REFERENCE NUMBER: GGVAC2022-981
As part of your role, you will support the team with general administrative and financial tasks to ensure the smooth running of the office and retail area, all within a very busy retail and manufacturing environment
• To maintain accurate filing systems & keep up to date record of finances, sales and customer order information
• To help customers in store & process sales and payments
• To process customer orders accurately for the workshop to manufacture
• To answer telephone calls, electronic communications and correspondence
• Helping ensure the office and retail environment is attractive to both customers and staff
• Be willing to support volunteers and trainees and undertake appropriate training
• Be committed to helping Glasgow Wood uphold its values in relation to people and the environment.
Good customer communication skills
Confident with I.T. including using excel and office generally
Appropriate literacy and numeracy skills
Able to give attention to detail and being accurate
Glasgow Wood Recycling is a social enterprise and charity established in 2006. We are committed to reducing the amount of wood needlessly going to landfill by finding creative and socially inclusive ways to reuse this valuable natural resource.
The wood waste that we collect from all over Glasgow is gathered and sorted at our South Street workshop, we then reuse it to make quality furniture and design bespoke pieces for home, businesses and social sector organisations, anything from tables in bars to eco-gardens in schools.
Through these activities, and at the heart of what we do, we provide volunteer and training opportunities to local people, as a practical way of tackling unemployment and social exclusion.
Willingness to undertake appropriate training if needed
Essential that candidates have some experience or aptitude for office work
Experience of a busy working or volunteering environment
Some retail or sales experience is desirable
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