Front Desk Clerk - Aquatics

Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District; Bainbridge Island (WA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick leave

Pool pass

Fitness membership

Job summary

Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District is seeking a Front Desk Clerk to support the District office or Aquatics Center. Responsibilities include front desk and telephone duties, registration processing, money handling, and general office tasks.

The role emphasizes customer service, problem solving, and the ability to work in a busy environment, with opportunities to interact with the public and support district operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 16 years of age.
• Money/cash handling, inventory, office and customer service experience.
• Present as professional and positive image as front-line representative of the District.

Responsibilities

• Perform front desk customer service duties, answer phones, provide information, and direct calls.
• Assist with problem solving, diffuse requests, check databases and records, refer matters to supervisors.
• Process registrations: information, brochures, and online/walk-in/phone registrations; update data.

Skills

Money handling

Cash handling

Customer service

Communication

Problem solving

Multitasking

Teamwork

Tools

Registration software

Job description

Description

The Front Desk Clerk has responsibility for customer services, communications, problem solving, office duties, and staff support for the District office or Aquatics Center. Examples of responsibilities include front desk and telephone duties, registration information and processing, money handling and photocopying.

Description

The Front Desk Clerk has responsibility for customer services, communications, problem solving, office duties, and staff support for the District office or Aquatics Center. Examples of responsibilities include front desk and telephone duties, registration information and processing, money handling and photocopying.

Examples of Duties

• Perform front desk customer service duties as well as answering phones and providing general information or directing calls to appropriate persons, welcoming people, selling admissions, and concessions, booking birthday parties, recording attendance.
• Assist with customer service problem solving and perform duties such as listening to individual concerns, diffusing and troubleshooting requests, checking databases and records, and referring complaints or other matters to supervisors.
• Perform registration functions such as providing information and brochures about programs and using registration software to process online, walk-in, mailed, or phone registration, entering registration forms, updating registration data, and maintenance of registration process.
• Reserves facilities for programs, activities and customer rentals.
• Perform general office duties such as copying and faxing, word processing, filing, laminating.
• Operate office equipment including computers, copy machines, faxes, credit card machines and laminator.
• Keep customer service areas neat, clean and free from clutter.
• Maintain awareness of daily schedules and functions of department.
• Arrive to work on time and be ready to help customers immediately upon the start of the shift.
• Handles cash daily and may complete inventory when stocking supplies.
• Various duties as assigned.

Typical Qualifications

• Minimum of 16 years of age.
• Money/cash handling, inventory, office and customer service experience.
• Present as professional and positive image as front-line representative of the District.

Supplemental Information

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate in English courteously, clearly, tactfully, and persuasively.
• Ability to work effectively in a busy and sometimes noisy office environment.
• Ability to maintain regular and timely attendance and be ready to start work when shift begins.
• Ability to perform multi-tasking responsibilities in a high stress environment.
• Experience and/or ability handling cash transactions.
• Ability to operate office equipment including computers, fax machines, and copiers, laminator and the ability to keyboard and meet District accuracy standards.
• Demonstrated skills in computer software including word processing, data entry programs and internet applications. Ability to learn additional software programs as needed.
• Developing skill in forward thinking to listen and troubleshoot customer concerns, identify problems or issues.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other employees, division and department heads, and the public.
• Willingness to accept direction for job and skill improvement.

Work Environment and Physical Effort

This is a non-smoking workplace. The work environment is mainly indoors. Work is performed in a District office or aquatics center.

Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected classifications as defined by law. The job functions and physical requirements described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This individual is regularly required to stand; walk; talk or hear.
• The individual is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• This individual is frequently required to sit.
• This individual must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• This position may require long periods of sitting or standing in a hot, humid and noisy environment.
• This job includes repetitive keyboarding.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job.

But this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, marital status, color, creed or religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, including gender expression or identity, pregnancy, status as an honorably discharged veteran or military status, genetic information, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, compensation, training, and termination.

For questions about this recruitment, or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact Human Resources for assistance.

You can reach us by email at [e-mail], or by phone at 206-842-0501.

Benefits

• Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District offers sick leave to part-time employees. Sick leave is accrued at one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked.
• Employees receive a discount on most Park District classes, free pool pass at the Aquatic Center, and basic fitness membership at the Bainbridge Island Recreation Center (BIRC) while employed for employees and dependents.