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Superstore Manager
Foss Island Retail Park, York, North Yorkshire
We are committed to paying the Real Living Wage.
About Us
Yorkshire is one of the regions hardest hit by cancer. Together, we can change this.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a charity dedicated to funding research so that you and those you love live longer healthier lives, free of cancer.
Thanks to supporters, the charity funds vital cancer research and pioneers innovative new services for people with cancer. These life-giving medical breakthroughs are helping more people survive cancer – in Yorkshire, and beyond.
As an inclusive employer, our aim is to ensure our workforce reflects the rich diversity of our region. We believe a diverse workforce is vital to us taking action to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer more effectively in Yorkshire. We offer equal opportunities regardless of race, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnerships.
The Benefits
We offer all employees a wide range of benefits including an enhanced contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service), flexible working arrangements, private medical insurance, enhanced maternity leave, career progression, learning and development, wellbeing initiatives, free onsite parking and a whole lot more.
We’ve got a strong set of values that inform everything we do and we’re looking for people who are aligned with these. As our Superstore Manager, you will put people in Yorkshire at the heart of everything you do, unite with colleagues and other organisations in this cause, and dare to think big and bold to make positive solutions happen.
The Role
The role of Superstore Manager involves managing the day-to-day operation of the charity’s first superstore including managing a team of 18 employees consisting of the Deputy Superstore Manager, Department Team Leaders, Superstore Assistants and a team of volunteers, ensuring accurate accounting and handling of assets, delivering high standards of customer service, and adhering to all charity policies and procedures.
You will lead by example and ensure that employees, volunteers, supporters, donors, and customers understand how their contributions are making a difference to the lives of people in Yorkshire and beyond.
Specifically, you will be responsible for:
Driving Success in Our Charity Superstore
- Leading on visual merchandising and display to create a welcoming and inspiring shopping experience that reflects our brand and values.
- Ensuring efficient stock management and generation, so our shop floor is full of high-quality, desirable items that attract customers.
- Maintaining impeccable shop standards and ensuring the store layout supports both customer engagement and operational efficiency.
- Managing and being accountable for implementing and complying with agreed shop operating policy and standards including Health and Safety and Trading Standards.
- Building relationships and working closely with wider functions across the charity such as Facilities, Marketing, Volunteer, and social media teams to ensure the plans are fulfilled and executed.
Efficient Stock Management
- Oversee effective stockroom systems to ensure smooth processing and redistribution of donations, including identifying high-value or surplus stock for resale through online marketplaces or other Yorkshire Cancer Research stores.
- Conduct regular stocktakes to maintain accountability and efficiency.
Inspiring and developing a passionate team
- Recruiting, developing, and retaining talent, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment.
- Conducting regular performance development reviews for paid employees, implementing and supporting personal development and growth.
- Providing necessary training and resources, ensuring the shop is always adequately resourced and prepared to operate seamlessly, even in your absence.
- Having line manager responsibility for the shop management team, working together to ensure there is management and team cover and sufficient volunteers to operate all trading hours.
- Implementing appropriate training and support for all volunteers to ensure they adhere to all guidelines and legislation including Health and Safety and GDPR.
- Ensuring that all charity policies, shop standards and operating procedures are communicated effectively to all volunteers and are maintained and followed consistently.
Delivering financial excellence
- Data-driven decision-making, using shop performance insights to inform strategies that maximise income and profitability.
- Accurate record keeping of items donated and the amount paid for each item for Gift Aid tax reclaim purposes.
- All shop administration including cash handling and banking functions, ensuring the team work to the highest standard, accurately and on time, always adhering to charity policy and procedures.
- Reviewing weekly sales figures and from these identifying ways to maintain and maximise income, ensuring information is accessible to volunteers so they are kept up to date.
- Working with the Head of Retail and Finance team to set challenging sales budgets and stretch targets that are achievable or exceedable, and drive and motivate your team to achieve and exceed them.
