Scheduling Coordinator

Part Time to Full Time Scheduling Coordinator

Typically doubling revenues year over year since our launch in 2016, steady business development has created a new opportunity for a Scheduling Coordinator in our burgeoning business. Having absolutely exemplary individuals supporting our 15,000+ annual customers, 20+ tour guides, chauffeurs, and shuttle drivers, along with our sales and administration team is paramount to us.

Simon Sinek says, “Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire motivated people and inspire them.”

We have our hearts set on becoming a “great company” like Simon refers to, consequently, we need, “great people” – motivated people. We have a goal to achieve similar performance indicators as Canada’s Best Managed Companies, to become a Top-Ranked Employer of the 1.3 million Canadian employers, and to build an uncommon company culture that focuses on the care and success of our 1) employee-partners, 2) customers, 3) vendors, and 4) neighbors – as a result, the required caliber of teammates is very high. Perhaps like you’d expect on an all-star team or Olympic team as opposed to a minor-league team.

Any exceptional enterprise depends first and foremost upon having self-managed and self-motivated people – the #1 ingredient for a culture of disciplined excellence. We believe that when you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. To be blunt, there’s no need for micromanaging when everyone has their act together. The right people here are productively neurotic, self-motivated, self-disciplined, and compulsively driven to do the best they can because it’s simply part of their DNA.

This is not the place for pitiful, timid, ineffectual, fainthearted, half-hearted, wishy-washy, time-wasting, lazy, cowards, or narcissists with an unwarranted sense of entitlement who are easily offended and unable to deal with opposing opinions. It’s okay if those are a person’s character traits – they’ll just want to avoid this place.

This is no place for a confidence problem” Peter C. Tour guide & driver since March 2018

THE RESPONSIBILITY

Our gifted Scheduling Coordinator is responsible for articulately answering the phone, directing calls/emails intelligently, critically thinking and reasoning as they actively and thoroughly process information by collecting, analyzing, conceptualizing, combining and assessing it, then entering the data into the booking management software with precision, meticulously creating Google calendar events, as well as impeccable daily itineraries for drivers and tour guides. The right person will grasp the difference between their task list and their true responsibilities as an ambassador initializing impeccable communications, seamless logistics, and cultivating customer enthusiasm.

THE PERSONALITY – AN ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATION

Our Scheduling Coordinator is decisive, organized, and goal-oriented. You have the best businessperson temperament blend of positivity, tenacity, self-reliance, resourcefulness, leadership, and drive uniquely matched with a loyal, self-sacrificing, uncompromising, analytical, detail-conscious, and schedule-oriented side. You possess qualities of both a born leader and a genius.

THE CORE VALUES – ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

1. You care – it’s in your DNA. You are known to be a kind, caring, compassionate, charitable, selfless, bighearted, humanitarian. (It’s a trait – not an aspiration)
2. You go the extra mile – it’s in your DNA. You are a high performer and typically exemplify qualities and attributes like problem solving, communicativeness, self-direction, drive, adaptability/flexibility, passion, determination, positivity, strategic thinking, initiative, collaboration, continuous learning, coachability, ambition, and ownership. As a high performer you regularly go above and beyond, typically achieving your goals and improving the companies you work for. As a high performer you are a relentless champion of honesty and integrity, you behave honorably, exhibit strong ethics, and show evidence of responsibility and determination.

THE PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. You have an extraordinary sense of self-worth. You know you are truly of value, no matter how you look, or act, or think, or what others think of you. Your confidence is exemplary, whether dressed for gardening or a gala. Zero cosmetics or full glam – you’re at ease either way.
2. English is your first language.
3. You have good vision.
4. You are a non-smoker.
5. You have familiarity of Okanagan Cities and Towns.
6. You have experience in Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Sheets, and Gmail.
7. You are a balanced list-maker AND list-completer.
8. You organize, prioritize, and execute with competence. Plus re-prioritize with efficiency.
9. You have extraordinary critical thinking and reasoning abilities.
10. You have exemplary communication and interpersonal skills.
11. You have praiseworthy customer service performance.
12. You are accurate, precise, and meticulous.

