Professional Expert: Bookstore Coordinator
Professional Expert: Bookstore Coordinator
Salary: $83,200.00 Annually
Job Type: Professional Expert
Job Number: PROFEX-BC
Closing: Continuous
Location: Imperial, CA
Division: Arts & Letters/Learning Services
Representative Duties
BASIC FUNCTION:
Under direction of an assigned supervisor, assist faculty, staff, and students with bookstore coordination. Assist with transition to an online bookstore.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:
Primary Student Tasks:
- -Books
- -access codes
- -publisher platforms (Pearson, Cengage, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, etc.)
- -LMS integrations (Canvas login issues, invalid codes, etc.)
Primary Faculty Tasks:
- backorders
- missing inventory
- student delays
- higher costs
Primary Communication Tasks
- Explaining the new virtual model to students, faculty, staff, and departments.
- Answering general questions about:
- ordering
- returns
- rentals
- pricing
- availability
- digital access
- Communicating delays, system downtime, buyback information, or shipping issues.
- Maintaining relationships with department chairs to keep adoption data accurate.
- Coordinating with Follett on:
- inventory issues
- back-ordered items
- widespread access code problems
- publisher errors
- Answering walk-in questions all day long.
- Managing the first wave of campus confusion and redirecting people to the right resources.
- Students receiving incorrect or invalid digital access codes.
- Delays in Follett fulfillment or shipping.
- Mismatched ISBNs leading to wrong books being ordered.
- Faculty discovering textbook changes after classes have begun.
- Students not understanding rentals, returns, or digital rules.
- One-on-one assistance for departments submitting orders (course materials, course materials related, among other...)
- Assist departments with ordering bulk materials
- Design and manage small "Spirit Store" in the library.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE OF:
Bookstore procedures and practices
Excellent customer services skills
Knowledge of online book order process
The rudimentary functions and use of software systems and applications. Basic knowledge of Windows 10, or current, operating system.
Interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
Minimum Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Graduation from high school or equivalent and one year experience working in a bookstore environment.
Supplemental Information
ENVIRONMENT:
Office environment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Incorporated within one or more of the previously mentioned essential functions of this job description are essential physical requirements. The chart below indicates the percentage of time spent on each of the following essential physical requirements.
1. Seldom = Less than 25 percent 3. 3. Often = 51-75 percent
2. Occasional = 25-50 percent 4. Very Frequent = 76 percent and above
- 4 a .Ability to work at a desk, conference table, or in meetings of various configurations.
- 2 b. Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
- 4 c. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
- 4 d .Ability to see for the purpose of reading printed matter.
- 2 e. Ability to hear and understand speech at normal levels.
- 4 f. Ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand a normal conversation.
- 2 g. Ability to bend and twist.
- 2 h .Ability to lift 25 pounds.
- 2 I. Ability to carry 25 pounds.
- 4 j. Ability to operate office equipment, computer, or related peripherals.
- 3 k. Ability to reach in all directions.
To apply, visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/imperialedu/jobs/5186061/professional-expert-bookstore-coordinator
The Imperial Community College District is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and will implement a comprehensive program to put those principles into practice. It is the District's policy to ensure that all qualified applicants for employment and employees have full and equal access to employment opportunity, and are not subjected to discrimination in any program or activity of the District on the basis of ethnic group identification, race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender identity, physical disability, mental disability, ancestry, sexual orientation, language, accent, citizenship status, transgender status, parental status, marital status, economic status, veteran status, medical condition, ancestry, political or organizational affiliation, or on the basis of these perceived characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. The District will strive to achieve a workforce that is welcoming to men, women, persons with disabilities and individuals from all ethnic and other groups to ensure the District provides an inclusive educational and employment environment. Such an environment fosters cooperation, acceptance, democracy and free expression of ideas.
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