Bookshop Manager (Hereford) (TRD4628)

About Us

Oxfam is a world motion of individuals working collectively to finish the injustice of poverty. Which means we sort out the inequality that retains individuals poor. Collectively we save, defend and rebuild lives. When catastrophe strikes, we assist individuals construct higher lives for themselves, and for others. We tackle points like land rights, local weather change and discrimination towards ladies. And we received’t cease till each particular person on the planet can take pleasure in 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 neighborhood, elevating very 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 Store Managers 

Commercially conscious and always in search of new enterprise alternatives, store managers encourage their groups and create a protected and energised work atmosphere. They’ve excessive requirements, a robust drive to attain outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.

The function of the store supervisor is empowered, diverse, busy and offers the chance to work with some superb individuals. Store managers are pivotal for the success of our enterprise and may make an actual distinction. Oxfam operates a volunteer working mannequin, during which volunteers are empowered to take over many of the duties inside the store, together with operating the store within the supervisor’s absence. 

Typically the one paid member of workers, our managers are snug on this atmosphere, actually take pleasure in working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Glorious communicators, they’re artistic, and all the time search for alternatives to draw new supporters day-after-day.

Our Values and Dedication to Safeguarding

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

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

Key Expertise and Competencies required

• Vital management qualities and expertise. (E)
• Capacity to construct, retain and develop a group. (E)
• Robust drive to attain outcomes by means of others. (E)
• Capacity to delegate, coach and hear. (E)
• Enjoys working with individuals and has a pleasant and approachable method. (E)
• Capacity to handle time below conflicting priorities. (E)
• Capacity to reveal resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the function. (E)
• Glorious communication abilities.(E)
• Capacity to encourage self and others. (E)
• Excessive degree of motivation, enthusiasm and a way of enjoyable. (E)
• Open and adaptable to vary and in a position to help others by means of it. (E)
• Industrial consciousness and judgement. (D)
• Capacity to ascertain and keep profitable retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Capacity to know and interpret primary monetary reviews. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy abilities. (Utilizing e-mail programs and on-line assets; use and perceive primary spreadsheets and phrase processing packages. Pay attention to and be open to the function of social networking and ecommerce.) (E)  
• Keen and required to stick to Oxfam’s ideas and values (click here) in addition to the promotion of variety and gender rights (click here).  (E)
• Understanding of and dedication to stick to fairness, variety, gender, baby security and workers well being and wellbeing ideas. (E)

How one can 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 presents of employment will probably 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 youngsters and susceptible individuals very severely; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up will probably be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service examine (DBS), as this function entails unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.

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

A thriving various Oxfam:

It’s individuals energy that brings about change. To play our half as a world organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we want equality, variety and inclusion throughout our neighborhood of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra various workforce, higher in a position to sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world at the moment.

To do this:

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