Dog Park Rufferee

Woof Y'all! We're looking for dog people with a love of hospitality and previous experience with dogs in an off-leash setting. Is that you? We want you on our team to create the experience our dogs deserve at Doggos!

This position is part-time and would be Saturdays/Sundays during the afternoon/evening and Wed-Friday evenings. Here's why you should work at Doggos:

• Fun work environment with other awesome dog people that just want to create a place worthy of our dogs
• Bring your dog to work
• Paid time off for your birthday
• Free employee membership to Doggos with monthly gift cards to spend while hanging out at Doggos
• Friends & family membership discount rates for your friends
• Staff snack and beverage area available daily, and quarterly staff socials and trips

Job Title: Rufferee/Dog Park Attendant

Main Purpose: To protect and improve the dog park experience at Doggos by offering warm hospitality while enforcing our house rules and behavior standards, and keeping all guest areas safe and clean.

Core Accountabilities:

• Enforcing house rules and dog park behavior standards
• Cleanliness and safety of guest areas
• Hospitality to human and dog guests and general customer service/assistance
• Conflict resolution in dog park
• Special projects as needed by management

Key Outputs/Results:

• Help Keep Doggos Fun and Welcoming: This means being good hosts to all our guests. This looks like helping guests with entry/exiting, helping dogs that are shy or nervous to find playmates or solutions to make them more comfortable, diffusing conflict and resolving issues between dog owners, and generally being helpful and kind to all.
• Help Keep Doggos Safe: This means assisting with new dog entry, managing interactions between dogs, reading body language and 'energy' of the play space, intervening or ejecting dogs where necessary as per the Dog Park Behavior Standard.
• Help Keep Doggos Clean: Ensure cleanliness and safety of the space through cleaning after potty accidents, managing slip risks and other safety hazards, re-setting tables and seating areas as they are vacated, removing trash, replacing chairs, etc. and performing daily janitorial tasks and side-work.
• Assist with special events and private event rentals as needed.
• Assist with additional tasks and projects outside of the scope of this description as needed.

Essential Knowledge:

• Love all kinds of dogs and would be comfortable in an off-leash play setting with large numbers of dogs of varying breeds, temperaments, sizes, and energy levels.
• Love making people feel welcomed and helping others to have fun.
• Have great people skills, including a strong ability to communicate clearly and with empathy, especially when addressing conflict.
• Enjoy being active and want to work with a great group of people in a fun, casual environment.
• Have knowledge of and/or previous experience with dog behavior and off-leash play.
• Are 21 and authorized to work in the United States

Education and Experience:

• Any education and experience that would allow for success in this role

Physical Requirements:

• Standing. Particularly for sustained periods of time. Approximate Duration 6-8 hours
• Walking. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Stooping. Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Pulling. Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting. Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position- to-position. Maximum Weight 30lbs Average Weight 15lbs
• Grasping. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

The visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception, and field vision.

• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned (i.e., custodial, food services, general laborer, etc.) or to make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e., security guard, inspection, etc.)

The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position.

• The worker is subject to environmental conditions, with some effective protection from the weather, but not necessarily temperature changes.
• Activities occur inside and outside.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $13.00 - $16.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• On-the-job training
• Paid training

Shift:

• 4 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Afternoon shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift

Work Days:

• Every weekend
• Holidays

Work Location: In person

Salary : $13 - $16