Summer Operations Associate
Summer Operations Associate
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If you want to have a FUN summer make new friends learn new skills and work for a notforprofit organization with an amazing mission we want you to join us this summer!
Waterford Upstart provides fouryearold children with access to the highest form of academic support in their early education at no cost to participants. It offers personalized education and coaching a computer and internet if needed and adaptive education software. Our Summer Operations Associates play an important role in helping us achieve our organizational mission and providing an excellent experience to all families!
Our summer is split up into two halves: Prep Season and Event Season
During Prep Season Summer Operations Associates will be working in our office in Taylorsville Utah doing a variety of tasks to prepare for Event Season. We will use this time to team up with other departments receive training for Events and perform various administrative duties. These tasks are often repetitive in nature. You will also help run our End of year Celebration events during this season. You can expect to work four 10hour shifts each week (to total 40 hours a week) during the first half of the summer. Prep Season shifts are from 7:30 AM 6:00 PM Monday Thursday.
During Event Season you will travel around the state of Utah running Family Orientation Events for our participants. This will involve a high level of interaction with both parents and children along with presenting to caregivers and entertaining children during the events. You can expect to work four 810 hour shifts each week (totaling 35 40 hours a week) during the second half of the summer. Event season shifts are from Tuesday to Friday with occasional Saturdays and varied start and end times each day. You can also expect a couple of overnight trips during the Event Season. Due to the nature of running events Associates will have very limited time off during this season.
This position will run from June 2 the end of August.
Responsibilities
First 6 weeks
- Perform various administrative duties
- Receive training for Event Season
- Assist in preparing materials for and working our End of Year Celebration Events
Last 6 weeks
- Travel to and host engaging Waterford Upstart Orientation events throughout Utah
- Present program training material to families
- Lead engaging activities with children during events
- Maintain positive and professional interactions with caregivers children and partners
- Provide excellent customer service
- Continuously champion promote and advance diversity equity and inclusive excellence at Waterford
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED
- Excellent communication skills including experience communicating with young children
- Strong public speaking/presentation skills
- Willing and able to drive or make transportation arrangements to our office in Taylorsville Utah every day
- Able to lift 40 lbs bend stoop reach and stand for long periods of time
- Proactive attentive to details and ability to follow complex processes including the use of computers
- Willing to learn new software (Salesforce CRM)
- Willing to work long hours including early mornings late nights and occasional Saturdays (for overtime)
- Able to do repetitive tasks daily
- 2 years of customer service events or similar experience is a plus
- Fluent in Spanish is a plus (ability to host and present in Spanish)
If you are currently attending college and are interested in pursuing internship credit for this experience Waterford is happy to support you as you work with your university to do so.
A $100 bonus will be given to Associates after their first six weeks of work are completed.
About Waterford
Waterford provides PreK through 2nd grade reading math and science programs that children can use wherever they learn. Our programs help children reach critical milestones by 3rd grade laying the foundation for their future success. Waterford serves over 200000 children across 42 states every year.
Our Commitment to Equity & Inclusion
Waterford.orgs commitment to inclusive excellence is foundational to achieving our mission of universal literacy. Waterford is a missiondriven organization and diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) are at the heart of what we do. These values inform our internal culture and drive our external focus on making a difference for children families and caregivers in underserved communities. At Waterford we actively seek talent who bring different backgrounds perspectives experiences and identities to their work and demonstrate a commitment to advancing our mission.
Working at Waterford
Waterford team members are located across the United States with our headquarters in Utah. We anticipate this fulltime position will pay $16.50 per hour depending on the education experience and skill level of the individual we hire.
Waterford Employee Growth & Applications
At Waterford we truly believe in the boundless potential of our team members and their continuous growth and development. We are dedicated to encouraging a culture that nurtures talent from within which is why we prioritize internal applicants for all job postings. External candidates may experience a delay in being contacted by our Talent Acquisition team.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Waterford is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equalopportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Waterford is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Temp
