Bookshop Manager (Kingsbridge) (TRD4643)

About Us

Oxfam is a worldwide 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 girls. And we gained’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, growth and campaigning, in additional than 90 international locations. 

Oxfam Goal

To work with others to beat poverty and struggling 

Buying and selling Goal

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

About our Oxfam Outlets

Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam retailers are on the coronary heart of the charity and their neighborhood, 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 potential.

The Function of our Store Managers

Commercially conscious and consistently in search of new enterprise alternatives, store managers inspire their groups and create a secure and energised work atmosphere. They’ve excessive requirements, a powerful drive to realize outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.

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

Typically the one paid member of employees, our managers are snug on this atmosphere, actually get pleasure from working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Glorious communicators, they’re inventive, and all the time search for alternatives to draw new supporters day by day.

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 individuals and adults. Oxfam expects all employees 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 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)
• Means to construct, retain and develop a group. (E)
• Robust drive to realize outcomes by way of others. (E)
• Means to delegate, coach and hear. (E)
• Enjoys working with individuals and has a pleasant and approachable method. (E)
• Means to handle time underneath conflicting priorities. (E)
• Means to reveal resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the function. (E)
• Glorious communication abilities.(E)
• Means to inspire self and others. (E)
• Excessive stage of motivation, enthusiasm and a way of enjoyable. (E)
• Open and adaptable to alter and in a position to assist others by way of it. (E)
• Business consciousness and judgement. (D)
• Means to ascertain and preserve profitable retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Means to know and interpret primary monetary reviews. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy abilities. (Utilizing electronic mail techniques 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 rules 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 employees well being and wellbeing rules. (E)

How one can apply 

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

All provides of employment can be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which may embrace felony information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and weak individuals very significantly; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this put up can be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service test (DBS), as this function includes unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.

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