Farm Store Assistant in Cold Spring, New York at Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming

We are seeking a dependable, enthusiastic, and food-loving Farm Store Assistant to join our team. The Farm Store Assistant will work alongside the Farm Store and CSA Coordinator to help run the store's everyday operations, creating an enjoyable shopping experience for our customers. The right candidate will have an understanding of food and farm businesses and an ability to work in a fast-paced setting, while maintaining excellent hospitality. Prior experience in retail, particularly food retail, is strongly preferred.

The Glynwood Farm Store is a mission-driven local foods store and retail destination, located in a beautiful setting on Glynwood's working farm and 250-acre, historic property. The Farm Store serves as both a welcome center and gateway to the public (visitors, supporters, customers), as well as a reliable food access point for our community. At the shop, we sell our own grown USDA-Organic vegetables, nose-to-tail cuts of Animal-Welfare-Approved meat, and distinctive products from regional farms.

Essential Job Duties

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Opening the Store: Stocking shelves, fronting merchandise, creating visually striking displays, keeping a tidy store space, cleaning as necessary.

Running the Store: Staffing register and processing customer transactions through POS system (Square), greeting customers, mingling with shoppers, educating around Glynwood's organizational work and mission, educating around Farm Store products and sharing culinary knowledge, restocking as needed

Closing the Store: Restocking shelves, breaking down produce displays and storing produce accordingly, donating leftover perishable product, cleaning as necessary, taking out trash and recycling, closing out of register.

High level of attention to detail: Helps maintain back-of-house product data and support front-of-house labeling systems, including barcodes, price labels, product signage, and inventory updates.

Additional tasks: Organizing walk-in, maintaining shrink log and assisting with CSA questions and needs.

Competencies

Ability to provide high-level of customer service

Confidence in cooking with meat, vegetables, and locally-sourced ingredients

Have excellent communication and organization skills

Proficient in Google Suite

Ability to lift 50 pounds regularly

Administrative Responsibility

Submit weekly timesheets and request time off via online application

Attend trainings in administrative procedures and safety as required

Work Environment & Physical Demands

Bending and stretching will be required. Must be able to lift 50 pounds regularly.

Work will be primarily located indoors in Glynwood’s Farm Store, but may require spending some time outdoors.

Travel and Weekend Work

No travel required

Shifts primarily take place during weekends

Regular Work Hours: Thursday 2pm-5pm I Fridays 11am-4pm