Front Desk Receptionist

Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Plains; Brookings (SD); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Plains in Brookings, SD, is seeking a Front Desk Receptionist to welcome visitors, manage data entry, and uphold club policies.

The role emphasizes friendly front-desk presence, accurate attendance tracking, and courteous communication with families, donors, and staff. Hours are 3pm–7pm during the school year and longer in summer, with a team-focused environment and opportunities to support youth programs.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Customer service experience preferred.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Excellent communication skills in person and over the phone.

Responsibilities

• Greet and direct visitors and calls in a friendly manner.
• Maintain a clean, welcoming front desk area.
• Ensure authorized pickup for youth; deny unauthorized pickups.
• Record and reconcile daily monies with receipts.
• Enter and update member data in software and files.
• Attend monthly staff meetings and biweekly check-ins.
• Perform clerical tasks and assist with mailings.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Organization

Multitasking

Phone etiquette

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

TITLE: Front Desk Receptionist

REPORTS TO: Membership Coordinator

CLASSIFIED: Part Time, Non-Exempt

LOCATION: Brookings, SD

MISSION: To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

JOB SUMMARY: The Front Desk Receptionist is responsible for implementing and enforcing the policies and procedures of the Boys & Girls Club Front Desk and data entry. The Front Desk Receptionist will be responsible for maintaining a clean, positive, fun, safe, and friendly environment in the entryway for parents, families, donors, and all visitors. This person is expected to uphold the Club values inside and outside of the Club. The Club values include teamwork, impact driven, excellence, and good character.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Follow and implement all Front Desk policies and procedures.
• Communicate with supervisor, with a sense of urgency, of parents, youth, donors or visitors are upset or need further follow up.
• Ensure front desk space is up-to-date, organized, fun, safe, and welcoming
• Greet and direct visitors and telephone callers with a friendly attitude, relaying information on programs as appropriate.
• Ensure individual(s) picking-up youth are on the authorized pick-up list; Ensure no individual(s) on the non-authorized pick-up list are permitted to pick-up youth.
• Distribute documentation and reports to parents/guardian.
• Record monies received in receipt book and be accountable for ensuring that all monies received each day correlate directly with all receipts written for the day.
• Track member program participation for each space within the Club
• Responsible for the membership entry as applicable in the Club’s member software system
• Update member data in the member tracking software and in the members’ paper membership files.
• Send out all birthday cards, make recognition calls, and find ways to recognize youth through the front desk.
• Call youth by their name and greet with a “hello” and “goodbye”.
• Accurately record all facility attendance and ensure all members are scanned in and accounted for daily.
• Teach manners and other life skills and opportunities for youth while entering the Club and at the front desk.
• Perform clerical functions as assigned by supervisor, including, but not limited to, preparing membership cards, checking voicemail messages, filing, typing, and scanning reports, and assisting in tasks involved with bulk mailings, printing, labeling, and mailing birthday postcards monthly.
• Attend 100% of monthly all staff meetings, biweekly one-on-one meetings, and biweekly team meetings.
• Assist your supervisor in creating performance plan goals and accomplishing them by the end of each trimester.
• Provide feedback to supervisor on daily operations and how processes at the front desk can improve.
• Other duties as assigned.

EMPLOYMENT QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Customer service experience preferred.
• High level organizational skills
• Friendly, personable, and able to communicate well in person and through the phone.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work between the hours of 3pm–7pm (School Year) and 7:15am–6:15pm (Summer); Monday-Friday and Club special events as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be of the mental and physical capacity to observe, interact, and communicate with youth, staff, volunteers, parents etc. at the Club to ensure safety of the space and others, provide guidance and reflection per the Club priority outcomes and goals.
• Ability to stand/sit for long periods of time throughout a shift.
• Ability to operate various types of general office equipment including PC, telephone, copier, etc.
• This position is considered to be safety-sensitive.

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain nor be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and objectives required of employees assigned to this job.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace!

All qualified applicants are considered for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, non-job-related disability, or any other protected class.

The Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees in compliance with local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application/hiring process should contact Human Resources to communicate their request for accommodation at 605-692-3333.