Retail Assistant
Lend a helping hand to our Op Shops by creating a welcoming space for other animal-lovers like yourself to purchase clothes, books, bric-a-brac and more! Help customers, sort merchandise and bring in the big bucks to ensure every animal gets the second(hand) chance they deserve.
This role involves applying visual merchandising recommendations from the Retail Team Leader and Retail Coordinator, maintaining your shift in accordance with the volunteer roster, ensuring outgoing donations are ready for collection by drivers, assisting with general storekeeping duties and stock management, assisting with incoming item donations, pricing incoming stock, accurately handling cash and point-of-sale equipment and providing excellent customer service to clients and customers.
By volunteering in one of our stores, you'll be making a real difference for animals while becoming part of a friendly and supportive community of people who share your passion.
We're currently looking for volunteers for the following stores and shifts:
🐾 Gawler Op Shop
Volunteers needed for: Saturday, Friday and Wednesday shifts.
🐾 Unley Op Shop
Volunteers needed for: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday shifts.
Shift times: 9.45 am – 4:15 pm
💙 Join a Community That Makes a Difference
Team Leader
Every good team needs a manager! As a Retail Team Leader, you'll help with rostering, ordering and general management of day-to-day duties to ensure our Op Shops run as smoothly as possible.
This role involves applying visual merchandising recommendations from the Retail Coordinator, producing and maintaining volunteer rosters, assessing and sorting incoming items, pricing incoming stock, accurately handling cash and point-of-sale equipment, coordinating and submitting order schedules, ensuring donations are ready for collection by drivers, ensuring that volunteers are able to carry out their duties, assisting with general storekeeping duties and stock management and providing excellent customer service to clients and customers.
Please note, we are currently at capacity for this role and are not currently taking applications.
Sorting Centre Assistants
Help sort through all the items that people have generously donated to our Op Shops and identify which ones would be suitable for rehoming. Desirable skills: an eye for fashion and a love of helping animals in need!
This role involves sorting incoming donations and identifying goods to be sold in stores and online, coordinating the sorting and distribution of orders received, ensuring orders are delivered in a timely manner to stores, maintaining a schedule for all shops receiving and collecting goods and liaising with drivers to ensure that order schedule is met.
Please note, we are currently at capacity for this role and are not currently taking applications.
Driver
Drive around town and deliver donated items between the Sorting Centre, home collection points and our Op Shops. Required skills: a driver's licence and be fit and able-bodied… there is lifting involved; the ability to drive a patrol vehicle
This role involves servicing stores using an AWL vehicle, delivering donations from the Sorting Centre to the stores, collecting excess donations from stores and delivering them to the Sorting Centre, collecting donations (including furniture) from other locations as requested by the Retail Coordinator, assisting with maintaining a constant visual appeal in stores, assisting with stock management and general housekeeping duties at the Sorting Centre, providing excellent customer service to clients and customers, maintaining fuel levels, cleanliness and appearance of AWL vehicles, assessing incoming donations to determine quality and suitability for use by AWL, delivering pre-purchased furniture from thrift shops to customer locations, and performing any other tasks as allocated by the Retail Coordinator.
Please note, we are currently at capacity for this role and are not currently taking applications.