Championing exceptional customer and supporter service
- You’ll create an environment where every supporter and customer feel valued, ensuring:
- Outstanding service across all touchpoints, from the shop floor to the till point, including seamless and secure payment processes.
- Any complaints are managed effectively and efficiently, escalating to Head Office where they cannot be resolved at a local level.
Building Connections and Driving Engagement
- You’ll act as a proactive ambassador for Yorkshire Cancer Research, generating support and income through:
- Engaging with the local community and businesses to secure donations, build partnerships, and promote the charity.
- Maximising the use of community spaces in-store, hosting events that align with our mission while driving additional income and fostering engagement.
Ensuring Compliance and Best Practices
- You’ll uphold the highest standards of compliance, ensuring adherence to Yorkshire Cancer Research policies in:
- Health and safety, safeguarding, and security.
- Administrative procedures and People management policies.
About You
To be considered for this role, you will need:
- To be educated to A Level or equivalent or have experience in a similar role at a similar level.
· To have experience of managing a large and diverse team of people/volunteers including recruitment and development.
· To have previous retail experience in the charity sector.
· To have previous experience with a high-volume Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) retailer is desirable.
· Experience of meeting and exceeding targets within a retail environment.
· Experience of opening a new shop is desirable.
· Experience in managing high-volume retail environments.
- Strong organisational and managerial skills with success in previous roles leading teams.
· A commercial mindset with proven profit and loss management.
· To be creative and forward thinking.
· To be to handle challenging situations with confidence and professionalism, finding solutions and maintaining composure under pressure.
· Confidence with technology, being able to adapt to new systems and processes to support the smooth running of Superstore operations.
· A willingness to complete our pre-employment checks (to be undertaken once the role is offered and accepted) which include:
o A check on your employment history by seeking two references
o A check on your eligibility to work in the UK as per the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006
o A check on your highest educational achievement(s)
o A check on your professional qualification(s)
o A DBS check at an enhanced level with the children’s barred list due to the requirement to supervise and train volunteers under the age of 18 years.
Application
Before applying, please visit our Careers Page to view the full role profile and find out more about working for Yorkshire Cancer Research.
To apply please submit a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for the role to Claire Wooldridge, Head of People, before 18 November 2025. Please read our privacy notice before applying.
Yorkshire Cancer Research is a responsible and flexible employer. We welcome any discussion for flexible working at the interview/offer stage where we will consider an individual’s circumstances against the needs of the charity.
We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. If we can make any reasonable adjustments to support your application please the People Team.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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SHOP MANAGER - NEW STORE SOLIHULL
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £26,522 - £30,935 per annum
RELIEF ASSISTANT SHOP MANAGERs (RASM)
FULL-TIME – 37.5 HOURS PER WEEK
Salary:£23,875 per annum
RELIEF ASSISTANT SHOP MANAGERS (RASMs) x 3
PART-TIME: 22 HOURS PER WEEK
Salary:£14,006 per annum (£23,875 full-time equivalent)
Closing Date: 16 November 2025
DBS Requirement: Basic check
Be the Heart of Our New Shop – Join Birmingham Hospice as a Shop Manager!
Are you a passionate and driven retail professional ready to take the next step in your career?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced, purpose-led environment where your leadership can make a real difference?
At Birmingham Hospice, our charity shops are more than just retail spaces—they’re vital hubs that help fund compassionate care for our community. We’re excited to open our brand-new large multi-format shop in Solihull specialising in furniture as well as clothing, toys, home accessories etc and we are looking for a Shop Manager and 4 Relief Assistant Shop Managers (RASMs) to lead the way.
SHOP MANAGER
What You’ll Be Doing:
· Inspire and lead a dedicated team of staff and volunteers.
· Drive shop performance through smart rota planning and team development.
· Create an inviting and well-organised shopping experience with high-quality stock presentation.
· Champion donations and ensure all items are sorted, sized, and priced for sale.
· Maintain a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for customers and team members.
What We’re Looking For:
· Proven retail experience—charity sector experience is a bonus!
