Deputy Shop Manager (Glasgow) (TRD4623)

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 in opposition to ladies. 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, improvement 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 retailers are on the coronary heart of the charity and their group, elevating very important funds and rising 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 continuously searching for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage their groups and create a protected 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 deputy store supervisor is empowered, assorted, 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, through which volunteers are empowered to take over many 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 atmosphere, actually take pleasure in working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Glorious communicators, they’re artistic, and at all times search for alternatives to draw new supporters each 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 workers 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 show 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

• Skill to assist improvement and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various group who’re capable of keep everyday actions of the store.
• Some industrial consciousness with capacity to assist 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 show resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the function and handle conflicting calls for in search of applicable assist, recommendation and steerage when wanted.
• Numerate and monetary literate, capable of interpret primary monetary experiences, monitor budgets and keep retailers administrative techniques.

Tips on how to apply 

As a part of your on-line software, please add your updated CV and a protecting letter explaining your suitability in opposition to the important standards within the job profile.  

All gives of employment will likely be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which might embody felony data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and susceptible individuals very significantly; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up will likely be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service test (DBS), as this function entails 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 individuals energy that brings about change. To play our half as a world organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we’d like equality, range and inclusion throughout our group of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra various workforce, higher capable of sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world at the moment.

To try this:

• We have to dismantle the unequal energy constructions that exist in every single 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 convey.
• We wish and want everybody, and which means we’d like you.