Career Opportunities
Operations Manager, Part-time, Temporary (posted 9/26/18)
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Do you like serving the community? Are you good with people? Are you a creative, flexible problem solver? Do you have organizational skills and know something about tools? You may be the right person to oversee operations for the ToolBox Project, a growing Eugene nonprofit located on the Friendly Street Church of God property, 2235 Friendly St., Eugene, 97405.
The ToolBox Project serves the Eugene-Springfield area by providing members with low-cost access to building, repair, auto, and garden tools to transform their homes, businesses, and neighborhoods. Our goal is to help individuals, families, and neighborhoods thrive by creating a space and service, so we can share, build, and grow together.
Toolbox Project is an Equal Opportunity Organization. We encourage women, people of color, queer/LGBTQ+ people, and people of other diverse experiences and backgrounds to apply.
Duties
Volunteer & Intern Management
Hours & compensation
Please email a cover letter and resume to humanresources@eugenetoolboxproject.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with an estimated start date of November 1, 2018.
Final candidates can expect to have references checked and background check conducted.
Download .pdf job description
Do you like serving the community? Are you good with people? Are you a creative, flexible problem solver? Do you have organizational skills and know something about tools? You may be the right person to oversee operations for the ToolBox Project, a growing Eugene nonprofit located on the Friendly Street Church of God property, 2235 Friendly St., Eugene, 97405.
The ToolBox Project serves the Eugene-Springfield area by providing members with low-cost access to building, repair, auto, and garden tools to transform their homes, businesses, and neighborhoods. Our goal is to help individuals, families, and neighborhoods thrive by creating a space and service, so we can share, build, and grow together.
Toolbox Project is an Equal Opportunity Organization. We encourage women, people of color, queer/LGBTQ+ people, and people of other diverse experiences and backgrounds to apply.
Duties
Volunteer & Intern Management
- Recruit, train, place, schedule, supervise and support volunteers and interns
- Take a personal interest in volunteers and interns, and assure they are recognized and thanked, and that their experience and input is used to continuously improve the ToolBox Project
- Develop and maintain systems (or work closely with volunteers who perform these tasks) for screening, acquiring, sorting, preparing, loaning and returning tools and other materials
- Inspect tools and perform simple maintenance – work with Tool Maintenance Volunteers for more complex repair and maintenance issues
- Oversee building and site maintenance
- Develop and maintain a safety program and an emergency preparedness program including appropriate written materials, permissions, and supplemental training & resources. These tasks may be assigned to an intern with supervision by the Operations Manager
- Work with ToolBox Project Board and Fundraising Committee to develop and implement new revenue streams
- Develop strategic initiatives in collaboration with board and committees
- Conduct feasibility studies for program expansion, including educational opportunities and satellite locations
- Establish and maintain systems for organizational materials and archives
- Work with ToolBox Project treasurer and bookkeeper to provide bank deposit and expense receipts in a timely and accurate manner
- Keep ToolBox Project current on all administrative tasks related to insurance, 501(c)3 designation, banking, government compliance, etc
- Maintain good relationships with Friendly Street Church of God staff and members, adjacent neighbors, volunteers, ToolBox Project members and donors
- Facilitate collaboration with other groups to further mission of community-building through sharing and access
- Improve participation by those who may be underserved by the ToolBox project
- Produce social media content
- Ability to maintain a pleasant, professional, and service-oriented environment
- Be able to model expected behavior for volunteers, colleagues, and promote teamwork
- Broad knowledge of common hand and power tools, with an ability to safely operate and demonstrate their use
- Proven leadership skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must be able to speak, read and write English legibly
- Bilingual a plus: ToolBox Project is determined to offer its services and future programming to as many people in the Eugene-Springfield community as possible. This includes people whose first language is Spanish and not English. We are taking steps to make our library more accessible and welcoming to community-members from the Latinx community, and therefore strongly encourage candidates who speak fluent Spanish and have experience providing programming to people whose first language is Spanish to apply
- Ability to work independently and take direction
- Ability to maintain positive, productive attitude with members and other stakeholders
- Basic math skills
- Experience with website builders such as Weebly or Squarespace, and familiarity with social media
- Lifting 10-30 pounds frequently, 50 pounds occasionally
- Hours: Saturdays 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM and Tuesdays/Thursdays 4:30 PM - 7:15 PM, remaining hours are negotiable
- Standing, stooping, bending, walking, and carrying
Hours & compensation
- 24-27 hours per week
- $18.00 per hour
- Position is grant funded through March of 2019, with the hope of funding it longer
- PTO Policy is included
- There currently are no health or retirement benefits attached to this position
- The ToolBox Project has a small office and workshop space, which the operations manager may use as his/her main place of work - telecommuting outside of open library hours is also acceptable.
Please email a cover letter and resume to humanresources@eugenetoolboxproject.org. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with an estimated start date of November 1, 2018.
Final candidates can expect to have references checked and background check conducted.