Donation Services Associate - Lakeside Store
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's parse the job posting. Key parts: - Job Details Description: "Please Note: This position will be posted through, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026*" (date). This is metadata; we can fold into a short
maybe. - Pay: "$16.45 Hr." Full Time position available. Availability to work evenings and weekends is a must for this position! - Job Summary: description of role. - Essential Functions: list of duties. - Qualifications: Education, Experience, Other. - Also mention: "This position is eligible for Daily Pay! Work today, get paid today! We’ve partnered with DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule. Full Time employees in our Retail, Sales/Operations, Commercial Contracts are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Flexible Spending Accounts and several voluntary supplemental benefit offerings. In addition, these positions are eligible for paid time off in the form of vacation, sick, holiday, floating holiday, jury duty and bereavement leave. Goodwill of Colorado is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible employer." - Physical Requirements: details. We need to map to sections: About the role (maybe job summary), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (maybe qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe education/experience?), Skills (maybe other?), Benefits (benefits description), Pay (pay rate), Schedule (availability to work evenings and weekends, varied schedule, etc.) We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual content. Let's extract: About the role: Job Summary paragraph. Responsibilities: Essential Functions list (multiple bullet points). Could be
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Requirements: maybe the "Qualifications" section includes Education, Experience, Other. Could be separate sections: Qualifications (Education, Experience, Other). But we have both Qualifications and Requirements headings allowed. We need to decide.
The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have multiple of those.
We need to include a section only when posting has real specific content for it.
Thus we can have:
- About the role (Job Summary)
- Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
- Qualifications (Education, Experience, Other)
- Benefits (benefits description)
- Pay (Pay rate)
- Schedule (availability to work evenings and weekends, varied schedule, etc.)
- Possibly Skills (maybe "basic computer skills", "ability to read/comprehend/write/communicate effectively in English", "must be able to make decisions by following Goodwill standards", "must be able to work in various weather conditions", "must be able to use safety equipment", etc.) Those could go under Skills.
- Requirements maybe could be redundant with Qualifications; but we could put Requirements as the "Other" or "Physical Requirements"? However Physical Requirements is a separate detailed list; maybe we could put under Requirements? But we have a heading "Requirements". Could use for physical requirements? But we also have Skills.
We need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting includes "Qualifications" section with Education, Experience, Other. Also includes "Physical Requirements" attachment. Could treat Physical Requirements as part of Requirements or maybe as a separate section but we don't have a heading for Physical Requirements; we could put under Requirements.
Skills: could be the "Other" qualifications like computer skills, communication, decision making, weather conditions, safety equipment.
Thus:
- About the role: Job Summary paragraph.
- Responsibilities: Essential Functions list.
- Requirements: Physical Requirements (maybe also include "must be able to work varied schedule"? but schedule separate). We'll put physical demands.
- Qualifications: Education, Experience, Other (maybe include basic computer skills, communication, decision making, etc.) Actually "Other" includes many items: must be able to make decisions by following Goodwill standards, basic computer skills, work in various weather conditions, use safety equipment, ability to read/comprehend/write/communicate effectively in English, communicate effectively with customers etc., work varied schedule including weekends, evenings, holidays with occasional overtime. Some of those overlap with schedule and skills.
We could split: Qualifications: Education, Experience. Skills: Other (computer skills, communication, decision making, safety equipment, weather). Schedule: availability to work evenings and weekends, varied schedule, holidays, overtime. Benefits: benefits description. Pay: pay rate.
Let's extract each.
Job Summary paragraph:
"The Associate I, Donation Services is typically the first point of contact for customers that are dropping off items at retail centers and/or stand-alone donation centers (ADC). The Donation Services Associates will provide excellent and friendly customer service by greeting customers’ timely and helping as needed that may include lifting or unloading donations from a customer’s vehicle or other area. Associates are expected to handle goods with care, showing respect for items donated."
We'll put that in
. Essential Functions list (multiple sentences). Let's list each as bullet: - Provides excellent customer service, greeting customers in a timely manner, answering product questions as needed. - Assists every customer by unloading donations from vehicle or other areas. - Ensure that donated items are handled with care and sorted into appropriate bins or production areas. - Inspect all donations within assigned areas and make decisions on quality to sort appropriately for the sales floor or to be shipped to other locations. - Ensures a safe, organized, and clean environment is maintained for both customers and fellow employees within the donations entrance and parking lot areas. - Maintain remote donation centers, sheds, and/or trailer if applicable, following appropriate opening and closing procedures when working at a remote site. Ensure supplies are kept well stocked at remote site as necessary. - Tracks and reports on donation levels daily to ensure trailers do not become over stocked when working in remote donation center locations. - Timely communication when donation warehouse and/or trailer(s) are becoming full and a truck is needed. - Follows all retail center/donation center policies and procedures. - Assist drivers in loading and unloading donations onto the truck when necessary. - Follows all safety processes and procedures to help provide a safe working environment for employees and customers. - Crosstrain in other departments or areas; act as a back-up for other areas as required. - May be required to report to the store ADC or stand-alone center when necessary. - Job duties may extend beyond the tasks listed and may include additional responsibilities as required. We'll put these in
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Qualifications (Education, Experience):
- Education: A High School diploma or equivalent is preferred.
