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Off-Campus Jobs

House keeper

Location/Department: East Brainerd

Description/Duties: Come to my house 1x a week to clean and help with laundry and maybe a little babysitting!

Qualifications: Good with kids. Pet friendly. Able to clean house.

Hours: 4 hours a week.

Pay Rate: $16/hour

Person to Contact: Laura Porter

Email: Lauraporter2004@hotmail.com

Office Phone: 270-816-5481

Job Posted: 3/24

Childcare Worker

Location/Department: Ooltewah United Methodist Church, Church Address:  6131 Relocation Way, Ooltewah, TN 37363

Description/Duties: Job Description: OUMC Childcare workers provide childcare to children ages 0-5 on Sunday Mornings and Wednesday Evenings.

Responsibilities:

- Be able to encourage a welcoming, healthy, safe, and Christian environment

- Maintain and care for all equipment and toys in the childcare rooms.

- Help with snacks and meeting the basic needs of children

- Adhere to Safe Sanctuary policies (Training provided by OUMC)

- Abide by OUMC policies and expectations

- Attend quarterly training (held Sundays before/after services with food provided)

Qualifications: 

- Must be 18 years of age or older

- LOVE working with children

- Communicates well with Children and Families

- Supportive of Christian Values

- Works well with children and others

- Can deal sensitively and confidentially with parent concerns

- Physically able to teach young children

- Reliable and Punctual

- Available to work during the hours provided

Hours: Must be available through the Summer!

Sunday Morning: 8:00 am - 12:45 pm.

Wednesday Evening: 5:30–8:00 pm

Pay Rate:  $14 per hour

Person to Contact: Chrissy Grey

Email: cgray@ooltewahumc.com

Office Phone: 423.238.9216

Job Posted: 3/27

Home Care Nursing Assistance

Location/Department: Ooltewah

Description/Duties: Need assistance with my husband who is a dementia patient.  Requires applicant to be with him for my personal appointments (doctor, dentist, grocery shopping, etc.  He is not mobile.

Qualifications: Desire applicant to have nursing experience/training and can work with senior citizen

Hours: Hours Day time help. 
Will try to accommodate student schedule
Will continue help during summer months

Pay Rate: Open for discussion.

Person to Contact: Jane Kisel

Email: lady38jk@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423.451.9932 (c)

Other: Help needed as soon as possible

Job Posted: 4/1

House and Cat Sitter

Location/Department: Apison, 10 minutes from campus

Description/Duties: I have four (4) precious Cornish Rex cats, and I’m looking for someone to stay overnight, spend 10-12 hours a days there, play and take care of my babies.

Qualifications: Definitely have to love cats!! 

Hours: 10-12 hours a days

Pay Rate: The pay starts at $100.00 a day

Person to Contact: Mariella

Email: mariellapechero@yahoo.com

Job Posted: 4/7

Mother's Helper

Location/Department: Ooltewah

Description/Duties: Soon to be mother of young children ( 0-3 years old ) searching for a reliable and caring Mother's helper to assist with the morning rush and preparation for and transportation to school in the mornings as we are expecting our third child to arrive early this September.

Duties to include, helping us get the older 2 kids out of bed and dressed for school, supervise mealtime, assist mother with newborn care, help loading kids into carseats, ride along for school drop off's so newborn doesn't have to leave the car at each stop. With time and increased trust we may ask for assistance driving/ dropping kids off at school or for nanny to care for newborn while Mother drops kids off at school. Additional tasks would include light housekeeping ( cleaning up breakfast dishes/ empty dishwasher ) or helping with children's laundry ( wash fold put away etc) 

Qualifications: Great with young children, experience with newborns, must have driver's license and a safe vehicle, comfortable driving with children in the car, CPR and First Aid Certified, Vaccinated ( Flu and DTAP current).

Hours: M-F 6:45 AM - 9:45 AM ( end time is flexible ) and Occasional weekend date nights/daytime opportunities for extra hours.

Pay Rate: 18/ hr

Person to Contact: Shawn Strever

Email: shawnhmc@gmail.com

Job Posted: 4/7

Gardening help

Location/Department: Collegedale, about 1.5 miles from Southern

Description/Duties: Would appreciate help in weeding my flower garden on an on-going basis. I am a senior.

Qualifications: Someone who is dependable

Hours: Very flexible; approximately 3 - 6 hours a week.

Pay Rate: $13/hr.

Person to Contact: Donna Brewer

Email: dmbrewer1@aol.com

Office Phone: (1) 248-318-4902 

Job Posted: 4/9

Nanny/Babysitter

Location/Department: McDonald TN, in home

Description/Duties: In search of a nanny/babysitter for two girls (age 6 and 8) for the summer in our home. Duties will include childcare, overseeing the girls in their (very minimal) daily chores. Will need to have transport to our home, and would prefer someone who is comfortable transporting them occasionally lessons and/or outings.

