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You will balance retail excellence with creativity and localism – maintaining the shop's strong reputation while driving income growth and expanding an already diverse volunteer team of 20+ individuals.

In this role, you will:

• Build, lead and inspire a diverse and motivated volunteer team, championing volunteer recruitment and development to ensure the shop thrives.
• Drive income and profitability by monitoring financial performance, identifying opportunities, and maximising every area of the business.
• Deliver retail excellence through effective day-to-day operational management, ensuring compliance, efficiency and high standards across the shop.
• Maintain and evolve the shop's distinctive, design-led proposition – translating local community trends into compelling product, merchandising and customer experience.
• Act as an ambassador for Save the Children UK within the local community, strengthening relationships and enhancing the shop's reputation as a destination charity retailer.
• Champion safeguarding, risk management and compliance, role modelling our values and creating a safe, inclusive environment for volunteers and customers alike.

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Proven leadership experience managing staff or volunteers in a retail or customer-facing environment (fashion or charity retail experience is highly desirable).
• A strong commercial mindset, with experience working to targets, analysing performance and adapting to drive results.
• Excellent customer service skills and the ability to create an engaging, welcoming in-store experience.
• Confidence using a range of IT systems, including MS Office and reporting or volunteer management platforms.
• The ability to build and maintain positive relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, motivating and inspiring others.
• A self-motivated, flexible and resilient approach, with the ability to work at pace in a dynamic retail environment.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.