Retail Sales Assistant (Part-Time)

Please note that references provided at the time of application for staff positions will not be contacted until the applicant has been offered the position.

Description:

This position works to support the BC Visitor Center & Shoppe and the Log House Craft Gallery to ensure consistent high quality store operations.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Fulfill all expectations of customer service.
• Perform all store opening and closing tasks without supervision.
• Responsible for handling money including cash drawer and deposits.
• Responsible for aspects of store operations in the absence of store managers, as defined by full-time staff.
• Understand how to work through situations independently seeking help when needed.
• Assists in inventory maintenance.
• Assists in keeping the store clean and organized.

What You'll Bring:

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• High School Diploma, or equivalent, preferred.

• Up to 1 year of retail experience or experience working with the public, preferred
• Up to 1 year of operating Smoothie Bar and/or food handling, preferred

• Maintain professional working relationships with store managers, staff members, campus employees and partners, and community members.
• Understand how to work through situations independently seeking help when needed.
• Embody the ideals of Berea College: (See Workplace Expectations, above)
• Possess an interest and motivation in working with staff members and the community, while supporting the educational mission of the College and department.

• Will need to get food handlers certificate through the Madison County Health Department if being hired to work the smoothie bar. Training will be provided upon hire.

• Ability to navigate campus independently
• Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to stand for extended periods

• Mostly indoors
• May be subject to loud noises

• Computer
• Cash register
• Food prep equipment

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall): Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team.


Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

Our Benefits:
Berea College offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees and their families including health care, dental, vision, retirement, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability and an Employee Assistance Program. The benefit package also includes access to the Child Development Laboratory for children of College Staff, ages 6 weeks to 6 years, Seabury Center Membership, Staff Development Funds and Tuition Reimbursement.

Eligible staff employees also receive paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Part-time employees who work an average of 24 hours per week over the course of a year, receive benefits on a pro-rated basis.