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Volunteer Retail Assistant - Invercargill

Organisation:

New Zealand Red Cross

Category:

Retail

Hours:

Both/Flexible

Locations:

Invercargill

Red Cross Retail Shops provide affordable shopping for the community, funding for their humanitarian work, and support sustainability through recycling unwanted items. 

This role involves engaging with customers at the checkout, so being comfortable and confident in a customer-facing environment is important, while also being happy to help with a range of other tasks around the shop, including behind the scenes. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Their retail shop volunteers help through a variety of ways, including:

  • Unpacking and sorting goods.
  • Light cleaning duties are also available.
  • Interacting/chatting with customers.
  • Restocking and merchandising the shop.

This is an exciting opportunity to use your many skills, meet some amazing people, learn new things, and help your community all at the same time. Volunteers can gain personal satisfaction by helping out and being involved, as well as learn various aspects of retail operations.

Volunteers can expect:

  • An induction and on-the-job training
  • To start off with a buddy until you are confident in the tasks to work independently
  • A staff member as well as other volunteers in the shop for support and guidance

Requirements

Ideal for someone who is:

  • Friendly, with good communication skills and enjoys interacting with people.
  • Positive, with a can-do attitude
  • Customer-focused
  • Reliable and trustworthy
  • Physically able to do some lifting occasionally
  • Looking to develop retail skills
  • Interested in design (bonus!)

A Ministry of Justice background check is required for this role.

Time commitment

  • Flexible days and hours - currently a high need on Tuesdays, Wednesdays Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.
  • Morning and afternoon shifts available.
  • Ideally, available for a minimum half-day shift, from 9-1pm or 1-5pm.

The store is open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, and Saturday 9am-3pm

Getting started

The first step is to express your interest by filling out the form below. We will then put you in touch directly with the organisation for more information on the role and how to proceed.

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