FEATURED JOB OPENING: GENERAL MANAGER COUPLE FOR SMALL CARIBBEAN RESORT - Virgin Islands

         Our small, but growing, Caribbean resort is seeking a full-time, permanent, friendly, high energy, responsible, and technically skilled couple to manage and maintain the daily operations of our beautiful, quiet and fun island facility. The management couple must be customer focused with excellent leadership and communications skills, and the ability to comfortably interact in a multi-cultural community setting. The management couple will perform a variety of on-site supervisory and administrative functions while also being responsive to the resort owner.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as resort’s onsite point of contact with responsibility for hospitality-related functions including, guest check in and check out, inventory, guest inquiries or complaints

• Supervises maintenance and landscaping needs and manages staff to immediately address mechanical issues including electrical, plumbing, laundry equipment, A/C, appliances, diesel generator, etc.

• Ensures that resort is safe, clean and well maintained

• Directs, supervises and evaluates work of resort staff and makes personnel employment decisions, as necessary

• Accurately plans and budgets time and financial resources

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in hotel management/engineering or comparable education with ten years' experience is required

• Excellent skills in leadership, fostering teamwork and verbal and written communications are essential

• Must have exceptional knowledge of facility engineering and general construction; a sharp eye for details and the ability to handle on site projects

• Proficiency in MS Office with a working knowledge of related computer systems and software

• Strong working knowledge of developing budgets and organizational time planning

• Able to handle pressure during stressful situations and exhibit large amounts of patience and caring for guests and employees while providing excellent customer service

• Must be creative, physically active, non-smoking, drug-free and be able to accommodate a flexible schedule

• As the position will have fiduciary responsibilities, applicants must have verifiable good credit, references will be checked.

Benefits and Compensation

Salary will be commensurate with experience

Private housing, utilities, car and cell phone are included in benefit package.