Part-time Shop Assistant

1 week ago


Dartmouth, Canada Kept Gifts & Housewares Inc. Full time

Kept is an independently owned & operated boutique located in downtown Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. We have been in business for almost 10 years, and we have just been acquired by Paper Hearts

Our goal at Kept is to make gift giving easy, as well as to make bricks & mortar shopping fun again With a little something for everyone, Kept carries a hand-picked selection of home décor items, jewelry and accessories, paper goods, items for children & babies & locally made confections.

Our mission is to bring you uniquely well-crafted gifts and housewares that you will love for years to come. Sourcing both locally & internationally, we pay great attention to choosing our wares, carefully curating our shop with personality & design. The details are important to us because we know they are important to you.

**Our core concepts that we were founded on are**:

- We are family owned & operated
- Superior customer service standards
- Maintain at least 50% locally-made goods
- Support local charities
- Share goods made to last
- Provide eco-friendly alternatives
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**ABOUT PAPER HEARTS (Which Owns Kept Shop)**:
At Paper Hearts**, we’re passionate about changing the way the world feels. We’re a seaside stationery & design studio that makes whimsical treasures with love, care & salty air for over 300 retail boutiques across Canada.

Our team also runs Paper Hearts Post Office,a snail mail collective that licenses the work of local artists for the Sobeys family of stores across the country. In addition to that, we run a small stationery shop in the North End of Halifax, and we create graphic arts, branding assets & custom card programs for clients across Canada.
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- **OPPORTUNITY**: Shop Assistant (1 year contract, 3-4 days per week)
- **START DATE**: Monday, June 19th
- **AVAILABILITY**:

- _Thurs - Mon from 10 - 6 June 2023 - August 2023 (Sat - Mon)_
- _September 2023 - December 2023 (Thurs or Fri - Mon)_
- _January 2024 - July 2024 (Sat - Mon)_
- **COMPENSATION RANGE**: Starting at $16 per hour + 4% vacation accrual (equivalent of 2 weeks paid vacation for FTE), full health & dental benefits for all employees that work over 20 hours per week.
- **APPLY BY**: Friday, June 9th, 2023

**ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Working primarily at Kept Shop, located at 75 King Street in Downtown Dartmouth.
- Assisting customers, answering questions & providing a welcoming & delightful experience in the shop.
- Ordering, unpacking & organizing inventory as it arrives.This includes breaking down cardboard boxes and putting them in the underground parking area, as well as taking out garbage, paper and plastic recycling daily.

This may mean moving boxes from our storage unit to our back room from time to time, so some light lifting is required.
- Keeping the shop and the back office space clean, organized & functional.
- Fulfilling online orders & arranging for Post Office pick ups/drop offs.
- Receiving inventory, pricing products & merchandising store displays.
- Cleaning the shop at the end of your shift to ensure that we keep a welcoming, safe & clean environment for our staff & customers.This includes regularly sanitizing the store, vacuuming, dusting, mopping, cleaning windows, staff bathroom, etc.
- Working in Shopify to create orders, track inventory, update our webstore, etc.
- Be responsible for opening & locking up the store.
- Depositing cash, assisting with payroll and/or other administrative tasks (as required)
- Creating *some* photo and video content for social media (mostly story shop tours, and other simple requests). We do have a content team to do more formalized shoots and product photography.
- Must work well independently (you will occasionally be on shifts alone).

**WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO**:

- Is reliable, trustworthy & dedicated to Kept's vision & supporting our team.
- Wants to change the way the world feels.
- Loves Downtown Dartmouth & all it has to offer
- Loves small businesses, makers, dreamers & shopping local.
- Loves supporting our community & charities in creative ways.
- Has an **ALL IN,** open & flexible attitude. (_Retail is ever-changing_).
- Wouldn't dream of saying "that's not my job" _... like... please no._
- Loves working as part of a team, but also is comfortable working alone.
- Is a self-starter & seeks solutions before coming to management with problems to solve.
- Takes their work seriously, but doesn’t take themselves too seriously (we like to be silly & have a good time at work).
- Is detail oriented, thorough & cares about the work they put out in the world.
- Is friendly, loves people, is polite, enthusiastic & loves to work hard & have fun

**ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS**:

- Must provide a criminal background check.
- Must be comfortable taking your breaks at your own discretion, when there are no customers in the store (as you will occasionally be working alone). It may not be possible to schedule your bre


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