Working at Oxfam
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, 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 in opposition to ladies. 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, growth and campaigning, in additional than 90 international locations.
Oxfam Function
To work with others to beat poverty and struggling
Buying and selling Function
To make as a lot cash as potential 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 neighborhood, 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 potential.
The Position of our Deputy Store Managers
Commercially conscious and continually in search of new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers inspire their groups and create a protected and energised work setting. They’ve excessive requirements, a robust drive to realize outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.
The position of the deputy store supervisor is empowered, assorted, busy and provides 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, through which volunteers are empowered to take over a lot 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 and deputy managers are comfy on this setting, actually get pleasure from working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Wonderful communicators, they’re inventive, and at all times search for alternatives to draw new supporters daily.
Please remember that is position is a 6 month fixed-term contract.
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 our code of conduct. We place a excessive precedence on making certain that solely those that share and display 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 numerous backgrounds to use.
Key Expertise and Competencies required
- Capacity to assist growth and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and numerous group who’re in a position to keep daily actions of the store.
- Some industrial consciousness with means to assist efficient retail processes and powerful merchandising
- Capacity to work collaboratively with the Store Supervisor, and to construct optimistic relationships with different colleagues. present glorious customer support, and have interaction with local people and different civil society organisation
- Capacity to display resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the position and handle conflicting calls for looking for applicable assist, recommendation and steering when wanted.
- Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret fundamental monetary stories, monitor budgets and keep outlets administrative methods.
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As a part of your on-line utility, please add your updated CV and a overlaying letter explaining your suitability in opposition to the important standards within the job profile.
All presents of employment can be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which may embrace prison information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and susceptible individuals very severely; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this submit can be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service test (DBS), as this position includes unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.
For full data surrounding DBS and the emptiness, please view the total 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’d like equality, variety and inclusion throughout our neighborhood of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra numerous workforce, higher in a position to sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world at this time.
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 meaning we’d like you.
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