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The Part-time Sales Associate role entails a dynamic and goal-oriented professional focused on maximizing sales and customer satisfaction. This individual must be likable, knowledgeable, and trustworthy to foster a positive shopping experience. The associate is deeply engaged with customers, utilizing strong selling, clienteling, and follow-up skills to build and maintain relationships. Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a willingness to learn about products and brands are essential to effectively guide customer choices and maximize sales. Operational knowledge of retail systems is crucial, as is the ability to spot sales opportunities and apply critical thinking in decision-making. The associate maintains store appearance, manages inventory, and handles transactions with accuracy. Creativity, a resourceful mindset, and the capacity for continual learning are key to keeping pace with industry trends and competitors. This role offers competitive hourly compensation plus commission, rewarding associates for their contributions to the brand's success. Qualifications: A minimum of 1.5 year of previous retail sales experience Likable, sincere, and knowledgeable to establish trust and a positive experience. Previous experience working as a barista Food Handlers license ideal but not required Tech enabled, Familiar in Slack, Shopify, Google Sheets etc. Goal- and results-oriented, sales-driven. Strong selling, clienteling, customer service, and follow-up skills. Excellent interpersonal skills; friendly. Excellent communication and writing skills. Willingness to learn about brands and products and to use knowledge to maximize sales. Excellent operational knowledge and ability to use the retail system. Recognizes and capitalizes on sales development opportunities. Creative, innovative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial mindset. Critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills. Continual learning and seeks ways to improve; ability to learn quickly and apply learning. Knowledge of the Media industry and competitors. Responsibilities: Sales Associates are tasked with maximizing sales, providing excellent customer service, active clienteling, and representing Air Mail while reflecting the brand image in a positive manner. Work both behind the Air Mail Cafe and the shop register, helping customers with both coffee and products. Properly greet customers with friendly and attentive words and behaviors. Determine needs by engaging with the customer; observe and converse to gather information, and ask open- and close-ended questions at appropriate times. Actively listen. Use product knowledge (features and benefits), company/brand information, and other knowledge to help customers make selections. Get the product into the customer’s hands. Create a client with each sale. Gather client information and contact details at the point of checkout. Ask permission to stay in touch and confirm the means of contact. Enter information into the client "book" and effectively manage the client book, developing relationships and increasing sales. Build a quality client book after each interaction, not just in quantity. Provide the best brand experience in-store. Make an excellent first impression of the store, even before the customer enters. Effectively handle customer inquiries and complaints with good judgment and escalate to management when appropriate. Understand that customer service must support Air Mail's business objectives. Accurately and efficiently follow operational policies and procedures, including processing transactions, POS, invoicing, and other documentation (sales orders, transfers, returns, sales reports, etc.); managing inventory, shipping, and receiving; performing open/close activities, deposits, reports, security, and inventory control. Understand that efficient and effective operations provide excellent customer service and strengthen client relationships. Perform corporate and designer outreach and prospecting in a manner consistent with the brand's image. Assist with preparing for and working at events. Maintain the highest standard of store appearance, following visual merchandising directives and product labeling and placement. Maintain the cleanliness of the store and products, and the orderliness of the office and stockroom. Study provided product information to become an expert on each product in the store. Drive in-store Air Mail subscriptions post-purchase. Assist in receiving new inventory and entering it into Shopify. Ensure items are prepared correctly for outgoing shipments. Assist store managers with orders coming in through airmail.news and prepare orders for shipment. Enter inventory data into the Shopify POS system. Maintain the cleanliness of the store and products, and the orderliness of the office and stockroom. Merchandise the store according to the merchandising guidelines whenever needed. Continually learn and seek ways to improve; demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and apply learning.

