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Published 01-10-2024
Deadline: 07-10-2024

 

Activity and rental center employee: part time work for outdoors enthusiasts

We look for outdoor enthusiasts for part-time work (within flexible time frames, around the weekends or every second weekend, 1, 2 or 3 days a week) with start 28th of November and end 30th of April.

About work

We can keep you stimulated: work offers various tasks related to direct customer service – renting out sport equipment, taking care of the equipment, bookings of activities, tourist information, maintenance of the site.

Main operations are focused on renting equipment out, advising our guests on local destinations for their activities, instructing guests on how to use the equipment and where to go to make the best of their holidays, sale of activities and merchandise in our shop, preparing reservations, keeping order and cleaning (inside and outside of the shop) and winter clothes /skis /splitboards and other equipment maintenance.

Who is this work for

We welcome students, also high school students, people who would like to try their skills in new area, and all outdoor passionate individuals who would like to have challenging and fun weekend work.

We look for people who have a passion for outdoor activities and work with people in the first place. We work in a team and need people with various skills – from great knowledge of ski touring and splitboarding gear to social personalities happy to answer our visitors questions for a few hours every day.

We look for both: people who spend each evening outdoors and can always say how the conditions in the mountains are right now and people who like to work inside and are not necessarily active, but know Tromsø area and like to answer questions and help with planing adventures for the others.

However if you never worked with customer service and have no knowledge of winter activities, equipment, or Tromsø, this will not work for you. We have a lot of focus on service quality, all our employees need to enjoy working with people and have good communication skills, be ready to improvise and assist others.

Position Requirements:

  • Interest and personal experience in outdoor activities

  • Teamwork, organization and control skills, attachment to the details, and good memory are essential for this work.

  • We will prioritize candidates with good knowledge of the Tromsø area, winter equipment, outdoor activities and local experience, but if you are keen to educate yourself prior to work start we are looking forward to receiving your application.

  • Good English is written and spoken proficiency is necessary. Norwegian, German, French, or Spanish will be an advantage but is not required.

  • Enjoying and used to working in a flexible international environment.

  • Creative and solution-oriented, positive attitude to work, colleagues, and customers.

We are interested to know your knowledge/experience in cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, ski touring, sales, sports equipment, customer service and other relevant experience.

We provide extensive training but cannot teach you «everything» so tell us what your strong points are, why you think you will fit our team.

Working Scheme

For the part-time position: we need the most help during weekends and on some occasions in the morning 9.30-11 or afternoons 15-17.30.

We have good experience in making it easy to combine work with us with studies or other part-time work, especially for students who look for weekend work.

Tromsø Outdoor AS has other open positions for the coming winter, we look for

  • Outdoor activity guides (xc ski and snowshoe activities) for German speaking candidates

  • driver with D1 or D driving licence and valid YSK.

If you think your skills, experience, and interests match work on various positions we have open, do not miss to mention that in your covering letter and let us know what work you are the most interested in.

Applications from candidates not meeting the position requirements listed above will not be answered and will not be considered in the recruitment process.

 

 

DIVERSE INFO

Arbeidsgiver Tromsø Outdoor AS orgnr: 894373652
Kort om arbeidsgiver

Tromsø Outdoor AS has been providing professional guiding and rental services in the Tromsø area since 2006.

In 2017 we decided to develop a bike and ski workshop in addition to servicing our own rental equipment, and started offering repair services to local customers in Tromsø.

We are a team inspired by Norwegian nature and cultural values. We work to develop a professional community where we can improve our skills and performance.

Our main focus is on service quality, local cooperation and creating a good working environment within the company. Last winter our team consisted of 25 people from 15 countries – 10 of them are permanent employees. For the summer we were a team of 15 people.

Now we are looking forward to welcoming a few new colleagues who will join us this winter as guides or in the rental center.

Webside https://www.tromsooutdoor.no
Bransje Reiseliv og mat
Yrke Reiseliv, hotell og overnatting
Sted TROMSØ (Adresse: Fredrik Langes gate 14 Postnr: 9008)
Stillingstype Sesong Deltid Antall stillinger: 2
Sektor Privat
Krav Unknown
Tiltredelse 28-11-2024
Søknadsfrist 07-10-2024


Kilde: NAV stillingsannonser
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