Online Shops Volunteer (5 roles – Photographer/Packer/Researcher/Tester /Lister)

Increasingly LOROS is selling donated and new goods online maximising income for the charity by tapping into national, niche and specialist markets.

This role is flexibly designed. The 5 roles can be arranged in any combination dependent upon the skills of the volunteer and the needs of the service at any given time.

Key Volunteer Duties for Photographer include:

– Photographing items for online sale
– Preparing items for photographing (cleaning, organising)

Key Volunteer Duties for Packer include:

– Carefully packing and labelling items for posting
– Organising packing station

Key volunteer duties for Researcher include:

– Researching items online to provide more information and estimated prices based on previously sold items.
– Finding user manuals
– Finding makers and brands

Key duties for Tester include:

– Testing goods to ensure they work as required
– PAT testing electrical goods (LOROS provide training)
– Testing goods comply with safety requirements
– Ensuring goods are fit for purpose, feeding back to online sales manager

Key Duties for Lister include:

– Drafting listing on eBay with all required information to be reviewed by Online sales manager.

Personal Qualities to fulfil role:

– Friendly
– Flexible
– Reliable
– Work as part of a team and alone
– Good attention to detail to ensure accuracy

Personal Qualities to fulfil role:
– Friendly
– Flexible
– Reliable
– Work as part of a team and alone
– Good attention to detail to ensure accuracy