by providing outstanding customer service to our customers, donors, volunteers, and all staff members.

Our Cashier Team Member is someone who loves people and is a highly motivated self-starter comfortable being part of a team while providing excellent service to our customers.

Responsibilities

It is the primary responsibility of the Sales Floor Team Member to ensure a safe and welcoming environment for every employee, volunteer, customer, and donor that reflects the grace and truth of Jesus.

• Greet customers with smiles, kind words, and honest customer service.
• Quick and accurate sales transactions using the point of sales system.
• Assist customers, volunteers, and employees with questions and help with needs.

Tasks

These are key components for the Cashier Team Member. This is not a comprehensive list of tasks.

• Use point of sale system efficiency.
• Accurate cash handling
• Quickly and accurately move customers through the line
• Communicate with the manager and assistant manager regarding any questions, problems, or concerns.
• Clock in and out for shifts appropriately.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications & Skills

• Work well with diverse staff, customers, and volunteers.
• Self-starter and solution-focused.
• Work efficiently in a team and independently.
• Ability to learn the organization’s digital point of sale.
• Ability to read, do basic math, and cash handling.
• Ability to stand, bend, and lift merchandise throughout an 8-hr. shift.
• Ability to lift 50 lbs. or more with assistance.

Wages and Benefits

• $16.50 hour
• Pre-tax supplemental insurance options

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

S&L provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. As a religious organization, S&L is permitted and reserves the right to employ persons who have a philosophy similar to S&L and consistent with the Statement of Beliefs of the organization. S&L complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.