
Working at Oxfam
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 individuals poor. Collectively we save, shield 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 received’t cease till each individual 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, 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 attainable to beat poverty and struggling
About our Oxfam Retailers
Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam outlets are on the coronary heart of the charity and their group, elevating important funds and growing public consciousness of what we do. They’re at all times guided by our values of empowerment, accountability and inclusiveness and focussed on making as a lot cash as attainable.
The Function of our Deputy Store Managers
Commercially conscious and continually searching for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage their groups and create a protected and energised work setting. They’ve excessive requirements, a powerful drive to realize outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.
The position of the deputy store supervisor is empowered, different, busy and offers 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.
Usually the one paid member of workers, our managers and deputy managers are snug on this setting, actually take pleasure in working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Glorious communicators, they’re inventive, and at all times search for alternatives to draw new supporters daily.
Please notice: Expertise of On-line Promoting is very fascinating.
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 kids, 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 range and gender equality inside our organisation and encourage candidates from numerous backgrounds to use.
Key Abilities and Competencies required
- Skill to help growth and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and numerous group who’re in a position to keep day after day actions of the store.
- Some industrial consciousness with skill to help efficient retail processes and powerful merchandising
- Skill to work collaboratively with the Store Supervisor, and to construct constructive relationships with different colleagues. present glorious customer support, and have interaction with local people and different civil society organisation
- Skill to reveal resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the position and handle conflicting calls for searching for applicable help, recommendation and steerage when wanted.
- Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret primary monetary stories, monitor budgets and keep outlets administrative techniques.
The best way to apply
As a part of your on-line utility, please add your updated CV and a overlaying letter explaining your suitability towards the important standards within the job profile.
All provides of employment will likely be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which may embody prison data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and susceptible individuals very critically; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up will likely be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service examine (DBS), as this position entails unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.
For full data surrounding DBS and the emptiness, please view the complete job description.
A thriving numerous 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, range and inclusion throughout our group of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra numerous workforce, higher in a position to deal with the worldwide challenges that face our world at the moment.
To try this:
- We have to dismantle the unequal energy buildings that exist in all places, this together with Oxfam and the broader growth 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 want everybody, and which means we want you.
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