Housekeeping Associate | Part Time
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American Youth Hostels
Santa Monica, CA, US
Summary
Maintain a clean and welcoming environment by cleaning guest rooms, bathrooms, and common areas. Handle laundry duties and ensure housekeeping supplies are stocked and inventory is maintained.
Job Description
Join Our Team as a Housekeeping Associate at HI LASanta Monica Hostel!
Would you love to interact with travelers from all around the world and ensure they have a comfortable stay? Join HI USA at our Santa Monica hostel, located on vibrant 2nd St. We are currently accepting applications for Housekeeping Associates who will help maintain our hostel's welcoming and clean environment, enhancing the guest experience.
Position Details:
Pay: $19.80 – 20.20 per hour
Type: Part Time (24 hours/week)
Benefits: Paid Time Off and Paid Sick Leave (New Hire waiting periods apply).
Perks:
- Free parking
- Free stays at other HI USA hostels (subject to availability)
- Discounts on hundreds of brands
- Friendly and inclusive work environment
Role Objectives & Responsibilities:
- Clean and prepare guest rooms, dorms, and bathrooms
- Mop, vacuum, and sweep hostel grounds daily
- Perform laundry room functions, including washing, sorting, folding, and stocking
- Change and wash bed linens, bedspreads, blankets, and towels
- Wash and put away kitchen dishes and utensils
- Clean and disinfect sinks, toilets, and tubs/showers; restock soap and toilet paper as needed
- Wash windows and window coverings
- Dust countertops, dresser tops, furniture, paintings, and door jambs
- Empty trash cans and recycling daily
- Report broken items to management
- Ensure all unnecessary lights are turned off
- Maintain inventory of housekeeping supplies
- Assist with light maintenance, kitchen maintenance, and groundskeeping as required
Skills/Qualifications:
- Minimum six months of hostel or hotel housekeeping experience preferred
- Ability to work independently and as part of a larger team
- Customer service experience is a plus
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Must be willing to work evenings, overnight, weekends, and holidays as required
Physical Requirements:
- Regularly required to sit, use hands and arms
- Frequently required to stand, walk, talk, and hear
- Occasionally required to climb or balance
- Must be able to lift and move up to 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required: close, peripheral, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We Make a Difference!
At HI USA, we celebrate diversity and welcome individuals of all backgrounds. As a nonprofit organization, we help people, especially the young, travel on a budget to foster a greater understanding of the world and its people through affordable travel opportunities. If you're passionate about hospitality and creating memorable experiences, apply today to join our team as a Housekeeping Associate.
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We speak different languages, but we're all in this together. Hostels were designed to lower the barriers to travel, because we believe travel fosters a deeper understanding of people, places, and the world around. It's our mission to promote a community of global citizens who have the wisdom and humanity to make the world a better place, and that's what makes hostels the first choice for experienced travelers.
In hostels, you're more likely to meet someone from the other side of the world than someone from your hometown. Our shared kitchens, dining rooms and lounges ensure plenty of opportunities to connect with other travelers, and with hostel events and programs ranging from casual outings to rich cultural activities we help you get to know the destination as we do, beyond what you’ll find in guidebooks.
The best part is you don't have to travel far or study abroad to experience hostels for yourself. Our affordable hostels are located in converted mansions, reinvented lighthouses and historic buildings reclaimed in the spirit of discovery and community all across the country.
Hostelling International USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization founded in 1934 to promote international understanding of the world and its people through hostelling. HI USA, in cooperation with other national associations worldwide, belongs to Hostelling International. This global network offers thousands of hostels in nearly 80 countries.
Founded
1934
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Hospitality
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Silver Spring, Maryland
We speak different languages, but we're all in this together. Hostels were designed to lower the barriers to travel, because we believe travel fosters a deeper understanding of people, places, and the world around. It's our mission to promote a community of global citizens who have the wisdom and humanity to make the world a better place, and that's what makes hostels the first choice for experienced travelers.
In hostels, you're more likely to meet someone from the other side of the world than someone from your hometown. Our shared kitchens, dining rooms and lounges ensure plenty of opportunities to connect with other travelers, and with hostel events and programs ranging from casual outings to rich cultural activities we help you get to know the destination as we do, beyond what you’ll find in guidebooks.
The best part is you don't have to travel far or study abroad to experience hostels for yourself. Our affordable hostels are located in converted mansions, reinvented lighthouses and historic buildings reclaimed in the spirit of discovery and community all across the country.
Hostelling International USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization founded in 1934 to promote international understanding of the world and its people through hostelling. HI USA, in cooperation with other national associations worldwide, belongs to Hostelling International. This global network offers thousands of hostels in nearly 80 countries.
Founded
1934
Company size
201-500 employees
Industry
Hospitality
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Silver Spring, Maryland