THE WORKING CONDITIONS

1. A great team.
2. A worthy purpose. We deliver extraordinary transportation experiences safely helping people get to their destination or home to the ones they love, and memorable tour experiences.
3. A positive and safe working environment.
4. WorkSafeBC approved bullying and harassment protocols.
5. go2HR workplace psychological health and safety resources.
6. Fairness, equity, equality, diversity. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
7. Open floor plan office environment for learning, community, and especially collaboration.
8. Private office space available when quiet seclusion is necessary.
9. Part-time to full-time 20 – 40 hours per week.
10. Flexible schedule from Sunday to Saturday. Mon to Thurs? Yes! Fri to Sun? Yes!
11. Job share and job rotation options.
12. Desk position with intermittent light physical activity.
13. Approachable, visible, accessible, and readily available leadership.
14. Quarterly Dinner Parties.
15. Paid Fun Monthly adventures like zip-lining & wine tours (yup, day-drinking on the job 🙂
16. Your ideas are truly important. – “Innovation is simply group intelligence having fun”
17. Other Career Opportunities.
18. Enjoy continuous learning and intellectual stimulation.
19. Your years of valuable life experience are highly regarded.
20. Enjoy a sense of purpose as we help our guests.

About Us

THE COMPANY

Highly respected within BC’s Tourism, Transportation, and Wedding Industries, Cheers Okanagan Tours and Transportation was founded in 2016 and quickly vaulted from 124th place to first place on TripAdvisor® for exemplary experiences. Modelling on Canada’s Best Managed Companies and Top-Ranked Employers, we’re building an uncommon company culture that focuses on the care and success of our 1) employee-partners, 2) customers, 3) vendors, and 4) neighbors. Helping people thrive differentiates our business.

THE OWNERS

Years of volunteering our time in remote developing countries plagued by conflict and natural disasters assisting victims rebuild their lives was intensely fulfilling. Later, adopting Haitian brother and sister twin orphans, training them up and watching them volunteer in orphanages in Zambia and Haiti as adults was powerfully inspiring. Helping people to feel cared for, valued, and respected permeates the Cheers! culture.

THE COMMUNITY

Our employee-partners share the bond of caring deeply for humankind and we’re pleased to support kind and compassionate organizations such as Freedom’s Door, Mamas for Mamas, Dreams Take Flight, Cops for Kids, and others with our time, talent, and treasure.

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Cheers! has been known to all of a sudden rescue over 155 forsaken travellers on Christmas Eve from the Vancouver Airport and safely deliver them to the Okanagan as seen on Castanet. We’ve swiftly delivered a local nurse practitioner from Oyama to the Calgary airport to catch a flight to the Northwest Territories so that the remote community’s healthcare facility wouldn’t be closed for weeks. We’ve abruptly drove to the Kamloops airport from Kelowna to rescue 5 marooned Heli-Skiers, and safely delivered them 6 hours to the East in Kaslo, BC. We’ve suddenly driven 13 hours from YLW to Mike Wiegele Helicopter Skiing in Blue River, BC and back to rescue 20 isolated Heli-Skiers. Dashed to Vancouver from Kelowna, picked up a stranded Australian family, and then safely deliver them to Sun Peaks Ski Resort and return to Kelowna – all in one fell swoop – on Christmas Eve. All of a sudden we were transporting Vernon’s W.L. Seaton Secondary School’s choir on the eve of their performances at Black History Month celebrations in Vancouver when their transportation abruptly cancelled on them at the last minute. We’ve instantly rescued numerous engaged couples whose wedding transportation never showed up. Expeditiously rescued an Ottawa family of 7 that urgently needed to go to the Vancouver Airport from West Kelowna due to an unexpected, last-minute flight cancellation. Spontaneously driving 13 hours to help 16 US golfers get to Seattle to catch their flights home because the Kelowna airport suddenly closed due to wildfire smoke in 2018. All of a sudden we safely transported 8 Edmonton school teachers who were stranded in Penticton due to extreme wildfire smoke and delivered them home to the ones they love – a 12-hour drive away. Erin commented the next day, “I have never been so happy to hug my kids!” Overnight in August 2021 we suddenly began shuttling dozens of RCMP every day between their Kelowna accommodations and the Vernon Detachment as the White Rock Lake wildfire levelled structures in Ewings Landing, Killiney, around Monte Lake and in the Paxton Valley. And again, in 2023 we suddenly pivoted to transporting busloads of RCMP for three weeks between their Kelowna accommodations and the Kelowna, Lake Country, and West Kelowna Detachments due to the McDougall Creek Wildfire. Just a few examples of when our business has gone above and beyond to help. 

MOST DAYS

When not in “rescue mode”, we typically deliver safe, clean, transportation solutions for 200+ weddings each summer, along with golfers, sports teams, private & corporate events, private and public airport transfers throughout the Thompson/Okanagan Regions, plus we deliver 4 different tiers of Wine Tours from Self-Guided (vehicle & driver) to Fully-Guided Modest, Classic, and Premium top-tier tour experiences throughout the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys led by top-performing wine tour guides. In the winter we safely deliver private transfers and public shuttles to over 50 Heli-Ski, Cat-Ski, Ski Resorts and airports throughout southern British Columbia. 

