Deputy Shop Manager (Glasgow) (TRD4622)

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 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 in opposition to ladies. 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, 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 doable 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 rising 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 doable.

The Position of our Deputy Store Managers

Commercially conscious and continually searching for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage their groups and create a secure and energised work atmosphere. They’ve excessive requirements, a powerful drive to attain outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.

The position of the deputy store supervisor is empowered, diverse, busy and offers the chance to work with some wonderful folks. Store managers are pivotal for the success of our enterprise and might 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 working the store within the supervisor’s absence. 

Typically the one paid member of workers, our managers and deputy managers are snug on this atmosphere, actually get pleasure from working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Wonderful communicators, they’re artistic, and all the time search for alternatives to draw new supporters every single 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 folks and adults. Oxfam expects all workers and volunteers to share this dedication via 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 various backgrounds to use.

Key Abilities and Competencies required

• Capability to assist improvement and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various crew who’re in a position to preserve day after day actions of the store.
• Some business consciousness with capacity to assist efficient retail processes and robust merchandising
• Capability to work collaboratively with the Store Supervisor, and to construct optimistic relationships with different colleagues. present wonderful customer support, and interact with local people and different civil society organisation
• Capability to reveal resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the position and handle conflicting calls for searching for acceptable assist, recommendation and steerage when wanted.
• Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret fundamental monetary reviews, monitor budgets and preserve retailers administrative methods.

apply 

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 will likely be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which may embrace legal information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and weak folks very severely; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this put up will likely be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service verify (DBS), as this position includes unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.

For full info surrounding DBS and the emptiness, please view the total 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 want equality, range and inclusion throughout our group of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to turning into a extra various workforce, higher in a position to sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world right now.

To do this:

• We have to dismantle the unequal energy buildings that exist in all places, 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 create.
• We would like and wish everybody, and meaning we want you.