Couriers and Messengers

Course Advisor; United States; On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Course Advisor is hiring a Courier or Messenger to pick up and deliver messages, documents, and packages. The role involves various delivery methods, including foot, bicycle, and vehicle transportation. Responsibilities include managing mail, confirming deliveries, and ensuring items are loaded correctly. Skills in time management, active listening, and service orientation are essential. Candidates will engage with key stakeholders to ensure smooth operations and communication. This position offers a dynamic work environment focused on efficient service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
• Check with home offices to confirm deliveries.
• Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
• Load vehicles with goods, ensuring correct loading.
• Deliver messages or materials using various means.

Skills

Time Management

Active Listening

Speaking

Writing

Service Orientation

Critical Thinking

Job description

Courier or Messenger

Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.

Responsibilities

• Call by telephone to deliver verbal messages.
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming mail.
• Check with home offices after completed deliveries to confirm deliveries and collections and to receive instructions for other deliveries.
• Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
• Load vehicles with listed goods, ensuring goods are loaded correctly and taking precautions with hazardous goods.
• Walk, ride bicycles, drive vehicles, or use public conveyances to reach destinations to deliver messages or materials.

Skills

• Time Management: Managing one’s own time and the time of others.
• Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.