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Position Summary
Reporting to the Bookstore Director, the Principal Clerk is responsible for purchasing, inventory management, customer service, and operational support across multiple departments. This role ensures right-sized inventory levels, creates engaging sales strategies, and oversees daily operations, including supervising student workers. Collaboration with other buyers and the Director is key to maintaining a successful and efficient bookstore environment.
Department Duties
Primary departments of responsibility include and are subject to change: School/Office Supplies, General Merchandise, Health Beauty Aids, Art Supplies, Technology and other departments as assigned.
o Collaborative work: Duties are performed collaboratively and in coordination with other buyers within the store.
o Merchandise selection: Purchase merchandise and maintain up-to-date knowledge of product trends. Find new merchandise and keep a regular planned rotation of new merchandise. determine the needs of local artists and public schools.
o Licensing: Choose artwork with approved marks for merchandise.
o Pricing: Determine appropriate levels of pricing.
o Inventory: Maintain appropriate inventory levels to align with sales trends and store needs. Select merchandise for markdowns, sales, and closeouts, and maintain a written markdown plan. Inventory decisions should be made in consultation with the Store Director and informed by reporting and analysis. Ensure inventory remains within reasonable levels to avoid overstocking while meeting customer demand.
o Product returns: Arrange for credits/replacements of overstock, damaged, and other items, including assisting with textbook returns.
o Sales floor displays: Setup and arrange displays for seasonal and other periods.
o Vendor relationships: Manage positive and productive relationships with vendors. Research and engage new vendors as needed. Assist with relationships, customer service and support sales through 3rd party emblematic partners.
o Sales strategies: Develop creative strategies to increase sales, including product placement advertising and other strategies.
o Data analysis: Review, create and use reports to make informed decisions.
o Website orders: Assist and provide backup to SLU Emblematic Apparel Buyer, including but not limited to fulfill and provide service for orders, organizing merchandise, help guests, and all other aspects of the department.
o Art kits: Prepare student art kits for art courses: confer with faculty, order, cost-out, and assemble kits.
o Special event related orders: Assist with orders for special events, such as graduation cap and gowns, and other merchandise.
Sales Associate Duties (expected of all Bookstore personnel)
o Customer service: Provide the highest level of customer service; ensure proper quality control of merchandise, maintain forms and cash levels, keep the checkout area neat and orderly. Maintain secure point-of-sale and monitor security system. Respond to customer needs, box or wrap merchandise, promote good will between Store/University and the customer/public. Check out customers at registers and support student workers at registers as needed.
o Provide first line sales floor security: Maintain awareness of potential shop lifting, respond appropriately to perceived shop lifting activities, respond to security gate alarms.
o Inventory: Assist in merchandise processing as requested; receive, price and stock merchandise, keep merchandise and displays neat and orderly; create in-store displays, help with advertising, actively participate in store merchandising meetings and strategy discussions. Perform periodic cycle counts and participate in the annual inventory process.
o Shipping/receiving: Prepare shipments and appropriate documentation for returns, mail orders, and other shipments; determine best method of and cost for shipping, maintain all logs, prepare reports as designated.
o Store maintenance: Supplement custodial service, including dusting, vacuuming, washing windows, mopping, and empty trash cans as needed. Perform routine maintenance on store fixtures and displays including painting and repair in emergency situations
o Textbook department: Provide clerical assistance in the receiving, returns, physical inventory, counter clerk service, semester-end book buyback.
o Off-location sales: Participate in off-location sales events (University readings, etc.)
o Store supplies: Order and track specified store supplies as directed. Including wrapping paper, ribbons, bags, and boxes.
o Perform other related duties as required.
Shift Manager Duties
o Opening and Closing: Perform regularly scheduled shift manager duties including having complete responsibility for opening and closing the store, as scheduled by Director.
o Respond to all store issues: Enforce store policies and procedures while maintaining a high level of customer service.
o Start of the day duties: Responsible for opening the safe and maintaining proper cash levels in all registers. Ensure that each register is prepared for the start of business.
o Supervision: Supervise student employees including assignment of tasks and provide any necessary training.
Disclaimer
· This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor.
· The University reserves the right to add to or revise an employee’s job duties at any time at its sole discretion.
Workdays/Schedule: Fulltime (37.5 hrs./week + occasional overtime), Variable Monday-Sunday, 12 months
- 23 Romada Drive, Canton, NY 13617
- 6/16/25
The Adirondack Semester is a unique program of place-based environmental education, involving 3.5 months of residence and academic study at a base camp in the Adirondacks, two extended backcountry trips, and a variety of outdoor activities. The program situates students on the boundary between modern civilization and wild “nature” and encourages them to study and reflect on their relationship with each of these and on the choices, we must make to preserve natural processes. Faculty members commute to the site, an off-grid yurt village, to teach a full university semester, including cultural and natural history of the Adirondacks, philosophy of nature, land use, stewardship, and Adirondack writing. (See http://web.stlawu.edu/adksemester/.) This is a full-time, six-month appointment beginning July 7, 2025. The salary is $5,033.82 per month.
The Assistant Director will work under the supervision of the Director and in collaboration with one other Assistant Director and will live on site 5 days and 4 nights per week. The two Assistant Directors share the following responsibilities.
