Area Manager (Kent) (TRD4636)

About Us

 

Oxfam is a world motion of individuals working collectively to finish the injustice of poverty. Meaning we deal with the inequality that retains folks poor. Collectively we save, defend and rebuild lives. When catastrophe strikes, we assist folks construct higher lives for themselves, and for others. We tackle points like land rights, local weather change and discrimination towards girls. And we received’t cease till each individual on the planet can get pleasure from life free from poverty.

 

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working collectively with companions and native communities within the areas of humanitarian, improvement and campaigning, in additional than 90 nations. 

 

Oxfam Function

 

To work with others to beat poverty and struggling 

 

Buying and selling Function

 

To make as a lot cash as attainable to beat poverty and struggling

 

About our Oxfam Retailers

 

Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam retailers are on the coronary heart of the charity and their group, elevating important funds and growing public consciousness of what we do. They’re all the time guided by our values of empowerment, accountability and inclusiveness and focussed on making as a lot cash as attainable.

 

The Function of our Space Managers

 

On this function, you’ll straight handle and oversee all features of Oxfam store administration inside an outlined geographical remit and to be instrumental within the progress and improvement of the retailers and our on-line enterprise in step with our feminist rules and values. By way of sturdy management you’ll lead and empower a crew of workers (and volunteers) to ship excessive ranges of fantastic customer support whereas providing help, course and inspiration when wanted. You’ll develop a robust sense of teamwork working collectively to ship excessive ranges of efficiency throughout the entire enterprise. You may be accountable for the monetary administration of the world budgets and to be proactive within the total strategic course and improvement of the enterprise and its folks.

 

Please be aware: that is an Space Supervisor function masking Kent, from Gravesend to Tunbridge Wells throughout to Folkestone.  Candidates ought to reside inside or on the border of the world.  

 

Our Values and Dedication to Safeguarding

 

Oxfam is dedicated to stopping any kind of undesirable behaviour at work together with sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and monetary misconduct; and selling the welfare of kids, younger folks and adults. Oxfam expects all workers and volunteers to share this dedication by way of our code of conduct. We place a excessive precedence on making certain that solely those that share and exhibit our values are recruited to work for us.

 

We’re dedicated to making sure range and gender equality inside our organisation and encourage candidates from various backgrounds to use.

 

Key Expertise and Competencies required

• Distinctive management qualities and expertise of managing a big and various crew.
• Proof of sturdy drive to attain outcomes by way of others
• Means to construct, retain and develop an space crew.
• Sturdy industrial consciousness and judgement
• Expertise of profitable efficiency administration and battle administration
• Means to inspire self and others.
• Means to handle time and organise personal workload beneath conflicting priorities.
• Extremely organised, with the flexibility to adapt shortly to vary.
• Means to exhibit resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the function.
• Means to work in co-operation with help groups at peer degree.
• Glorious communication expertise in a wide range of media and audiences.
• Sturdy IT, literacy and numeracy expertise.
• A full, clear driving licence

 

Learn how to apply 

 

As a part of your on-line software, please add your updated CV and a masking letter explaining your suitability towards the important standards within the job profile.  

 

All gives of employment might be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which might embrace legal data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and susceptible folks very significantly; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this submit might be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service examine (DBS), as this function includes unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.

 

For full info surrounding DBS and the emptiness, please view the complete job description. 

 

A thriving various Oxfam:

 

It’s folks energy that brings about change. To play our half as a world organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we’d like equality, range and inclusion throughout our group of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to turning into a extra various workforce, higher capable of deal with the worldwide challenges that face our world as we speak.

 

To do this:

• We have to dismantle the unequal energy buildings that exist in every single place, this together with Oxfam and the broader improvement and charity sectors.
• We want an inclusive Oxfam the place everybody can deliver who they’re to our work and feels celebrated for the variations they bring about.
• We would like and wish everybody, and meaning we’d like you.