Job Description

Requisition No: 869311

Agency: Department of State

Working Title: DOS - OPS STAFF ASSISTANT - 45945824 1

Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 45945824

Salary: $17.00 hourly

Posting Closing Date: 02/12/2026

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Department of State

OPS Staff Assistant

Working Title: Assistant Store Manager

Division of Historical Resources

Bureau of Historic Museums

Open Competitive

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or its equivalent
• Six months of experience working in a retail store
• Familiar with desktop computer applications
• Available to work weekends
• Resume attached to application

Preferences:

• One year of experience working in a retail store
• Six months of experience working as an assistant store manager or store manager
• Prior work or volunteer experience in a museum or museum store

Special Note:

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported in your employment history.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Florida’s History Shop is the retail store of the Museum of Florida History. Florida’s History Shop consists of three locations—the Museum of Florida History, the Capitol, and the Florida Historic Capitol Museum—and an online store (FloridasHistoryShop.com). We are seeking a full-time Assistant Manager to carry out all functions of the stores. Working under the store manager, the Assistant Manager will staff the stores as needed, train sales associates, perform inventory, set up displays, and participate in all other store functions. The assistant manager must be able to provide excellent service to customers.

• Handle cash transactions
• Fulfill online orders
• Provide excellent customer service to all visitors to the stores
• Oversee the Florida Flag Program
• Conduct opening and closing procedures for museum stores
• Provide staffing at stores, including making sales to customers
• Assist gift shop manager with merchandise deliveries, pricing, adding merchandise to the point-of-sale system, and inventory
• Assist gift shop manager with employee scheduling, funds requests, ordering, receiving invoices, and organizing documentation related to sales and inventory purchases
• Assist with merchandising the stores
• Train new sales associates
• Create reports as requested, including but not limited to sales reports and monthly activities reports
• Oversee the stores in the absence of the store manager
• Other office and administrative duties as directed by store manager

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products
• Ability to communicate effectively

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Ability to work some weekends and evenings if needed
• Ability to lift, push, or carry items up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to bend, stoop, squat, stretch, and twist
• Ability to travel between the three stores

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS A Level 2 criminal background check is a condition of employment. If selected for this position, you must provide your fingerprints. We will send your fingerprints to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a criminal background check.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

We are committed to enhancing our workforce through the employment of Veterans, individuals with disabilities and seek qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds, abilities, skills, and talents to join our workforce.

Male applicants born on or after January 1, 1960, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: https://www.sss.gov

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.