Deputy Shop Manager (Orpington) (TRD4637)

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 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 towards ladies. And we received’t cease till each particular person 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 international locations. 

Oxfam Objective

To work with others to beat poverty and struggling 

Buying and selling Objective

To make as a lot cash as potential to beat poverty and struggling

About our Oxfam Outlets

Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam outlets are on the coronary heart of the charity and their neighborhood, elevating 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 on the lookout for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage 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, diverse, busy and offers the chance to work with some wonderful folks. Store managers are pivotal for the success of our enterprise and may make an actual distinction. Oxfam operates a volunteer working mannequin, during which volunteers are empowered to take over many of the duties throughout 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 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.

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 youngsters, younger folks and adults. Oxfam expects all workers and volunteers to share this dedication by our code of conduct. We place a excessive precedence on guaranteeing 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 various backgrounds to use.

Key Abilities and Competencies required

• Skill to help improvement and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various staff who’re in a position to preserve daily actions of the store.
• Some business consciousness with capacity to help efficient retail processes and robust merchandising
• Skill to work collaboratively with the Store Supervisor, and to construct optimistic relationships with different colleagues. present glorious customer support, and have interaction with area people and different civil society organisation
• Skill to display resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the function 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 stories, monitor budgets and preserve outlets administrative methods.

How one can apply 

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

All affords of employment can be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which may embrace felony data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of youngsters and weak folks very significantly; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up can be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service examine (DBS), as this function 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 folks energy that brings about change. To play our half as a worldwide organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we want equality, variety 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 deal with the worldwide challenges that face our world at the 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 convey.
• We would like and wish everybody, and meaning we want you.