Deputy Shop Manager (Westbourne Grove) (TRD4613)

About Us

Oxfam is a world 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 in opposition to girls. 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, growth 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 Retailers

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 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 secure and energised work setting. 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 folks. Store managers are pivotal for the success of our enterprise and may make an actual distinction. Oxfam operates a volunteer working mannequin, by 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 employees, 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. 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 youngsters, younger folks and adults. Oxfam expects all employees 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 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

• Potential to assist growth and upkeep of profitable, inclusive and various crew who’re in a position to keep everyday actions of the store.
• Some industrial consciousness with capability to assist efficient retail processes and powerful merchandising
• Potential 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
• Potential to show resilience to on a regular basis pressures that include the function and handle conflicting calls for in search of acceptable assist, recommendation and steering when wanted.
• Numerate and monetary literate, in a position to interpret fundamental monetary reviews, monitor budgets and keep retailers administrative techniques.

Please bear in mind, some weekend working might be required.

The way to apply 

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

All presents of employment might be topic to passable references and acceptable screening checks, which may embody legal data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of youngsters and weak folks very severely; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this submit might be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service verify (DBS), as this function entails unsupervised entry to the above-mentioned teams.

For full data 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 world organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we’d like equality, range and inclusion throughout our neighborhood of employees, 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 present.

To try 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 want an inclusive Oxfam the place everybody can convey who they’re to our work and feels celebrated for the variations they create.
• We would like and wish everybody, and which means we’d like you.