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Housekeeping & Program Set-up
Job Description

 

General Responsibility:

To ensure and maintain the set-up, order, and cleanliness of major program areas and guest facilities.

Minimum Qualifications:

* Ability to take initiative, and seek/accept guidance and feedback as needed.
* Ability to establish work priorities, and respond to unanticipated needs, and work under pressure.
* Orderly, able to organize and handle lots of information and tasks.
* Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others.
* Good character, integrity, and flexibility.
* Enthusiasm, sense of humor, patience, self-motivated.
* Desire and ability to work in a rural, camp setting.
* Ability to work independently, and determine priority of multiple tasks, with minimal supervision.
* Ability to learn and do tasks as assigned.
* Conversant in English.
* Minimum age, 21.
* Holds a valid U.S. or Canadian drivers license.
* High School graduate with at least one year post-graduation work experience or education.
* Qualifies to serve as a live-in cabin counselor

Responsible to: Staff Director

Responsibilities:

1. Assist Programs Coordinator in the set-up and break down of program areas needed for the day's events. This may include:
a) setting up chairs;
b) arranging pallets;
c) hanging backdrops or decorations;
d) delivering program supplies to the appropriate area;
e) assisting the Stage Manager in setting up sound and light equipment;
f) returning equipment and supplies to proper storage at end of program.
2. Stock cabins and bathhouses with paper products, soap and cleaning supplies, checking on a weekly basis.
3. Deliver requested supplies to workshop areas and cabins on an as needed basis. (Items such as light bulbs, cups, tape, etc.)
4. Maintain the order and cleanliness of the linen/housekeeping supply room. Includes:
a) preparing guest house linens for delivery to laundry, and their sorting and proper storage upon return;
b) weekly inventory of supplies, turning in purchase order requests on a timely basis.
5. Prepare guest facilities, as and when needed. Includes:
a) changing bed linens;
b) dusting & vacuuming, cleaning surfaces of counters, refrigerator, coffee makers, etc.;
c) cleaning bathrooms;
d) stocking kitchenettes;
e) stocking room with linens and other supplies such as soap, bath towels, fresh flowers, etc.
6. Report maintenance needs to the facilities coordinator, as identified.
7. Report any sighted environmental hazards to facilities manager immediately.
8. Clean general program areas on a weekly basis. Includes:
a) vacuuming and general order;
b) communicating with workshop or program leader as needed as to their responsibility to maintain cleanliness of area.
9. Prepare linens for international youths at the beginning of session. Collect and send out used linens at end of session.
10. These may not be the only duties to be performed. Some duties may be reassigned, and others may be assigned as required.
11. Evaluate procedures and tasks at end of season, making recommendations for next season.

Essential Functions:

1. Physical ability to lift, unload, move supplies and light pieces of furniture (chairs, folding tables, VCR equipment).
2. Sensory ability to determine cleanliness of program areas and bathrooms.
3. Cognitive and physical ability to operate electrical and mechanical equipment safely (vacuum cleaner, lighting fixtures, VCRs, etc.).
4. Visual and auditory ability to identify and respond to environmental and other hazards as sighted during the fulfillment of tasks.
5. Cognitive and communication abilities to carry out multiple functions independently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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