Academics
- Teach a 1-credit “Ethical Leadership in the Adirondacks” course
- Help plan, coordinate and mentor students through the Capstone Internship, a 2-week experiential internship that takes place during the final weeks of the semester.
- Help to foster critical reflection on and discussion of the mission, goals and guiding principles of the program
Administration: (Communication, Logistics & Fiscal Responsibilities)
- Responsible for communication with faculty, staff, students, and parents
- Recommend and oversee annual purchase of new equipment and supplies
- Set up and oversee food purchasing including a CSA, grocery store accounts and orders through dining services
- Coordinate and help plan orientation, the semester schedule and weekly calendar
- Help students access resources such as medical care, mail, and technology
Oversight: (Risk Management, Facility & Community)
- Primary responsibility for updating and observing the best risk management practices
- Set up and maintain the program site including, yurts, buildings, solar array, composting toilet, and other infrastructure
- Facilitate and develop a living and learning community that is physically and emotionally safe for all to enjoy while participating in community activities such as cooking meals, chores, and community meetings
Trip Leader & Planner:
- Plan, organize, and lead two 5–7-day backcountry hiking and canoe expeditions
- Plan and lead weekend outdoor activities for students during semester
- Help to facilitate group culture and activities in the yurt village
- The Assistant Directors are expected to comfortably operate motor vehicles, including a 12-passenger van with a canoe trailer, on unmaintained roads. Assistant Directors are expected to provide their own transportation to and from work sites. Successful candidates will also be able to lift up to 50lbs and travel on foot up to 8 miles per day.
The anticipated start date for this six-month appointment will be July 7, 2025. This appointment may be renewable in successive years. Compensation package will include salary, health insurance, and rustic room and board on-site during the 3.5 months of the base camp residence and expeditions (August 18 – November 2, 2025).
Individuals who identify with groups historically underrepresented in the field of outdoor education are strongly encouraged to apply.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- Wilderness First Responder and CPR
- Demonstrated experience as an outdoor educator and trip leader
Preferred Qualifications
- The ability to work independently and with a group, identify tasks and complete without significant oversight
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, team and community building skills
- A combination of administrative, teaching, outdoor leadership and backcountry experience.
- Ability to serve as a model for students, demonstrating a positive attitude, tolerance, patience, openness to new ideas and application of the program’s environmental ethic.
- A familiarity with and an appreciation for the role and mission of a small, private liberal arts institution
- Familiarity with canoes and boats and/or professional canoe instruction certifications (ACA)
- Basic handy person/carpentry skills
Interested applicants must apply online at https://employment.stlawu.edu/postings/4051 uploading all required materials which are defined in the “special instructions to applicant” section. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to Jacob McCoola, Director of Outdoor Studies & Adirondack Semester, jmccoola@stlawu.edu.
All offers of employment are contingent upon the finalist successfully passing a background (including criminal records) check.
- Full Time
- July 7, 2025
- $1,258.46 Week
- 23 Romoda Drive, Canton, NY 13617
- 5/21/25
St. Lawrence University invites applications for a Staff Accountant. Reporting to the Controller, the Staff Accountant will apply accounting principles to complete daily, monthly, and yearly accounting tasks to support the Business Office in producing accurate and complete financial reports.
Primary Responsibilities include:
- Prepare, process and analysis of monthly and year-end accounting entries for assigned areas of responsibility such as auxiliary operations, foreign programs, fixed assets.
- Bank reconciliations.
- Reconcile and analyze general ledger accounts (deferred gifts, clearing accounts, inventory, liability, deferred revenues etc.); create and post accounting entries as required.
- Administer non-student accounts receivable or loans receivable including billing and collection functions.
- Provide backup for payroll manager during vacation or other absence periods.
- Review agency account balances. Perform analysis on overspent accounts and communicate with departmental staff to bring the accounts into balance.
- Work collaboratively with other departments across campus to ensure GAAP Compliance.
- Prepare annual IRS tax reporting statements (e.g. 1042s, 1098 mortgage interest statement) and be knowledgeable of reporting rules to ensure compliance.
- Assist in the fiscal year-end close process and related audit workpaper preparation.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
This is an on-site position in Canton, N.Y. with the potential for hybrid/remote flexibility. The salary range is $62,000 - $65,000 annually.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field and 2 years of experience.
- Working knowledge of general accepted accounting principles.
- Excel proficiency.
- Must be able to maintain discretion when working with highly sensitive and confidential information.
- Must be capable of working collegially with a diverse group of faculty, staff, and students.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Exceptions to these minimum qualifications may be made for candidates with unique credentials, which may include those listed under the “preferred qualifications”.
Preferred Qualifications
- Work experience in higher education and/or non-profits.
- Knowledge of payroll policies and basic understanding of state and federal employment laws.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to exercise good judgment and decision making within assigned authority.
- Strong prioritization skills to consistently meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to use financial systems and information.
- Strong proficiency of Microsoft software, particularly Excel.
Interested applicants must apply online at https://employment.stlawu.edu/postings/4054 uploading all required materials which are defined in the “special instructions to applicant” section. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Questions about the position may be directed to Sintia Marshall, Controller, smarshall@stlawu.edu.
All offers of employment are contingent upon the finalist successfully passing a background (including criminal records) check.
- Full Time
- Immediately
- $62,000-$65,000 Year
- 23 Romoda Drive, Canton, NY 13617
- 5/21/25
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