Contract Type:Permanent Full time
Salary: £25,907 - £28,786 full time - based on 35 hours
Location: Belfast
Closing Date:17 August 2025
About Them:
Our client is a non-governmental, international humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world's poorest countries. Their mission is to transform the lives of people living in extreme poverty. They work with 25 million people each year, in some of the hardest to reach and most fragile places. Places prone to conflict, natural disasters, climate change and extreme hunger. When an emergency strikes, they are among the first on the ground. They use their voice to bring the stories of extreme poverty to world leaders.
About the role:
To managing all aspects of the shop, including recruiting and leading the volunteer team in order to maximise the income generated for their work. You will be instrumental in making sure the shop is at the hub of the local community, ensuring a steady flow of donations and acting as the face of their organisation and raising public awareness of their campaigns.
You will lead by example and be confident working within a fast-paced retail environment. You will contribute towards the success of the shop by:
• Ensuring a high standard of customer service
• Achieving targets to maximise income
• Maintaining a high standard of visual merchandising
• Actively recruit volunteers
• Generate stock
• Achieving expectations within campaign activities
About you:
As Shop Manager, you will have the opportunity to be part of a small, but dedicated and successful retail team. You will be a highly motivated self-starter who takes full ownership of your role. You will lead and motivate your shop volunteers in maximising the fundraising income for the shop. It will be your chance to demonstrate and further develop your existing strong commercial awareness, relationship management, sales and customer service skills.
This is an exciting time for you to join them as they seek to engage more with local communities and increase support for their work in tackling hunger and transforming lives in some of the poorest places in the world.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
Our client encourages all qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Their organisation is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality.
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT
It is the nature of this post that weekend working (Saturday) and occasional additional seasonal hours are part of the normal working week. Working hours will also involve some evening work to meet the needs of the post.
Full time - 35 hours per week, permanent contract. Flexibility is required.
Appointment will be subject to a six-month probationary period
The successful post holder will be required to complete a Basic AccessNI check and sign a criminal records self-declaration form.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from working with their organisation. This will depend on the nature of the position, together with the circumstances and background of your offences.
Due to the urgency of filling this position, they reserve the right to close the recruitment activity earlier if they have received applications, which match the role. They encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid a potentially earlier closing date.
You may have experience of the following: Charity Shop Manager, Retail Store Manager, Charity Retail Supervisor, Community Shop Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Retail Team Leader, Charity Operations Manager, Shop Supervisor, Retail Assistant Manager, Community Fundraising Coordinator, etc.
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