· A passion for exceptional customer service and community engagement.
· Strong communication and organisational skills.
· Confidence working with sales targets and performance metrics.
RELIEF ASSISTANT SHOP MANAGERS
As a Relief Assistant Shop Manager, you’ll play a vital role in launching our exciting new store in Solihull — bringing leadership, and heart to the team. You’ll also be a flexible, go-to support across our Solihull shops, stepping in during busy times, staff absences, or holidays to help keep everything running smoothly.
What You’ll Be Doing:
· Supporting and stepping in for Shop Managers to keep daily operations running smoothly
· Leading and motivating volunteers to create a welcoming, high-performing shop environment
· Maximising sales and donations to meet income targets
· Helping with sorting, pricing, and displaying donated goods to showcase their value
· Delivering outstanding customer service to every donor and shopper
We’ll provide all the training you need — what matters most is your enthusiasm, reliability, and drive to make a difference.
What You’ll Gain:
· Generous benefits package including enhanced annual leave and retail discount schemes
· The chance to develop new skills and grow your confidence
· The satisfaction of knowing your work directly supports local families
· A supportive, friendly team that values your contribution
Join Birmingham Hospice and help us turn second-hand treasures into first-class care.
The hospice is committed to developing a dynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We ask you, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help us in this aim. We value each person as an individual – whether they are colleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every person matters.
We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing it enriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love to hear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity will support you to succeed.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
We believe that anyone with a terminal diagnosis deserves to live well and make the very most of the time that remains.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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This is an exciting role in a unique organisation. Our vision is to provide an outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world. We aim to build a vibrant and empowered student community with real influence in UCL and beyond, that enables students to enjoy their time at university; pursue their interests and passions; see the world in new ways; and develop the skills and experience to change the world for the better.
We are a registered charity employing over 100 career staff and 300 student staff, delivering a wide range of services and representative functions for UCL students. We have the widest portfolio of services of any student organisation in the country, managing UCL’s extracurricular programmes for sport, music, drama, dance, media, volunteering, academic societies and intercultural engagement; providing a wide range of fantastic social spaces; leading on student democracy and representation across UCL; and offering excellent student support services.
It's an exciting time to join our growing organisation as we lead the delivery of UCL’s groundbreaking new Student Life Strategy. This is enabling us to build more programmes to improve students’ mental and physical wellbeing, promote genuine equity for all, build students’ skills and confidence, develop their international connections and intercultural skills, and make a real contribution to our local community.
We support hybrid working. Excellent benefits including defined benefit pension scheme and generous holiday entitlement. We are proud of high levels of staff engagement and pride ourselves on being a great place to work. We will consider applications to work on a flexible and job share basis wherever possible.
This is a 0.4 FTE (14.6 hours per week) and permanent role. This role is based at our Bloomsbury campus.
We are looking for a Group Exercise Assistant to support the Fitness Centre Manager by liaising with class instructors, sourcing cover, processing invoices and maintaining up to date information on the website and app. The post holder will be expected to visit TeamUCL Gym sites at Bloomsbury and East to quality check class provision, gather customer feedback and engage with instructors.
Registered Charity
An outstanding experience for all UCL students and to be one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Safety and Assurance Officer
Location: Homebased, based in the Southern Area
Contract: Full time, permanent
Salary: £32,000 gross per annum
Closing Date: 21 November 2025
Are you a Safety Specialist looking for a new opportunity?
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.
We are currently looking for a Safety and Assurance Officer to join our team.
About the role
The Safety & Assurance Officer (SAO) is an employee of the MSSC and a member of the MSSC National Safety Assurance Team (NSAT). This is a home-based role, with a primary focus on the Southern area, predominantly the South-East. The SAO will report to the Head of Safety, Health, and Environment.
The SAO will work closely with other SAOs and will be functionally accountable to:
The Head of Inshore Boating for inshore boat assurance
The Staff Royal Marines Officer for weapons and ammunition safety and security assurance
The role requires regular travel within the area of responsibility and, on occasion within the UK. It will involve evening and some weekend work to fulfil the role’s responsibilities.