POSITION DESCRIPTION Position: Program Manager Program: VITA Tax Program Reports to: Program Director Salary Range: $60,000 to $65,000 Posted: March 30, 2024 Start Date: Immediately Full – Time- Vita Tax Program About Ariva MISSION: Our mission is to bring economic justice, opportunity and inclusion to our Bronx neighbors and other underserved communities across New York City. VISION: We envision a world where all New York City residents experience economic justice, financial inclusion, and the opportunity to build financially empowered and prosperous lives. We offer free comprehensive financial capabilities services and free income tax assistance at locations around New York City. Information on our projects and programs Position Description The Program Manager is part of Ariva’s management team and has lead responsibility for the management and performance of one year round VITA tax site and up to six seasonal tax sites. The Program Manager has direct supervision of two to three permanent staff and about twelve seasonal employees. The manager is responsible for ensuring that the sites within their portfolio meet all internal and external contract goals. Ariva is one of the most established non-profit free tax assistance organizations in the Bronx. We are an IRS sponsored VITA program and a Certified Acceptance Agent for ITINs. The program serves over 8,000 New Yorker each year at about ten seasonal and three year round locations. The tax team is composed of 5 full-time year-round staff, 20-25 seasonal staff and about 100 hundred volunteers. This job involves frequent local travel to sites around NYC and requires some evenings and weekend hours over the course of the year. During the main filing season (January-April), the Program Manager can expect to work most evenings and Saturdays. Face-to-face in-person service is an essential component of this position. All staff must be vaccinated and must follow the health and safety procedures in our offices. This position is 100% in person. The average work week is 45 hours, more during the income tax filing season and other busy times of year. Ariva is a growing organization, and this position offers the opportunity to grow with us. Responsibilities The Program Manager has full responsibility for the tax sites in their portfolio. The Program Manager directly oversees projects and tax sites and supervises line staff. They also provide coverage as needed in the absence of site staff to ensure seamless and efficient operations of the tax sites. The Tax Program is a VITA program highly regulated by the IRS. The Program Manager ensures that all aspects of the tax sites in their portfolio are fully compliant with all IRS VITA program requirements. Ariva is also a Certified Acceptance Agent for ITINs. This IRS program also has stringent compliance requirements and, in addition, has extensive record keeping requirements. If ITINs are accepted at any of their locations, the Program Manager is responsible for ensuring that Ariva is at all times fully compliant with the requirements of the ITIN program. Responsibilities Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Primary Responsibilities · Tax site performance monitoring and reporting. Ensuring the tax sites at all times meet all IRS and local funders requirements, including but not limited to the ten IRS Quality Site Requirements. · Recruitment, mentoring, retention and supervision of site coordinators and seasonal staff. · Oversight of community outreach campaigns and marketing to support a client pipeline at assigned sites. Maintaining an up-to-date client story bank. · Cultivation and engagement of community partners, financial services partners, and other host partners in the communities where the tax sites are located · Coordinating program integration activities with Ariva’s financial counseling program. · Ensuring a highly professional and client-centered environment at all of Ariva’s tax sites. · Ensuring the tax sites have at all times adequate equipment, technology and supplies and safeguards in place to preserve the privacy and safety of client data. Duties include securely maintaining an equipment inventory of laptops and peripherals, and ensuring the software is up to date, including security and antiviral software. · Participate in weekly Ariva management team meetings. Additional Responsibilities The Program Manager will also have lead responsibility for at least one of the following initiatives: · Direct Ariva’s ITIN program. Ensure that Ariva’s ITIN program is fully compliant with all IRS requirements. · Oversee Ariva’s Senior Citizen Tax Initiative, a program focused exclusively on the tax needs of seniors in our communities. · Oversee Ariva’s tax time savings and asset building initiatives. The assigned manager has lead responsibility in identifying, implementing and monitoring tax time savings efforts at our sites Supportive Responsibilities In addition to the above lead responsibilities, the Program Manager will work closely with and provide support to the Program director in the following: · Contract management. · Reviewing and approving communications content, including website information and social media content related to the tax programs Core Competencies: Minimum three years of experience in managing VITA sites. Seasonal site experience is acceptable. · A demonstrated commitment to and experience working with low-income people and in low-income communities. · Extraordinary customer service skills and high standards of professionalism. · Skilled in managing, motivating and supporting staff and volunteers. · Strong project management skills; ability to simultaneously manage several busy tax sites. · Cultural competence to provide services to the diverse members of our community. · Ability to identify and build new relationships and manage existing ones with community partners. · Computer-literate; comfortable with data management, data entry, and reporting. · Very strong written and verbal communication skills. · Familiarity with CRMs, especially Salesforce and tax software (currently TaxSlayer) · Contract or grant management experience and skills. · Able to work in person and engage in frequent local travel to visit multiple tax sites, primarily in the Bronx. · Willing and able to be flexible in their work schedule; able to accommodate evening and weekend hours to support the tax sites. Depending on project portfolio, additional competencies may be required in: · Services to seniors · ITIN preparation · Asset building and tax time savings. In addition to the above core competencies, the ideal candidate would also have · Basic knowledge of individual income tax returns · Familiarity with social media and some or all of the following applications; Salesforce, Constant Contacts, Wordpress. Salary: $60,000 to $65,000/year, depending on experience. Ariva offers full-time employees subsidized health and dental insurance, generous paid time off and other benefits. This posting will remain open through August 30th, 2024. "Ariva is an Equal Opportunity Employer"

