Shop Manager (Brighton) (TRD4620)

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 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, 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 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 doable.

The Position of our Store Managers

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

The function of the store supervisor is empowered, different, busy and offers 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, through which volunteers are empowered to take over many of the duties inside the store, together with working the store within the supervisor’s absence. 

Typically the one paid member of employees, our managers are comfy on this atmosphere, 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 on daily basis.

Please word: This function requires engaged on Saturdays. 

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 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 Expertise and Competencies required

• Vital management qualities and expertise. (E)
• Capacity to construct, retain and develop a group. (E)
• Robust drive to realize outcomes by others. (E)
• Capacity to delegate, coach and pay attention. (E)
• Enjoys working with folks and has a pleasant and approachable method. (E)
• Capacity to handle time below conflicting priorities. (E)
• Capacity to display resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the function. (E)
• Wonderful communication abilities.(E)
• Capacity to encourage self and others. (E)
• Excessive stage of motivation, enthusiasm and a way of enjoyable. (E)
• Open and adaptable to vary and in a position to assist others by it. (E)
• Business consciousness and judgement. (D)
• Capacity to ascertain and keep profitable retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Capacity to know and interpret primary monetary experiences. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy abilities. (Utilizing e-mail techniques and on-line sources; use and perceive primary spreadsheets and phrase processing packages. Pay attention to and be open to the function of social networking and ecommerce.) (E)  
• Keen and required to stick to Oxfam’s rules and values (click here) in addition to the promotion of variety and gender rights (click here).  (E)
• Understanding of and dedication to stick to fairness, variety, gender, youngster security and employees well being and wellbeing rules. (E)

Learn how to apply 

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

All affords of employment shall be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which might embrace legal data and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of youngsters and susceptible folks very severely; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up shall be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service test (DBS), as this function entails 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 world organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we’d like equality, variety 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 right this moment.

To do this:

• We have to dismantle the unequal energy buildings that exist all over the place, this together with Oxfam and the broader growth 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 bring about.
• We would like and want everybody, and meaning we’d like you.