Administrator

Job Title: Administrator

Contract: Fixed Term until 28th February 2025

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people. We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London, helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About Coram Adoption

Coram Adoption, a member of the Coram Group of charities, has over 40 years’ experience in finding permanent loving families for children needing adoption. As a voluntary adoption agency, we work mostly in London and Home Counties and in partnership with ten local authorities to deliver the Coram Ambitious for Adoption regional adoption agency.

We are committed to making adoption happen for children where this is the plan and are very proud to be working with our adoptive families and our adopted young people in shaping the future of the service. We maintain the very best of local authority adoption practice and continue to be rated an outstanding Adoption Agency by Ofsted. Coram Adoption is a member of CVAA, the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies.

At Coram Adoption, everyone is passionate about what we do because we understand that our work is life changing for the children and families we support.

Main duties & Responsibilities

•  To support the Duty Manager by co-ordinating the adults and children’s profiles as part of the Family  Finding process for the Regional Adoption Agency.
•  To support the Duty Manager by coordinating and organizing the Regional Adoption Agency’s representation at the Adoption Exchange Days
•  To maintain appropriate electronic (Excel and CHARMS) files.
•  To work as part of the administration team, assisting colleagues when workloads are high and working to tight deadlines.
•  To demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and strive to achieve anti-discriminatory, child centred practice in all aspects of the work undertaken.
•  To be responsible for own health and safety and the health and safety of others and to comply with Coram Group Health and Safety policy and procedures.
•  To treat everyone with respect, dignity and fairness and to acknowledge and celebrate diversity.
•  To maintain confidentiality of information and to comply with all requirements related to the Data Protection Act and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
• To be the first point of contact for telephone and email enquiries.
•  To respond appropriately to enquiries, including taking messages and ensuring they are acted on.
•  To manage the logistics for the Adoption Information Meetings, including registrations, Zoom invitations, and post-event surveys and follow-up.

If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact Maggie Davies on 07943145214.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Registered Charity No. 312278.