Requirements
Qualifications: Good general education and NEBOSH (or equivalent), with completion required during probation if not already held.
Safety & Environmental Management: Experience implementing safety and environmental management systems, conducting risk assessments, and working within formal assurance frameworks.
Incident Management: Experience managing, investigating, and reporting incidents.
Training & Support: Ability to deliver training, guidance, and support to non-specialist staff or volunteers on safety, health, environmental, and assurance matters.
Workload & Volunteer Management: Proven ability to manage a busy workload and effectively support and manage volunteers.
Responsibilities
Join the Marine Society & Sea Cadets as a Safety and Assurance Officer, ensuring the highest standards of safety, health, environment (SHE), and operational compliance across our units and facilities.
You’ll lead assurance inspections, maintain compliance with legislation and organisational regulations, and support the safe management of weapons, armouries, and inshore boating activities. Working closely with other members of the National Safety and Assurance Team (NSAT) and Area teams, you’ll oversee safety at events, camps, and competitions, conduct audits, and monitor incident reporting.
This role plays a vital part in upholding the safety and welfare of our cadets and volunteers through proactive assurance, training, and continuous improvement.
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Benefits
25 days annual leave per annum, increasing with length of service
Hybrid working for many roles
Volunteering Leave
Life assurance (4x salary)
Private medical insurance
Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
Cycle to work scheme
Access to the Marine Society Digital Library
Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
Additional Information
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.
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Job Title: People and Data Reward Officer
Location: Homeworking with a requirement to occasionally work at Head Office (Vauxhall, London)
Salary: £34,093.64 per annum (Inclusive of £3,000 London Weighting, which may not be applicable depending on your home location and any agreed permanent homeworking arrangement)
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Are you passionate about making a difference through data and people focused initiatives? Refuge is looking for a People Data and Reward Officer to join our People and Culture team.
In this varied role, you’ll report to the People Data and Reward Manager and play a key part in ensuring the smooth and accurate delivery of our monthly payroll, annual pay awards, and employee benefits. You’ll also contribute to the ongoing development and upgrading of our HR systems, alongside providing quality and timely data.
In this role, you will be delivering a responsive range of effective, compliant and customer focused people services that contribute to an inclusive culture, enabling colleagues to sustain high levels of performance and helps Refuge to achieve its Strategic Objectives, and be a great place to work.
You will also be delivering accurate and timely processing of the monthly payroll including the implementation of the annual pay award and employee benefits. The post holder will also be responsible for supporting broader team activities associated with the development of the HR system and pay and reward strategies.
Job Closing Date: 09:00am 25 November 2025
Interview Date: 5 December 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Job Title: Independent Gender Violence Advocate (IGVA)
Location: The Gaia Centre, Lambeth
Salary: £28,857.12 per annum, Inclusive of London Weighting, which may not be applicable depending on your home location and any agreed permanent homeworking arrangement
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
We want kind and empathic people to work at Refuge, who believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, are experts in their area of knowledge, want to make a positive difference and improve the lives of the women and children we support.
The independent gender violence advocate will work closely with victims of gender-based violence from the point of crisis, to provide high quality independent advocacy and support to survivors of gender-based violence at the highest risk and their children.
The role will be part of increasing the ability of partner agencies to recognise, reject and respond appropriately and safely to all forms of gender-based violence (including domestic violence, sexual, financial and emotional abuse, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour-based violence). The job involves working within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors. The post holder will empower survivors by providing them with emotional, practical and personal welfare support. The job involves ensuring that women are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment, enabling them to access their rights, make decisions and increase their life options.
You will work within a multi-agency framework consisting of the MARAC and local partnership protocols and procedures that prioritise the safety of survivors. The job involves informing survivors of the full range of civil, criminal, and practical options that might increase their safety.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
Closing Date: 09:00am 26 November 2025
Interview Date: 4 and 5 December 2025
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.