Working at Oxfam
About Us
Oxfam is a worldwide 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, shield 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 towards 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 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 Outlets
Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam retailers 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 doable.
The Function of our Deputy Store Managers
Commercially conscious and always on the lookout for 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 attain outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.
The function of the deputy store supervisor is empowered, diversified, 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 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 setting, 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.
As well as, please observe, on this function you’ll be chargeable for itemizing donated gadgets of worth on our on-line platforms, optimizing their visibility, and driving gross sales. This place performs a vital function in increasing our on-line presence and enhancing our income streams. You’ll need to be proficient at photographing and itemizing merchandise on-line, monitoring the gross sales of on-line listings, and interacting with prospects on-line in a immediate {and professional} method.
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 folks 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 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
- Capacity to help growth and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various workforce who’re in a position to keep everyday actions of the store.
- Some industrial consciousness with skill 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 interact with area people and different civil society organisation
- Capacity to show resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the function and handle conflicting calls for searching for applicable help, recommendation and steering when wanted.
- Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret primary monetary reviews, monitor budgets and keep retailers administrative techniques.
- Comfy in utilizing on-line platforms and e-commerce techniques to assist drive on-line gross sales
Easy methods to apply
As a part of your on-line software, please add your updated CV and a masking letter explaining your suitability towards the important standards within the job profile.
All gives of employment shall be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which might embody prison information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and susceptible folks very critically; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this put up shall be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service verify (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 folks energy that brings about change. To play our half as a worldwide organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we’d like equality, range and inclusion throughout our neighborhood 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 at this time.
To do this:
- We have to dismantle the unequal energy constructions that exist in every single place, this together with Oxfam and the broader growth and charity sectors.
- We’d like an inclusive Oxfam the place everybody can deliver who they’re to our work and feels celebrated for the variations they create.
- We wish and want everybody, and meaning we’d like you.
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