Most days we simply wow our guests with uncommon customer service getting them safely to where they need to be, or safely home to the ones they love. This includes; irreproachable communication; safe, clean, reliable vehicles; and, fun, safety-conscious, knowledgeable service aficionados who go above and beyond for our customers, vendors, neighbours, and their fellow employee-partners. 

A LEGITIMATE OPERATOR

Properly insured and legislatively compliant, Cheers! Okanagan Tours and Transportation is a legitimate operator. We are BC Passenger Transportation Licenced (PT 72224), National Safety Code, and Transport Canada Certified (202445168). Moreover, we take our guests and employee-partners safety and travelling comfort very seriously. Please read about our fleet and safety program here

COMPENSATION

We’ll gladly collaborate with you to ensure you’re pleased with your post-probation salary before hiring. As a starting point, we’re offering $25 per hour for the first 90 days. With a little probationary time, we’ll each know if we’re a great fit. We’re of the opinion, whoever you choose to work with, you deserve personal fulfillment. We understand a flexible schedule for work-life balance, meaningful recognition, clear company policies, other career opportunities, helpful feedback, autonomy, and shared values are key drivers of employee engagement in our culture. We’d be foolish to lose anyone truly valuable over a lack of compensation. Our total compensation is above market averages.

Work-Life Balance

We understand the importance of a flexible schedule for work-life balance. 

At Cheers we have a lot of fun, laugh a lot and enjoy the benefits. We guarantee improved health! The Mayo Clinic says, “Laughter enhances your intake of oxygen-rich air, stimulates your heart, lungs and muscles, and increases the endorphins that are released by your brain, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Laughter relieves your stress response and soothes tension. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can even temporarily relieve pain.” https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/art-20044456 or consider the ancient proverb, “A happy heart is like a good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing.” Circa 700 BC

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for exceptional people, the right people, people who are productively neurotic, self-motivated, and self-disciplined, compulsively driven to do the best they can because it’s simply part of their DNA. People who want to be a part of building something great while helping other people to feel cared for, valued, and respected.

The right people are our most important asset. The right person has more to do with character traits and innate capabilities than with specific knowledge, background, or skills. We believe that when you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. There’s no need for micromanaging when everyone has their act together.

As far back as you can remember you have demonstrated an obsession for delivering absolutely exceptional customer service and hospitality. Caring and going above-and-beyond are intrinsically in your DNA. 

You are a high performer and typically exemplify qualities and attributes like problem solving, communicativeness, self-direction, drive, adaptability/flexibility, passion, determination, positivity, strategic thinking, initiative, collaboration, continuous learning, coachability, ambition, and ownership. As a high performer you regularly go above and beyond, typically achieving your goals and improving the companies you work for. As a high performer you are a relentless champion of honesty and integrity, you behave honorably, exhibit strong ethics, and show evidence of responsibility and determination.

If you’re predisposed to our core values, we’d appreciate the privilege of hearing from you.

OTHER CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Love our culture of care and success and want to grow with us? We offer a variety of career paths that facilitate movement up and through the organization. Steady business development creates new opportunities. I.e. Branding, Dispatcher, Event Organizer, Fleet Detailer, Fleet Manager, Graphic Designer, Human Resources, Logistics, Marketing, Office Manager, Operations, Product Development, Public Relations, Sales Team, Shuttle Driver, Social Media, Wedding Transportation, Wine Tour Guide, Winter Transportation, and more.

HOW TO APPLY 

If you’re a high-caliber, hard-working, intelligent person who possesses most of what this position requires, or are intrigued by the other opportunities, please email [email protected] 1) a personal value proposition* that details why you would be a strong asset to our team in the present and future, plus 2) a results oriented resume* that focuses on quantitative (measurable) accomplishments, rather than vague tasks that are unaccompanied by credible statements.

Because past performance is the best indicator of future performance, we need evidence you were a key contributor previously. Although conveying your pride, self-respect, self-esteem, honor, privilege, and dignity is somewhat of an art, nevertheless, we need a fascinating reason to consider hiring you. What sets you apart? Now is the time to break out the accolades, testimonials, references, plaques, and trophies. What have other people said about you? “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.” Ancient Hebrew Proverb

* “A personal value proposition”

* “A results-orientated resume”

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