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EMPLOYMENT

To apply for a listed position, complete the online employment application form (below)
and click the submit button.

Or, print out the employment application (pdf), complete it, and email it to humanresources
or mail to: MCHS, 601 South Stonestreet Avenue, Rockville MD 20850

Current open positions

Thrift store manager
MCHS is seeking an experienced general manager for its large, busy thrift store. The manger will bring solid retail management experience, and ensure excellent customer service; a well-organized, clean and efficient retail operation; smooth donation intake, sorting, pricing and displaying and creating a fun place to shop. The manager also will oversee increases in store revenue year over year. The manager also will be hands-on with the team, as well as work with corporate management to improve and advance store operations and profitability. The manager must be flexible and able to manage a diverse group of employees and volunteers who handle a broad-ranging and ever-changing, donated store inventory.

The ideal candidate will have five to ten years of experience as a retail manager, with experience in managing a thrift store a significant plus. Must be willing to regularly work on weekends.

Success with using/overseeing online sales through EBay or other reseller platform very desirable. This position is a hands-on member of the store team, able to make smart, quick decisions, lift 50 lbs. and work standing all day. The successful candidate also will pass a mandatory background check.

Other responsibilities include:
- Ensuring that merchandise is moving efficiently and effectively from donation to sale,
- Maintaining high standards of cleanliness, customer service, merchandise displays, and merchandise rotation.
- Ensuring staff is efficiently performing their duties, and that customers are receiving friendly, attentive service.
- Addressing customer issues in a professional manner, and finding resolutions.
- Providing staff and volunteers with oversight, assistance and guidance.
- Supervising and ensuring thorough and accurate cash drawer openings and closings
- Establishing, following and enforcing safety standards for staff, volunteers and customers
- Working with the landlord regarding any building issues.
Employee Benefits
Health Insurance
Elective dental, vision and Aflac coverage
Paid life insurance
Thrift store sales and receiving clerk
Large, busy thrift store in Rockville, MD seeks hardworking, reliable individual for store clerk and part-time cashier. Will consider full- or part-time.

Duties include, but are not limited to:
- receiving, sorting, cleaning and pricing incoming inventory
- stocking store displays
- helping to maintain a clean, organized sales floor.
- Other duties may include accepting donations, cleaning the store, and assisting customers.
The successful candidate will be a flexible, positive, energetic and proactive team player, as well as a fast learner who can work independently. Availability to work on weekends is a must, and ability to lift at least 50 lbs. is a requirement of the position. Experience in a retail environment, especially in a thrift or second-hand store, is highly desirable. Retail cashier experience is required.

Full- or part-time position

The store operator, the Montgomery County Humane Society, offers benefits for full-time employees that include medical / dental / vision / life insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, free parking and four paid holidays.

Please reply with cover letter describing interests or specific expertise that you would bring to the merchandising of a highly varied store inventory, along with wage requirements and resume, to MCHS, 601 S. Stonestreet Avenue, Rockville MD 20850 or email to: jbaquero@mchumane.org

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Montgomery County Humane Society, Inc. (MCHS) is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants, based upon job related qualifications, will be considered without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, sexual orientation or preference, physical or mental disability or any other classification proscribed under applicable federal, state or local law.

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ADDENDUM TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’S EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION

I understand that the position I am applying for may/will require me to:

• Lift between 15 – 60 lbs.

• Restrain a 65 lb. animal

• Stand for long periods of time

• Pass a police background check

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I certify that the facts contained in this application are true and correct. I understand that, in the event of my employment by the MCHS, I shall be subject to dismissal if any information that I have given in the application is false or misleading or if I have failed to give any information herein requested, regardless of the time elapsed after discovery.

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EMPLOYMENT

Current open positions

Thrift store manager

Thrift store sales and receiving clerk

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