When We Need You

From 11/02/2010 onwards

About Opportunity

The role of Homewares Sorter/Pricer is an important one as it is your ability to recognise good quality stock and to price it to maximise our takings whilst providing good value for our customers which will make the shop a success. Your pricing will maximise Oxfam’s profit and will directily be helping us maintain the work that Oxfam does in areas of extreme suffering and poverty. If you are confident on using computers you will have access to looking up collectables and valuables on the internet so as to find appropriate prices. Experience of collectables and valuables is not nessesary as you might have knowledge of linen and soft furnishings, and be able to price curtains and bedlinen for us, taking measurements and noting materials. The Homewares department is a varied one and interest and enthusiasm in any particular aspect will be supported and appreciated. Oxfam is a fun and relaxed place to work – you will get to know your fellow volunteers and work as part of a team (although on some occasions the role will require you to work unsupervised and alone as you sort items in the back shop while other volunteers man the shop floor). As a volunteer for Oxfam you will have access to updates on work done around the country and around the world – as well as alerted to other opportunities for getting involved. There would be opportunity to get involved with other parts of the shop eg. Working till