Deputy Shop Manager (Gloucester Road, London) (TRD4614)

About Us

Oxfam is a worldwide motion of individuals working collectively to finish the injustice of poverty. Which means we deal with 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 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 Objective

To work with others to beat poverty and struggling 

Buying and selling Objective

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 neighborhood, elevating very 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 attainable.

The Position of our Deputy Store Managers

Commercially conscious and consistently on the lookout for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage their groups and create a protected and energised work atmosphere. They’ve excessive requirements, a robust drive to attain outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.

The position of the deputy store supervisor is empowered, various, busy and offers the chance to work with some wonderful 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 many of the duties throughout 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 atmosphere, actually take pleasure in working with others and are nice at delegating to their groups. Glorious communicators, they’re artistic, and all the time search for alternatives to draw new supporters day-after-day.

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 way of our code of conduct. We place a excessive precedence on guaranteeing that solely those that share and exhibit 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 Expertise and Competencies required

• Capacity to help improvement and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various workforce who’re in a position to keep daily actions of the store.
• Some business consciousness with capacity to help efficient retail processes and powerful merchandising
• Capacity to work collaboratively with the Store Supervisor, and to construct optimistic relationships with different colleagues. present wonderful customer support, and have interaction with area people and different civil society organisation
• Capacity to exhibit resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the position and handle conflicting calls for searching for acceptable help, recommendation and steerage when wanted.
• Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret primary monetary experiences, monitor budgets and keep outlets administrative programs.

Please bear in mind, some weekend working shall be required.  Whereas the position is marketed for 28.8 hours (4 days) per week, we’re open to contemplating candidates who’re in a position to decide to working 2-3 days per week as effectively.  

Easy methods to apply 

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

All affords of employment shall be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which may embody felony information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and weak individuals very significantly; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this publish shall be additionally topic to intensive 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 complete job description. 

A thriving various Oxfam:

It’s individuals energy that brings about change. To play our half as a worldwide organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we want equality, range and inclusion throughout our neighborhood of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra various workforce, higher in a position to deal with the worldwide challenges that face our world right this moment.

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 convey who they’re to our work and feels celebrated for the variations they bring about.
• We wish and wish everybody, and meaning we want you.