Shop Manager (Purley) (TRD4523)

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 girls. And we gained’t cease till each individual on the planet can take pleasure in 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 Retailers

Open for enterprise since 1948, Oxfam outlets are on the coronary heart of the charity and their group, elevating very important funds and growing 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 Function of our Store Managers 

Commercially conscious and continuously on the lookout for new enterprise alternatives, 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 position of the store supervisor is empowered, diverse, 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, by which volunteers are empowered to take over a lot of the duties inside the store, together with operating the store within the supervisor’s absence. 

Usually the one paid member of workers, our managers are comfy on this setting, actually take pleasure in 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 every single 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 workers and volunteers to share this dedication by way 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 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)
• Potential to construct, retain and develop a workforce. (E)
• Robust drive to realize outcomes by way of others. (E)
• Potential to delegate, coach and hear. (E)
• Enjoys working with folks and has a pleasant and approachable method. (E)
• Potential to handle time below conflicting priorities. (E)
• Potential to show resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the position. (E)
• Wonderful communication abilities.(E)
• Potential to encourage self and others. (E)
• Excessive degree of motivation, enthusiasm and a way of enjoyable. (E)
• Open and adaptable to alter and in a position to assist others by way of it. (E)
• Business consciousness and judgement. (D)
• Potential to ascertain and keep profitable retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Potential to know and interpret primary monetary studies. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy abilities. (Utilizing e mail techniques and on-line assets; use and perceive primary spreadsheets and phrase processing packages. Concentrate on and be open to the position 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 workers well being and wellbeing rules. (E)

Methods to apply 

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

All presents of employment will probably 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 susceptible folks very severely; due to this fact, the profitable candidate for this publish will probably be additionally topic to intensive background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service test (DBS), as this position 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 worldwide organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we want equality, variety and inclusion throughout our group 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 in the present day.

To try this:

• We have to dismantle the unequal energy constructions that exist in every single place, this together with Oxfam and the broader improvement and charity sectors.
• We want an inclusive Oxfam the place everybody can carry who they’re to our work and feels celebrated for the variations they carry.
• We would like and want everybody, and which means we want you.