Shop Manager (Southampton) (TRD4631)

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, 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, 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 attainable 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 attainable.

 

The Function of our Store Managers 

 

Commercially conscious and continuously searching for new enterprise alternatives, store managers inspire their groups and create a secure and energised work atmosphere. They’ve excessive requirements, a powerful drive to attain outcomes and are accountable for his or her enterprise.

 

The function of the store supervisor is empowered, assorted, 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 a lot of the duties inside the store, together with operating the store within the supervisor’s absence. 

 

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

 

Please word: It is a furnishings retailer. Logistics driving and supply expertise can be helpful.

 

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 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 range and gender equality inside our organisation and encourage candidates from various backgrounds to use.

 

Key Abilities and Competencies required

 

• Important management qualities and expertise. (E)
• Skill to construct, retain and develop a crew. (E)
• Robust drive to attain outcomes by way of others. (E)
• Skill to delegate, coach and pay attention. (E)
• Enjoys working with folks and has a pleasant and approachable method. (E)
• Skill to handle time beneath conflicting priorities. (E)
• Skill to show resilience to the on a regular basis pressures that include the function. (E)
• Glorious communication abilities.(E)
• Skill to inspire self and others. (E)
• Excessive stage of motivation, enthusiasm and a way of enjoyable. (E)
• Open and adaptable to vary and capable of help others by way of it. (E)
• Industrial consciousness and judgement. (D)
• Skill to ascertain and preserve profitable retail processes and merchandising. (E)
• Skill to know and interpret fundamental monetary stories. (D)
• IT literacy and numeracy abilities. (Utilizing e mail programs and on-line assets; use and perceive fundamental spreadsheets and phrase processing packages. Concentrate on and be open to the function of social networking and ecommerce.) (E)  
• Keen and required to stick to Oxfam’s ideas and values (click here) in addition to the promotion of range and gender rights (click here).  (E)
• Understanding of and dedication to stick to fairness, range, gender, baby security and workers well being and wellbeing ideas. (E)

 

The best way to apply 

 

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

 

All gives of employment will likely be topic to passable references and applicable screening checks, which might embrace felony information and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB takes its obligation to guard the rights of kids and weak folks very significantly; subsequently, the profitable candidate for this put up will likely be additionally topic to in depth background checking, together with a Disclosure and Barring Service examine (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 worldwide organisation working to beat poverty and inequality, we want equality, range and inclusion throughout our neighborhood of workers, companions and volunteers. Collectively, we’re dedicated to changing into a extra various workforce, higher capable of sort out the worldwide challenges that face our world immediately.

 

To do this:

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