Internal Sales Representative Anchor Health (Brooklyn) – Sales Department About us: Anchor Health is a fast-growing home care agency that was established in 2018, and as of 2024 has nearly reached 7,000 active patients. With the growing need for homecare, we are key players in educating patients about our offering and delivering for those in need of services. We are recognized as one of the fastest-growing homecare agencies in New York because we strive to impact the communities and clientele we serve each day. About the role: As an Internal Sales Representative, you will have the exciting opportunity to impact potential patients through offering our homecare services. At Anchor, we execute multiple creative and standard lead generation strategies to produce the opportunities to convert prospects to patients. This role itself is truly for candidates that aspire to become a top sales producer within a healthcare company. Whether it is cold call outreach, or warm lead follow-ups, our team’s foundation is built on converting those leads to referrals for our back-end teams to execute on getting the patient the services they need. You can expect the environment and culture to be sales-oriented, team-focused, and full of positive energy where performance is encouraged and recognized. This opportunity presents a competitive salary and lucrative commission structure that will be discussed. Key Attributes: First 90 days (about 3 months) of employment: • This period is focused on building the initial foundation to be successful within the role and team • Extensive learning opportunities from your team members, managers and various personnel throughout the company • A “trial period” for assessing your future opportunity and fit for this role at Anchor __________________________________________________________________________________________ Detailed Day to Day for the Role • Starting off the day with high energy and a positive mindset • Connecting with team members and manager to set tasks, goals and overall agenda for our daily outreach • Utilizing CRM, Phone software and the referral reporting system to operate efficiently and accurately • Build note taking and phone etiquette skills to convert leads to clients • Reaching out to approximately 125 leads daily across our various referral sources • Daily team meetings to discuss strategy and services offerings • One on one progression-based conversations with your manager While this overview provides a helpful framework, what truly defines an extraordinary employee goes beyond specific guidelines. An exceptional employee is adaptable, resourceful, and consistently demonstrates the qualities of a team player. The responsibilities of this role may evolve over time based on the company's current needs.

Overview Basketball Operations Intern position requires a highly motivated, knowledgeable and dynamic individual whose responsible to assist in the day-to-day organization of the basketball program; provide administrative services to the Commissioner and Marketing/Sales Staff; assist in camps, leagues, clinic activities. Job Responsibilities Responsible for managing and coordinating league, clinics, camps calendars Initiate and coordinate community outreach activities and calendar with Marketing/Sales Staff Assist in activities and responsibilities associated with daily operations of camps, leagues, clinics Provide excellent phone and in person customer service when applicable Assist with marketing, lead generation and sales Attend weekly staff meetings Other duties as assigned by Manager Requirements Required Skills, Experience, and Abilities Recent graduate or current student of a 4 year college/university who has or is working towards a degree in Business, Sports Management, Marketing or related field Ability to work in a fast-paced environment Ability to work individually and as a team Excellent interpersonal skills with a friendly and professional telephone manner Huge drive, ambition, and motivation for success with an outstanding work ethic Presents self in professional manner and have ability to interact with all levels of organization and outside contacts Planning and organizing, can prioritize work activities; uses time efficiently Ability to work extended hours including nights and weekends

BEYOND THE BEEZ is a sexual wellness platform. We specialize in online workshops that are built to guide you from childhood through all of life’s milestones. We offer factually-accurate sexual education, alongside products and events to help you connect with your sexual self and define your own pleasure free of judgment and shame. Industries: Health, Wellness, Education Position: Part-Time Public Relations Intern Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing Employment type & location: Part-time, Hybrid Duration: 4-6 months Hours Desired: 15-20/week Compensation: School Credit Your opportunity: This opportunity offers a chance to acquire experience in the wellness industry. You will receive a well-rounded understanding of Communications through hands-on experience. You'll broaden your professional network and be able to immerse yourself in a startup environment. By engaging in various projects, you'll have the chance to contribute your ideas and see them come to life, fostering both personal and professional growth. Join us in our mission to promote healthier lifestyles and make a meaningful impact on the well-being of our community. Who you are: Enthusiastic about acquiring new knowledge Demonstrates initiative and can work independently Excited to drive progress in the sexual wellness industry Passionate about communication efforts and enhancing brand visibility How you will contribute: Keeping our media contact lists current Facilitating smooth communication between the brand & press contacts (i.e. pitching) Supporting event outreach efforts Generating fresh topics and angles Conducting research and providing updates on relevant news Developing and overseeing our PR calendar Actively promoting past and upcoming brand products/launches, and more