Working at Oxfam
About Us
Oxfam is a worldwide motion of individuals working collectively to finish the injustice of poverty. Meaning 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 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 Objective
To work with others to beat poverty and struggling
Buying and selling Objective
To make as a lot cash as doable 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 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 Position of our Deputy Store Managers
Commercially conscious and always searching for new enterprise alternatives, deputy store managers encourage their groups and create a protected and energised work setting. 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, various, busy and provides the chance to work with some superb folks. Store managers are pivotal for the success of our enterprise and may make an actual distinction. Oxfam operates a volunteer working mannequin, wherein volunteers are empowered to take over many of the duties throughout the store, together with operating 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 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 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 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 numerous backgrounds to use.
Key Expertise and Competencies required
- Means to assist improvement and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and numerous group who’re capable of preserve each day actions of the store.
- Some business consciousness with capability to assist efficient retail processes and robust merchandising
- Means 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
- Means to exhibit 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, capable of interpret primary monetary stories, monitor budgets and preserve outlets administrative methods.
Tips on how to apply
As a part of your on-line software, please add your updated CV and a masking letter explaining your suitability in opposition to the important standards within the job profile.
All gives of employment shall 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 susceptible folks very critically; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this submit shall be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service verify (DBS), as this position entails unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.
For full data surrounding DBS and the emptiness, please view the total job description.
A thriving numerous 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 changing into a extra numerous workforce, higher capable of sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world at present.
To try this:
- We have to dismantle the unequal energy constructions that exist in all places, this together with Oxfam and the broader improvement and charity sectors.
- We want 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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