Student Union

Available Positions

Red's Pub Staff

Red’s Pub Staff check IDs of all patrons at the University’s on-campus pub. Red’s Pub Staff work as bar backs, hosts/hostesses, and food expediters, while also monitoring the Pub’s guests, and assisting in the execution of events held within the Pub.

Knowledge & Skills Required

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff and University guests. Persons in this position must be able/should possess:

  • Be responsible and professional
  • Be positive and resourceful
  • Possess strong verbal and writing skills
  • Provide quality customer service
  • Take pride in their position and the place in which they work
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team

Responsibilities

  • Monitor pub area & its patrons
  • Check IDs using scanning equipment
  • Assist with the retrieval and distribution of customers’ orders
  • Clean & maintain Pub while providing quality service
  • Assist the Graduate Assistant on Duty at special events in the Pub
  • Provide assistance with the general operations of Red’s Pub
  • Other duties as requested

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Student Union Manager in Training (MIT)

The Student Union Manager in Training is responsible for the general supervision of the Student Union facilities and all of the services it provides. They perform vital tasks in and out of the Student Union office including supervising the Shuttle service, Red’s Pub, Hawley Lounge and the Campus Concierge.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff, and University guests. Persons in this position must:

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Be positive and resourceful
  • Possess strong verbal and writing skills
  • Actively work to solve problems
  • Take initiative
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Possess strong managerial skills
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team
  • Attend weekly SUM meeting & mandatory training before start of every semester
  • Have been awarded work-study by Student Financial Assistance

Responsibilities

  • Assisting with and overseeing the daily operations of the Student Union
  • Cover no-shows or late workers
  • Oversees all Student Union Student Employees
  • Manages Sacred Heart Shuttle services, Hawley Lounge, Red’s Pub, Student Union Office and the Campus Concierge
  • Perform rounds of the Academic Center and Red’s Pub during shift hours
  • Provide additional support for special events
  • Other duties and responsibilities as required

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Red's Pub Server

Red’s Pub Servers serve food and drinks to the University’s students and staff who visit the pub. The Servers will be T.I.P.S. certified as they are bartenders who serve beer and wine to the patrons who are of legal drinking age. The Servers at Red’s monitor Pub guests, and provide excellent customer service to the pub’s customers. The Red’s Pub Servers oversee events held within the Pub and maintain the cleanliness of the establishment.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff, and University guests. Persons in this position must:

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Possess strong verbal and writing skills
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Have previous restaurant experience (preferred, but not required)
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team
  • Responsible for safe and responsible handling/serving of alcohol

Responsibilities

  • Serve beer & wine to patrons of legal drinking age (if certified)
  • Take food & beverage orders & distribute accordingly
  • Monitor Pub area & its patrons
  • Provide assistance with the general operations of Red’s Pub
  • Maintain cleanliness of Pub areas during operating hours & at the end of every shift
  • Other duties as requested

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Student Union Accountant

The Student Union Accountant is responsible for the general supervision of the Student Union purchase orders and daily reconciliation of all cash bags and deposits. This team member is also responsible for all accounting duties for all Student Union operations, as well as recording daily logs of all activity, collect weekly reports, and submit monthly reports for all areas.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff, and University guests. Persons in this position must:

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Possess understanding of budgeting, the purchasing process, and basic accounting skills
  • Be self-motivated and take initiative
  • Possess strong managerial skills
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team
  • Have a Finance or Accounting background (preferred, not required)
  • Possess strong verbal and writing skills

Responsibilities

  • Process daily cash reports and make cash & credit deposits for the Union’s business operations
  • Daily accounting/set up of area cash bags & duty reports
  • Manage Union purchase orders and process all invoices
  • Oversee inventory within the Union office
  • Basic accounting skills for all areas of the Student Union (Red’s Pub, Campus Concierge)
  • Other duties as requested

Expected Hours

10 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Student Union Graphic Designer

The Student Union Graphic designer is in charge of making advertisements for all operations of the Student Union. The Graphic Designer will meet with the Student Union GA’s and Director to receive daily projects and is expected to fulfill all deadlines.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve plenty of projects and deadlines that will need to be met as well as organization skills to keep up with all responsibilities. Persons in this position must:

  • Have acute knowledge of Adobe Suite products including, but not limited to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
  • Sufficient time management skills
  • The ability to meet deadlines as well as being flexible with changes
  • Prior experience in Graphic design and Marketing
  • Strong communicating skills with others

Responsibilities

  • Meet regularly to discuss projects and deadlines
  • Complete all projects in a timely manner
  • Adhering to the publishing schedule
  • Plans concept by overlooking given information and materials
  • Illustrates concepts by designing aesthetic concepts through layout or regarding arrangement, size, font size and style
  • May work remotely

Expected Hours

10 hours per week

Location

This position does offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Summer Conference Assistant

Conference Assistants will assist with all facets of the Summer Conference Service program. Staff is responsible for servicing the needs of conference groups and their participants housed in the residence halls. This includes administrative, clerical and physical operations necessary to provide housing, and support services to conference participants, and involvement in all phases of the conference program, including pre-conference preparation and post-conference follow-up.