- Experience: One (1) year of retail experience is preferred.
We'll put those in
- under Qualifications.
Skills: from "Other" list:
- Must be able to make decisions by following Goodwill standards and guidelines.
- Must have basic computer skills to be able to log into a computer system to order supplies and to send and receive email.
- Must be able to work in various weather conditions with varying temperatures*.
- Must be able to use safety equipment to assist with lifting heavy objects such as a dolly or pallet jack.
- Ability to read, comprehend, write, and communicate effectively in English.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with customers, managers, supervisors, staff, and peers.
We'll put those in
- under Skills.
Schedule: from posting:
- Availability to work evenings and weekends is a must for this position!
- Must be able to work a varied schedule to include weekends, evenings, and holidays with occasional overtime as necessary.
- Also note: Full Time position available.
We'll put schedule bullets.
Benefits: from posting:
- This position is eligible for Daily Pay! Work today, get paid today! We’ve partnered with DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.
- Full Time employees in our Retail, Sales/Operations, Commercial Contracts are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Flexible Spending Accounts and several voluntary supplemental benefit offerings.
- In addition, these positions are eligible for paid time off in the form of vacation, sick, holiday, floating holiday, jury duty and bereavement leave.
- Goodwill of Colorado is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible employer.
We'll put those in
- under Benefits.
Pay: "$16.45 Hr." Full Time position available. We'll put in
maybe. Also note the date posting: "Please Note: This position will be posted through, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026*". Could be a short
maybe under a generic note? Not required to have a heading. We'll include as a
at top maybe. Physical Requirements: we haven't used yet. Could be under Requirements heading. Let's extract the physical requirements list. The physical requirements table: Lifting, Carrying, Pushing/Pulling, Reaching, Twisting, Bending, Kneeling/Crawling, Squat, Climbing (legs only, arms & legs), Hearing, Vision (close, distant, depth perception), Hands/Fingers (simple grasping, fine manipulation, repetitive movements), Walking, Standing, Sitting, Speaking, Other (working in various weather conditions/varying temperatures*). Each with frequency: Continuously (5-8 hours), Frequently (3-4 hours), Occasionally (1-2 hours), Never. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include the physical requirements details. Could be a
- each with description.
We'll put under Requirements heading.
Thus sections:
- About the role (Job Summary)
- Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
- Requirements (Physical Requirements)
- Qualifications (Education, Experience)
- Skills (Other qualifications)
- Benefits
- Pay
- Schedule
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We must not include boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, Safe & Drug-free Workplace, etc. Remove those lines.
Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, legal, application instructions.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft.
We'll start with a
for the posting date note. Then
About the role
Job summary...
ThenResponsibilities
- ... etc
Requirements
- ... physical requirements each as li
Qualifications
- Education: A High School diploma or equivalent is preferred.
- Experience: One (1) year of retail experience is preferred.
Skills
- ... each skill
Benefits
- ... each benefit
Pay
$16.45 per hour.
(maybe include Full Time note) ThenSchedule
- Availability to work evenings and weekends is required.
- Must be able to work a varied schedule to include weekends, evenings, and holidays with occasional overtime as necessary.
- each with description.
We'll put under Requirements heading.
Thus sections:
- About the role (Job Summary)
- Responsibilities (Essential Functions)
- Requirements (Physical Requirements)
- Qualifications (Education, Experience)
- Skills (Other qualifications)
- Benefits
- Pay
- Schedule
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We must not include boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, Safe & Drug-free Workplace, etc. Remove those lines.
Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, cookie, legal, application instructions.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft.
We'll start with a
- under Benefits.
Pay: "$16.45 Hr." Full Time position available. We'll put in
- under Skills.
Schedule: from posting:
- Availability to work evenings and weekends is a must for this position!
- Must be able to work a varied schedule to include weekends, evenings, and holidays with occasional overtime as necessary.
- Also note: Full Time position available.
We'll put schedule bullets.
Benefits: from posting:
- This position is eligible for Daily Pay! Work today, get paid today! We’ve partnered with DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.
- Full Time employees in our Retail, Sales/Operations, Commercial Contracts are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Flexible Spending Accounts and several voluntary supplemental benefit offerings.
- In addition, these positions are eligible for paid time off in the form of vacation, sick, holiday, floating holiday, jury duty and bereavement leave.
- Goodwill of Colorado is a Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible employer.
We'll put those in
- under Qualifications.
Skills: from "Other" list:
- Must be able to make decisions by following Goodwill standards and guidelines.
- Must have basic computer skills to be able to log into a computer system to order supplies and to send and receive email.
- Must be able to work in various weather conditions with varying temperatures*.
- Must be able to use safety equipment to assist with lifting heavy objects such as a dolly or pallet jack.
- Ability to read, comprehend, write, and communicate effectively in English.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with customers, managers, supervisors, staff, and peers.
We'll put those in
- .
Qualifications (Education, Experience):
- Education: A High School diploma or equivalent is preferred.
- Experience: One (1) year of retail experience is preferred.
We'll put those in