Opportunities at Goodwill Houston- Volunteer Roles (copy)

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