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Our current vacancies are available below. To apply for a vacancy please fill out and send us the application form which can be downloaded from the right of this page.

Trusts Research Assistant

Commercial Team (Trusts and Major Donor Fundraising)

Compensation: Travel and lunch expenses (on receipt basis only)

Commitment required: 1 or 2 days per week for at least three months (hours negotiable)

Based: Coram Campus, Bloomsbury WC1N

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity, providing care and support where needed and creating better chances for children, young people and their families.  We develop resilience in children and young people, enabling them to take responsibility for their own lives and fulfill their full potential. Last year alone we helped over 16,000 children and families.

We are currently seeking a volunteer to support the trusts and major donors team to carry out important research on some of our current and prospective targets. It would be an ideal opportunity for someone who is keen to obtain a broad understanding of fundraising and/or the charity sector.

The ideal volunteer will be highly organised and efficient, possess excellent communication skills, be proactive and computer literate, with a ‘can do’ attitude. Previous experience of fundraising or the charity sector is not essential, but a demonstrated interest would be an advantage.

As part of the role, you will have the opportunity to learn how to:

• Undertake research into prospective trust and major donor supporters and record this in a way that is functional for the trust and major donor team.
• Manage donor relations through the Raiser’s Edge database and best practice behind database management.
• Gain highly sought after experience of the Raiser’s Edge database
• Undertake a variety of other tasks in support of the trusts and major donor team

Click here to download an application pack for this role.

Completed application forms should be sent to peta@coram.org.uk or to Peta Rush, Coram Community Campus, 49 Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2QA. Both email and postal applications should be clearly marked with the reference: Trusts Research Assistant.

Please note that due to limited capacity, we will only be able to contact successful applicants chosen for interview.

Closing date: 19th March 2012

Interviews: week commencing 26th March 2012. Please note that applications will be considered on a rolling basis and Coram reserves the right to interview prior to the closing date for this post.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced CRB disclosure. Registered Charity No. 312278.

Closing Date: 19th March 2012

Adoption Senior Practitioners

Location: Shepshed, Leicester, LE12 9QY

£27,918 – £35,000 per annum

1 x full-time, 35 hours per week, permanent

1 x part-time, 21 hours, fixed-term 9 months (maternity cover)

Coram’s Adoption and Permanent Families Service is one of the leading adoption agencies in the UK.  We have adoption teams in London, East Midlands and East Anglia and run the country’s only concurrent planning project. We are passionate about each child’s right to permanence and our active research programme influences practice and policy. We are known for the quality of our placements, the post adoption support we provide and are proud to have an exceptionally low disruption rate. We have a partnership with Harrow to deliver their domestic adoption service, and are developing partnerships with other local authorities. Our team in the East Midlands offers support groups for adopted children and young people which are highly regarded and well used. 

We are looking for two Senior Practitioners in East Midlands to join Coram and contribute to our continued growth and development. We are seeking social workers with experience of child care social work, and particularly of adoption and assessing adoptive applicants. Coram has a professional work ethos which values and respects social workers who remain in the field and develop their expertise. We provide good quality reflective supervision and opportunities to develop your practice skills.  

Please download an a job description and application form for this role. Alternatively you may email jobs@coram.org.uk

Interview date: 7 March 2012

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced CRB disclosure. Registered Charity No. 312278.

Closing Date: 24th February 2012

Solicitor and Outreach Worker

Coram Children’s Legal Centre

Salary: £32,000 - £34,000 per annum, inclusive of London allowance

Hours: 40 hours per week with 1 hour paid lunch break

Length of contract: 2 years (with possibility of extension if further funding is secured)

Based: Coram Campus, Bloomsbury WC1N

Coram Children's Legal Centre is a national charity committed to promoting children's rights in the UK and worldwide. Coram Children’s Legal Centre aims to: 

• Promote and uphold children's rights within the context of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights in the UK and internationally.
• Monitor and develop law, policy and practice concerning children and young people, to inform and influence policy makers and the general public.
• Improve access to justice through legal advice, information and representation for children, young people and adults working on their behalf.

The Solicitor and Outreach Worker’s role will be as part of the Centre’s Migrant Children's Project. The Migrant Children’s Project aims to ensure that refugee, asylum seeking and migrant children are able to obtain the services and assistance to which they are legally entitled. We provide detailed advice, information and training on their rights and entitlements, and on the impact of immigration law on services to children. We also campaign to ensure that laws and policies defend their rights and extend the protections available to them.

This role will involve extensive outreach work and drop-in legal advice sessions, through which advice on immigration, family and welfare issues will be provided to hard-to-reach migrant children and families. Case work will also be carried out under a Legal Services Commission Family contract, where appropriate.

More information about the project and the work of the Centre as a whole is available on our website, www.childrenslegalcentre.com. If you have any questions or would like to find out more about the role, please contact Kamena Dorling at kadorl@essex.ac.uk

 Click here to download an  application pack.

Completed application forms should be sent to mcp@essex.ac.uk or to Coram Children’s Legal Centre, 49 Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2QA. Both email and postal applications should be clearly marked with the reference: Solicitor and Outreach Worker.

Please note that due to limited capacity, we will only be able to contact successful applicants chosen for interview.

Closing date: 23rd February 2012

Interviews: 2nd March 2012

Coram Children’s Legal Centre is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and will require the successful applicant to undertake an enhanced CRB disclosure. Registered Charity No. 312278.

Closing Date: 23rd February 2012

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