Qualifications: Previous Babysitting experience CPR certification preferred.

Hours: 2-3 days a week, approx 8 hrs a day. 8:30am-5:00 pm approximately (can be flexible with which days).

Pay Rate: Negotiable.

Person to Contact: Stacy Shives

Email: stacyluann@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423-664-3289

Job Posted: 4/9

Camp counselor

Location/Department: Ooltewah SDA Church 

Description/Duties: Lead groups of kids through daily schedule, lead worship, and planned learning time, and supervise kids.you would have a group of 12 9-10 year olds.

Qualifications: Experience with kids

Stand/move all day

Willing to have worship with kids

Sing with them

Hours: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Pay Rate: $16.00 an hour

Person to Contact: Kandenne De Lauer

Email: kandennemg@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423.702.1040

Job Posted: 4/16

Yard worker

Location/Department: McDonald, TN

Description/Duties: Life's been busy and I need someone to help me catch up on some work around the house/yard. Projects include:

- Mowing (riding mower provided)

- Weed eating

- Cutting up and stacking wood from a tree that fell

- Removing some bushes from the yard

- Clearing out the crawlspace (pays extra)

- Leveling out the yard with topsoil

Tools and protective equipment (gloves, eye protection, etc) will be provided.
Transportation can be provided if needed.

Qualifications: 

- Can follow directions.

- Is comfortable using tools and working with their hands.

- Can work without much supervision

Hours: Very flexible but looking for 5+ hrs a week until all projects are complete

Pay Rate:  $16/hr ($20/hr for crawlspace work)

Person to Contact: Stephen Jenks

Email: chefsteph91@gmail.com

Office Phone: 315.224.7587

Job Posted: 4/16

Elderly Care

Location/Department: Ooltewah, assisted living

Description/Duties: Seeking a patient and outgoing  individual to provide help for elderly couple residing at The Bridge of Ooltewah, assisted living.    
Marcia - a sweet lady who suffers from dementia.
Jimmy - a friendly guy with Parkinson’s. Their basic care needs are provided by the Bridge employees. Looking for someone to keep them company and help with easy tasks. 

Qualifications: Required skills: Must be patient, compassionate and outgoing with the ability to connect with elderly people.  

Hours: Flexible days and hours 4-6 hours a week

Pay Rate: negotiable 

Person to Contact: Shelly Fesler 

Office Phone: call or text Shelly Fesler at 303.717.1105

Job Posted: 4/16

Multimedia Account Manager

Location/Department: Chattanooga, TN

Description/Duties: WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, TN, a subsidiary of Morris Network is seeking a Multimedia Account Manager who can take us to the next level.
The position will develop new business by recommending marketing solutions that produce measurable results, with both television and digital marketing.
The candidate will have full access to a suite of the most effective and efficient Broadcast Television advertising and Digital Marketing products and services.

Qualifications: The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and cultivating new and existing leads through cold calls, telephone prospecting, request for proposals, etc. 
The Multimedia Account Manager candidate must have quantitative evidence of sales success as well as digital marketing knowledge.
Knowing the many digital marketing products and how they work together to create a strategy is paramount to the candidate’s success.

Other: Valid driver’s license and auto insurance required. Please provide references with resume. EEO M/F/D/V. Pre-employment background and drug screening. Send resume to Human Resources: WDEF-TV, 3300 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37408 or email hr@wdef.com or fax to 423/785-1271 No phone calls please.

Job Posted: 4/18

It Is Written

It Is Written is seeking talented professionals who have a passion for serving the Lord through media evangelism.

Some of our current job openings include: Customer Service Representative, IT Technology Specialist, Marketing Coordinator, Video Editor, and Graphic Designer - Web.

For more information about all of our open positions, and to apply online, please visit us at itiswritten.com/employment.

Job Posted: 4/21

Summer Babysitter/Childcare

Location/Department: Collegedale, Tennessee 

Description/Duties: I’m looking for a nanny to assist me with my 3 year old son, he is a wonderful ball of energy, very social, inquisitive and lots of fun. I would like someone to encourage his curious mind, engage in stimulating activities, make him giggle and give lots of hugs, while always maintaining discipline, respect and manners.

Responsibilities include: homework help & creative 

Qualifications: Must be kind, honest, upbeat, high energy, fun and loving!