Responsibilities

  • Be committed to pre-conference training and work weekdays, evening and weekends as needed
  • Coordinate meeting/space/housing needs in advance of each conference along with Residential Life and Buildings and Grounds
  • Review conference needs, meet with individual conference leaders as they arrive on campus and periodically during the conference to answer any questions and help with any situations that may occur
  • Coordinate physical set up of meeting facilities and deliver requested equipment to facilities as needed
  • Work with appropriate campus departments in meeting the needs of conference groups
  • Coordinate return of all equipment to appropriate locations
  • Live in Campus housing
  • Be on-call as part of a rotation
  • Printing ID cards/ Conference meal cards
  • Carrying out daily Campus Concierge operations
  • Gathering up and delivering linens to the dorms
  • Checking the condition of the dorm rooms
  • Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

  • Flexibility
  • Dependability
  • Attention to detail
  • Punctuality
  • Positive image and tidy appearance
  • Knowledge of campus resources
  • Ability to work independently with little supervision, as well as part of a team
  • Effective communication skills
  • Willingness to work and learn
  • Flexibility/ Sense of humor
  • Understanding of customer service philosophy
  • Sexual Misconduct Prevention Training (Training provided)
  • May take a summer class provided it does not interfere with job requirements

Expected Hours

40 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Secret Rider

The Secret Riders play an integral role in the operation and maintenance of the Student Union’s shuttle service, by monitoring the execution of the shuttle service from a student’s perspective. These staff members are assigned various routes to ride throughout the week and will report any issues or concerns to the Student Union professional staff members.

Responsibilities

  • Completing weekly assignments as scheduled
  • Reporting any issues/concerns to Student Union professional staff via Ride Report
  • Other duties as requested

Job Requirements

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Possess strong verbal and writing skills
  • Be dependable and reliable
  • Demonstrate discretion and confidentiality
  • Be detail-oriented
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Be willing to work off-campus and ride shuttles
  • Have knowledge and experience with shuttle service (preferred, but not required)
  • Have been awarded work-study by the Office of Student Financial Assistance
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Student Union Office Assistant

Student Union Office Assistants assist with general office duties within the Student Union Department consisting of greeting guests, answering office phones, filing, scanning, making copies and other duties as assigned.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff, and University guests. Persons in this position must:

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Be positive and resourceful
  • Possess strong verbal and written skills
  • Be dependable and reliable
  • Have excellent organizational skills
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team
  • Have been awarded work-study by the Office of Student Financial Assistance

Responsibilities

  • General office duties (filing, copying, scanning, etc.)
  • Fulfill daily service requests including customized buttons and balloon packages
  • Greet University guests
  • Maintain the Student Union office in an orderly fashion at all times
  • Oversee the sanitation in all Student Union office locations
  • Protect confidentiality when necessary
  • Other duties as requested

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.

Campus Concierge

The Campus Concierge oversees the University’s “information desk” through providing University students, faculty, staff and guests with information on the shuttle service, local recommendations and more all while utilizing exceptional customer service. The Campus Concierge is also in charge of carrying out daily service sales, equipment rentals and the printing and distribution of University Identification cards.

Knowledge & Skills

This role will involve significant interaction with all members of the University community, which includes students, faculty, staff, and University guests. Persons in this position must:

  • Be responsible and professional individuals
  • Be positive and resourceful
  • Possess strong verbal and written skills
  • Be dependable and reliable
  • Have excellent organizational skills
  • Understand what it means to provide quality customer service
  • Be willing to be a member of an energetic team
  • Have been awarded work-study by Student Financial Assistance

Responsibilities

  • Provide exceptional customer service to the entire Sacred Heart community
  • Offer recommendations on local restaurants and shopping in the area
  • Oversee and carry out daily Campus Concierge sales including movie tickets, mailing supplies and balloon bundles
  • Provide vending machine refunds to students, faculty and staff
  • Oversee and carry out locker, game and easel rentals
  • Assist the Student Union Manager in overseeing daily service requests
  • Maintain the Campus Concierge in an orderly fashion at all times
  • Protect confidentiality when necessary
  • Other duties as requested

Expected Hours

3-15 hours per week

Location

This position does not offer remote work.

Apply

Contact Virginia Doxsey, Assistant Director of the Student Union, at 203-396-6211 or doxseyv@sacredheart.edu.