Temporary Sales Assistant
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Job Description
Statement of Duties
The City of Somerville seeks a Temporary Sales Assistant for The Somerville Mobile Farmers Market. The market is led by The Office of Food Access and Healthy Communities (OFAHC) within the City of Somervilles Health and Human Services Department. The market supports OFAHCs mission to improve equitable access to healthy affordable food. Local farm produce is purchased each week from July through October and then sold at low prices during 2hour markets held in four neighborhoods of Somerville. The Market accepts many forms of payment including nutrition benefits such as SNAP/HIP and Farmers Market Coupons. The Temporary Market plays an integral role in preparing and operating the market each week.
This role is perfect for those seeking a parttime opportunity.
Employment Details:
Dates of Hire: June 23rd November 8th 2025
Work Schedule:
Thursdays 11:00 am 7:00pm
Fridays: 10:00 am 6:00 pm
Saturdays: 9:30 am 1:30pm
>> Must be available to work a minimum of 15 out of the 17 market weekends.
Pay: $18.00/hour 20 hours a week. Not benefit eligible.
Cover Letter preferred
Essential Functions
- Help with the setup and break down of every market.
- Serve as lead cashier
- Keep cash receipts and sales data organized at the market for easy reconciliation after the market
- Spotcheck and reconcile cash after each market site to limit discrepancies
- Guide other volunteers and staff at the checkout counter
- Assign roles for weighing of produce bagging of produce and more as necessary
- Keep checkout processes streamlined
- Provide excellent customer service and ensure a positive dignified shopping experience for customers.
- Help the market manager with accounting and sales reconciliation when necessary
- Help the market manager adopt mobile market model to adhere to any weather or safety protocols.
- Other related market duties as assigned by their supervisor
- Not required but ability to drive market van a plus.
Safety Sensitive Position if eligible with a Massachusetts drivers license.
Minimum Qualifications
- Comfortable and confident with leadership and delegation roles
- Cash Management
- Experience with pointofsale technology
- Customer service experience
Knowledge Abilities and Skills
Knowledge: Retail or customer service; understanding of food systems awareness of and sensitivity to cultural and linguistic diversity; produce knowledge (cooking farming health etc.
Abilities: Flexibility; working with many types of people; teamwork; comfort driving van preferred
Skills: Accounting; technology and computer literacy to learn and utilize Square debit/credit/EBT card processing software; bilingual or multilingual skills preferred
Work Environment
Work requires some agility and physical strength such as standing or walking most of the work period. This work requires lifting and carrying heavy objects. There may be need to stretch and reach to retrieve materials. Usually the work will require extended physical effort over a significant portion of the work day. Duties generally do not present occupational risk. Injury could occur however through employee failure to properly follow safety precautions or procedures. Examples of injury include bruises from falls cuts or burns or muscular strains from lifting pushing or carrying heavy equipment or work materials. May be exposed to wet/humid conditions extreme temperatures oils moving mechanical parts and/or potentially hazardous agents/chemicals. May be exposed to elevated noise levels.
Physical and Mental Requirements
The physical demands described here 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 positions essential functions.
Physical Skills
Work effort principally involves standing reaching bending and walking to perform work tasks with intermittent periods of sitting. May be required to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and push/pull up to 95 pounds.
Motor Skills
Must be able to frequently talk/listen grasp push reach stoop/kneel/crouch and use repetitive wrist/hand/finger movement. Must be able to regularly move and operate mechanical equipment. Minimal motor skills are also required for activities such as operating a telephone personal computer and/or office equipment.
Visual Skills
Visual demands include clarity of vision threedimensional vision precise handeye coordination and ability to identify and distinguish colors. Employee will also require visual skills to constantly read documents for general understanding and analytical purposes.
The City of Somerville is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color sex religion age national origin disability or any other protected category. Women minorities veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Auxiliary aids and services written materials in alternative formats and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities free of charge upon request. Persons with disabilities who need auxiliary aids and services for effective communication (i.e. CART ASL) written materials in alternative formats or reasonable modifications in policies and procedures in order to access the programs activities and meetings of the City of Somerville should please contact Adrienne Pomeroy atx 2059 or
PreEmployment Requirements for All Employees:
- MA Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) clearance
- Completion of ConflictofInterest Law Education training for municipal employees
Overview of Total Rewards:
- 4 weeks annual vacation for nonunion positions. Union positions vary by contract. Please note police officers are members of the SPEA union.
- Medical insurance through the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) 80 of premium costs paid by City
- Dental coverage low and high plans through Cigna
- Vision care through Vision Service Plan (VSP)
- Long term disability through Sun Life
- Group and voluntary life insurance through Boston Mutual
- Health Care and Dependent Care flexible spending through Benefit Strategies
- Deferred compensation plans through a choice of three vendors
- Free confidential services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provided by E4Health
- Annual cancer screening & wellness release
- Somerville Retirement Pension System
- Tuition reimbursement
- MBTA pass program
- FREE Blue Bikes membership
- Eligible employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
Benefits listed are for benefitseligible positions and the above information is meant to be a general overview of the benefit programs offered by the City of Somerville and not a binding contract.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Temp
