Administration Manager

Job Title: Administration Manager

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours (Monday to Friday)

Salary: £27,520 to £31,575 per annum 

Location: Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ (Hybrid Working)

Coram Voice, part of the Coram Group of charities, is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Administration Manager to support our work with children and young people in and leaving care. This is an exciting opportunity for a well-organised, self-motivated professional to manage a small team of administrators who provide national support to our services as well as providing executive support to our Managing Director and Board of Trustees

The role will suit an experienced Administration Manager who is a great communicator, good at problem solving who is systematic and comfortable with people at all levels of seniority including children and young people.

The post will have responsibility for providing support to the Managing Director of Coram Voice, and ensuring the smooth running of our Head office.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the coordination and supervision of tasks of the Administration team
• Provide day to day office management
• Act as Data Controller for Coram Voice ensuring our record storage is compliant with our retention schedule.
• Assisting with special projects as required, including organising events, assisting with income generation, and collating information
• Administer petty cash as required, ensuring accurate records are maintained
• Providing support to the Managing Director including responding to phone calls and dealing with queries, diary management
• Provide support to our Board of Trustees

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on the role and what we are looking for in a candidate.

Benefits of working with us

We wish to reward and recognise the valuable contributions our staff make to the organisation and offer an attractive benefits package to do so. You can read more about our benefits package on our careers site. These include:

• A highly competitive salary
• A matched pension scheme up to 5% of salary
• Generous leave entitlement, including up to 28 days’ annual leave, as well as an additional 3 days of paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• A suite of family-friendly policies
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Wednesday 29th January 2025 at 12pm 

Interview date: 5th February 2025 at our London office

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 global majority 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.

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.

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.