Career Details

MUSEUM

PART TIME MUSEUM ASSISTANT
posted : 03/10/2023
Status :
Closed
Close Date :
03/31/2023
Salary :
$12.23 PER HOUR
Type :
PART TIME-TEMPORARY
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General Job Description

GENERAL SUMMARY The Horry County Museum is a general history museum that focuses on the history, prehistory and natural history of Horry County, South Carolina. The Museum cares for a collection of artifacts and archival material and uses them in exhibits that tell stories of Horry’s past. The Museum also hosts family days, tours, and special programs. The Museum Assistant will perform a variety of complex administrative, secretarial and clerical duties in order to ensure effective and efficient office operations.

Duties for this Position
  • ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Provides customer service through greeting at the front door, telephone service, and email questions. - Answers questions concerning museum activities, programs and exhibits - Will give directions and information to visitors concerning their visit to the area, historical information, museum activities, programs, and community events. • Routes telephone calls and messages to the appropriate recipient. - Answers and directs incoming telephones calls to the museum and answers information calls concerning museum activities, programs and scheduling of tours. • Collects and records information relating to visitors information including visitor surveys and through the door attendance. - Will compile monthly reports relating to this data. • Will assist with the Museum newsletter and serve as liaison to the Museum Membership program. • Assist in weekly deposits of Museum sales with finance and keeps Excel records of deposits. • Reports accounts monthly to museum director. • Maintains museum sales; including purchases, products received, daily sales, weekly deposits, credit card and cash sales, inventory, taxes and monthly reports. • Prepares and labels museum gift shop products. • Assists in the preparation of annual budget. • Assists in preparation of Accommodations Tax Requests. • Enter requisitions and check requests into MUNIS. • Enter and track contracts into MUNIS • Perform Budget transfers • Manage personal p-card transactions and financial reporting. • Provides assistance to department management, co-workers and the general public as required. • Meets all departmental employee standards, safety standards, and county standards. Acts as safety Coordinator including checking fire extinguishers and maintaining safe work environment. • Assists other staff in programs, events, and projects. • Reports to immediate supervisor. • Will be responsible for being the contact and liaison with the community calendars and social media events. Will be responsible for maintaining accurate and up to date postings of museum and farm events on those calendars. • Will work with the Director of the Museum to compile, organize and mail out Board packets and acts as liaison to the Museum Board of Trustees. • Under certain circumstances, will be required to assist museum and farm staff at various events or shows including onsite and offsite events. • May schedule volunteers for front desk and other volunteer tasks. • Will perform other duties as assigned. • Maintains records relating to current docent and County approved volunteers.
Position Minimum Requirements
  • Physical Demands: Interpersonal Communication Skills Must have the ability to speak clearly and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes ability to convey information to general public and co-workers or assistants, and ability to understand and receive assignments and/or directions from supervisor. Develops and shares knowledge with managers, supervisors and staff effectively. Language Ability Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence. Requires ability to speak with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to read a variety of policy and procedure manuals, professional journals, various historical/scientific texts, etc. Intelligence Requires ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Must have the ability to learn and understand relatively complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret information received from various sources, and to learn and utilize new skills and information to improve job performance and efficiency. Verbal Aptitude Requires ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, and to follow and give verbal and written instructions. Must be capable of effective and efficient communication and have the ability to communicate with people from diverse backgrounds and educational levels. Numerical Aptitude Requires ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and to utilize mathematical formulas with ease to determine percentages and decimals, and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportions. Motor Coordination Requires hand/eye coordination to operate automated office equipment, farm equipment, motor vehicle, etc. Manual Dexterity Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination. Visual and or Color Discrimination Requires the ability to visually read information. Must have ability to differentiate colors and shades of color. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work may be performed in various environments including; museum, office, exhibit hall, storage facility, or field environment. Moderate to strenuous physical activity requiring handling of objects up to fifty pounds, ascend/descend ladders, maintaining a stationary position, and moving for more than five hours per day. Physical Demands: 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 essential functions. Must be able to exert up to fifty (50) pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, push, pull or otherwise move equipment or objects. Physical demands are in excess of those for sedentary work; work involves driving, moving, maintaining a stationary position for an extended time, position oneself to maintain equipment including under desks or in closets, pushing, pulling, ascend or descend stairs or ladders, balancing, feeding livestock.