Hours: 15 Weekly

Pay Rate: $23 Hourly

Person to Contact: Steve Brown

Email: sb407573@gmail.com 

Job Posted: 4/21

Babysitter

Location/Department: Apison

Description/Duties: Babysitting for our 8 year old daughter at our home in Apison. We live 8 minutes from the campus in the Crystal Brook neighborhood. Babysitting could be occasional week nights and some weekend evenings.

Qualifications: Experience in babysitting. Bonus if you like to swim or play soccer, tennis or volleyball. She loves all of those.

Hours: Vary

Pay Rate: $15 per hour

Person to Contact: Brandi Curtid

Email: Brandicurtis17@yahoo.com

Job Posted: 4/24

Summer Spanish Tutor- LOCAL

Location/Department: Ooltewah Residence 

Description/Duties: We are seeking a passionate and reliable summer Spanish tutor to help 1 child build confidence and fluency in Spanish over the summer months.  This position is ideal for someone who loves working with children and has a strong grasp of both of both written and spoken Spanish. 

Design and deliver engaging Spanish lessons tailored to the student's level and learning goals. 

Incorporate conversation practice, vocabulary building, grammar instruction and cultural insights.  Use a variety of methods and resources (games, songs, reading, writing, etc.) to make learning interactive and fun.  Provide progress updates to parents and student as needed.

Qualifications: All interested candidates must live in the local area (Chattanooga/Collegedale/Ooltewah/etc.)

Fluency in Spanish (native or near-native proficiency). Strong communication and interpersonal skills preferred.  Organized, patient, reliable, punctual and creative skills are strongly preferred. 

Hours: Hours are flexible. We will work around your schedule.  Both daytime & evening shifts are available.

Pay Rate: Pay will be based upon experience  $20-$22 an hour

Person to Contact: Crystal Burney

Email: mrsb1220@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423.779.8912

Other:  No phone calls please!! Interested candidates should inquire via text or email, including your name and a callback number.  Thank You :)  

Job Posted: 4/25

Summer Assistant to Business Executive--Local Candidates only

Location/Department: Cleveland Business

Description/Duties: Business Executive seeking a proactive, detailed-oriented summer assistant to support a busy business executive in day-to-day operations.  This is a great opportunity for a motivated individual interested in business, entrepreneurship or executive support to gain valuable hands-on experience. 

Managing scheduling, calendar coordination and meeting preparation.  Handle email correspondence, phone calls and follow-ups.  Assist with project tracking, research and presentation preparation.  Perform administrative tasks including file management and document drafting.  Assist with personal errands and logistics.

Qualifications: Only candidates that live in the local areas will be considered (Cleveland/Chattanooga/Collegedale/Ooltewah/etc.)

Strong organizational & multitasking abilities.  Excellent written & verbal communication skills.  Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel and other productivity tools.  Discretion and professionalism in handling sensitive information.  Self-starter with a positive attitude and willingness to learn.

Preferred:  Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Communications or a related field.  Previous experience in administrative or executive support. 

Hours: 40 hours per week (8am-5pm)

Pay Rate: $20-$25 an hour

Person to Contact: Crystal Burney

Email: mrsb1220@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423.779.8912

Other: No phone calls please! Interested candidates should inquire via text or email, including your full name, resume and a callback number.  Thank You.  

Job Posted: 4/25

Summer Nanny for 1 child in Ooltewah

Location/Department: Ooltewah Residence

Description/Duties: We are seeking a caring, energetic and responsible summer nanny for one child during the summer months.  Potential candidates should live locally (Chattanooga/Collegedale/Ooltewah). 
The ideal candidate should genuinely enjoy spending time with children, planning fun and educational activities and maintaining a safe and nurturing environment.  This position would be responsible for the preparing snacks & meals for the child. along with preparing crafts, games and summer-related activities along with parent.  The ability to assist with light household tasks related to the child.

Qualifications: Previous nanny experience preferred. 
CPR & First Aid certifications (or willingness to obtain)
Valid driver's license and ability to pass an extensive background check. 
Strong communication & organizational skills a MUST! 
Reliable, punctual and proactive strongly preferred. 
An ability to enjoy outside time during summer months is also a non-negotiable. 
Active and upbeat personalities personalities preferred.  

Hours: Very flexible hours.  I will work around another job or summer class schedule.  Typical shift would be 1-2 daytime shifts and 2-3 evening shifts a week.  Candidates must be able to work 2 weekend shifts a month.

Pay Rate: Pay will be based on experience $19-$25 an hour

Person to Contact: Crystal Burney

Email: mrsb1220@gmail.com

Office Phone: 423.779.8912

Other: No phone calls PLEASE! All interested applicants should text or email inquires, please include your name and a callback number where you can be reached.  Thank You 

Job Posted: 4/25