Assistant Retail Manager - Part-Time

• Fast paced and rewarding retail role in pre-loved homewares store
• Permanent full time (36 hours) position, working Tuesday to Saturday
• Maximise retail income to help provide Hospice services to your community

Our Harbour Hospice culture is built upon trust, connection, care and professional interactions that are delivered with our values at the core. Our values are more than words. They are the foundation of every interaction we have with patients, family, whānau, our community and each other. We welcome applications from all backgrounds who share our values of aroha (compassionate), tautikanga (professional), and mō te katoa (inclusive).

Your role as Assistant Retail Manager will give you a strong sense of purpose as you help connect the community with the care hospice provides. You’ll contribute to raising a third of Harbour Hospice’s annual funding needs. You’ll enjoy an extremely busy and varied day and be able to inject your personality into all you do. You’ll work with volunteers who freely give their time and energy, which will make for some very special and unique relationships. Best of all, you’ll join an organisation where your work matters.

The Assistant Manager role in our Garage Sale Hospice shop at Warkworth is not for the faint hearted! It's physical and busy and you’ll be on your feet and moving most of the day, lifting heavy items like sofas and tables, putting them out in the shop for sale, and keeping things tidy and attractive for customers. You’ll also get out and about in the truck collecting donations and ferrying goods between our stores.

You'll help the manager with the overall running of the shop, ensuring a fantastic customer experience for donors, customers and volunteers alike. You'll get involved in everything from sorting to merchandising, to delegating, completing timesheets and cashing up, to ensuring the volunteers are having a break and a cuppa. As required and once fully trained, you’ll also carry out electrical testing on donated items.

This is a permanent role working Tuesday - Friday 7:30am - 4pm, and Saturday 8:30am - 12:30pm (36 hours per week). 

You live and breathe great customer service. You take pride in your work and have high standards of presentation. You enjoy variety and are willing to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in on the busy days. When it’s quieter, you’ll show your initiative and lend a hand where it’s needed. Ideally you have a background in retail but most importantly, we want someone who builds relationships with people from all walks of life in a collaborative, open and positive way. You will also:

• Have a clean full NZ driver license
• Be physically fit and capable of moving and lifting heavy items
• Have experience of, or willingness to be trained in, electrical testing
• Demonstrate the ability to motivate and lead a team of dedicated volunteers
• Be confident making decisions

Harbour Hospice is one of the largest hospices in Aotearoa and has been caring for tūroro (patients) and their family and whānau for more than 40 years. Every day we care for close to 400 people across the North Shore, Hibiscus Coast and Warkworth/Wellsford regions, supporting them at home, in one of our two inpatient units, or in community programmes offered at each of our three sites. Our specialist services, given free of charge, include medical care, spiritual, cultural, psychological and social support, physiotherapy, occupational and complementary therapy, social activities and more. We are a progressive organisation that puts each patient, whānau and family, our community and our people, at the heart of everything. 

We encourage you share your true self in your CV and cover letter. Tell us what your motivations are and how your work and life experience align with our core values.

Please reach out to Peggy Newton, Recruitment Specialist via [email protected] with any questions, or to arrange a kōrero (chat) before you apply, if that is what you need from this process.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and pre-employment checks including health screening where applicable, are part of our recruitment process.