Cultural Retail Associate - Summer Student
Cultural Retail Associate - Summer Student
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28-04-2025
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Employment Opportunity: Cultural Retail Associate Summer Student
Location: Halifax NS
Salary Range: $19.00/ per hour
Employment Term: 8 weeks July 2025 August 2025 35 hours per week hours will vary including evenings and weekends)
Reports To: Strategic Development Manager
General Description:
One of the Mikmaw Native Friendship Centres Tourism Development initiatives Sitamuk Cultural Post located on the Kjipuktuk/Halifax waterfront is looking for One 1 Cultural Retail Associate Summer Student. The objective of the Cultural Post is to promote and sell authentic Mikmaq and Indigenous crafts and souvenirs while creating a hub to showcase the rich culture and history of our Mikmaq & Indigenous peoples. This position will be focused on providing an Indigenous student the opportunity to gain work experience while continuing their education. Applicants must be willing to work with a rostered schedule including evenings and weekends. This position is designated for students with Indigenous ancestry. Applicants must also be able to provide proof of postsecondary enrolment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promoting the cultural post as a project of the MNFC and its programs
- Process sales of products and services provided at the Cultural Post including transactions and cash handling.
- Understand and operate the point of Sale (POS) to:
- Process multiple types of transactions
- Track edit and add new stock and supplier information
- Understand and manage product detail and pricing
- Reconcile stock / count
- Assist with all opening and closing duties.
- helping ensure that the float and facility is secure.
- Assist with shop layout and interior design.
- Clean organize & maintain presentation of the interior and exterior of the cultural post. Assist with pricing and display
- Assist with marketing and promotion of:
- In store marketing and promotion
- Offsite marketing and vending events
- Development of promotional media and design
- Development and maintenance of social media marketing and promotion.
- Customer and market research
- May perform other related duties as required
Qualifications & Experience;
- Must be a youth (up to age 30
- Must have attended postsecondary from September 2024 to April 2025; and be returning to fulltime studies in the Fall of 2025
- Experience working in customer service
- Dependable and consistently works to uphold MNFC ethics and standards
- This position is designated for students of indigenous ancestry please selfidentify
Application Deadline: May 16th 2025 at 4:00pm
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel working within this job title.
The Mikmaw Native Friendship Centre is an equal opportunity employer; and complies with all fair employment practices laws. We are committed to providing a workplace free form unlawful discrimination and harassment and prohibit the same against employees applicants or other covered persons by coworkers supervisors managers or third parties based on a persons race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin ancestry age veterans status disability unrelated to job requirements ethnicity genetic information military service political affiliation marital status and pregnancy or other protected status.
Qualified Indigenous applicants will be given priority in accordance with the Aboriginal Employment Preference Policy of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The Mikmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) reserves the right to refuse all applications for employment. The MNFC will not assume any expenses related to this or any job application process included and not limited to travel relocation and application development.
*Only those applicants who are screened in for an interview will be contacted.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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