Summer Fws - Student Asst - Botanical Gardens

Hourly Wage: $11/hour

Duties:
Customer service: Greet visitors and respond to their questions.
Financial transactions: Make financial transactions; balances transactions at the end of the day; prepares bank statements, makes deposits.
Inventory/Operations: Assists staff in maintaining, sales, and propagation of plant stock

Average Number of Hours per Week: 20 hours

Schedule: Flexible during our normaql hours of operation: 8 am - 4 pm. Saturdays are mandatory except for excused absences approved by Gardens Director.

Minimum Qualifications:

Applicant must have a current Federal Work Study (FWS) award for the current academic year in order to apply for this position. Applicants are asked to demonstrate proof of their FWS award by saving their “Award Overview” screen from OASIS as a print screen and then pasting it into a Word document and upload it as part of any additional required application materials. If other documents (in addition to your FWS award) are required as part of your application, you must upload ALL documents as one document.

**To access OASIS, log in to single sign-on at my.usf.edu > enter OASIS > choose “Financial Aid” from the menu > choose “My Award and Loan Information” > click the “Award Overview” tab > save this page. **Note: This page will include applicant’s loan, scholarship, and grant information.

Standard Learning Objectives:

As a result of this position, student will be able to:

• Demonstrate basic employability skills such as: timeliness to work, appropriate dress, interpersonal communication, and time management
• Communicate transferable and functional skills to prospective employers
• Receive and solicit feedback from supervisor and effectively apply feedback on the job
• Demonstrate his or her professional brand (identity)
• Assess workplace and demonstrate how personal talents, skills, and knowledge fit into the employer’s goals, mission, and vision

Contact Information for Questions about Recruitment:Craig Huegel, PhD, USF Botanical Gardens Director, [email protected], 727-422-6583

Additional Information for Applicants: This is primarily an office position, but requires some outdoors work as needed. This is a botanical garden so the applicant should be prepared fort this, apprecaite plants and be interested in working with the public and as part of a team.