Opportunities at Goodwill Houston- Volunteer Roles (copy)

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Description

Pulling Position:

  • Sales floor- removing clothes from the racks that did not sell the prior week or as directed by management
  • Inventory items per z-rack pulled from the sales floor
  • Placing clothing on the baler

Housekeeping:

  • Cleaning unattended areas, restrooms and windows
  • Organizing racks
  • Removing stickers off the floor
  • Trash & dumpster clean up (volunteers cannot operate the crusher or compactor)

Line-Boosting: (especially during busy hours)  

  • Assisting customers with removing hangers from clothing while waiting in line

Bagger & Cashier Assistant (cashier is always present):

  • Removing hangers from the clothes
  • Folding purchase items and placing them in shopping bags
  • Putting items in shopping bag or box
  • Wrapping items (as needed)

Assistant to Pricer:

  • Removing items from the duros
  • Polishing furniture
  • Assisting with testing & cleaning electronics

Assistant to DA:

  • Sorting items received from Donors (volunteers do not engage with customers)

Soft line:

  • Cutting price tags
  • Hanging clothes

Re-Organizing store:

  • Making sure that electronics & furniture have rubber bands (price)
  • Topper maintenance, cleaning & reorganizing merchandise
  • Making sure items are at designated place

Example: lamps with lamps, radio with radios, etc.

  • Floor check- making sure no items are on the floor that could cause an accident
  • Shoe pair; finding shoe pairs and placing them together with a rubber band
  • Arranging furniture

Fitting-room assistant:                                                                                                       

Making sure dressing rooms remain clean and clothing is re-hung

Re-Organizing Racks Sale floor position:

  • Organizing clothes by their colors
  • Hanger hunting- taking empty hangers from racks

 Sorting:   

  • Organizing clothing according to gender, age & size

Baler:

  • Place clothes on operator to make a bale (Volunteers are not allowed to press the “START” button

Book Scanner:

  • Scanning books by categories
  • Placing books on sales-floor

Greeters: 

  • Greeting customers with a high value of customer service

Door Greeters/Monitors:*  

  • Monitors the number of customers entering and exiting the store to maintain occupancy count in compliance with safety guidance

Pre-Sorters:*

  • Performs a quick sort of hard and soft donations to pull out items that do not meet quality standards

General Sanitizer/Cleaning Crew Member:*

  • Sanitize shopping carts, baskets, door handles and cash register areas and other high-touch items throughout the day

Details

Get Connected Icon Volunteers should be between the ages of 16 and 99.
Get Connected Icon Is Family Friendly
Get Connected Icon Is Not Outdoors
Get Connected Icon Is Wheelchair Accessible