Legal and Policy Intern

Job Title – Legal and Policy Intern

Contract – 6 months fixed term

Hours - 7 hours per week

Salary - £13.15 per hour / £4,786.60 per annum (£23,933 FTE).

Location – Coram Campus, London (with the possibility of working remotely)

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 Children’s Legal Centre

Part of the Coram group, Coram Children's Legal Centre is the UK's leading children's legal charity. We are committed to promoting children's rights in the UK and worldwide. We provide free legal information, advice and representation to children, young people, their families, carers and professionals, as well as training and consultancy on child law and children’s rights.

Coram Children’s Legal Centre works with migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and young people to ensure that their rights are upheld. At an individual level, we provide one-to-one legal advice through an advice line, outreach advice programme and workshops, as well as legal representation in immigration, asylum and nationality law, and community care law. We also offer a range of free resources and online information. To develop practice, we provide guidance and training to practitioners working with young refugees and migrants. We undertake policy advocacy to protect and promote the rights of migrant children in UK law and policy.

About the role

Coram Children’s Legal Centre hope that the role will create an opportunity to develop key skills for a range of future careers, whilst also holding an important role in the team.

The main purposes of the role are:

• To work with the Coram Children’s Legal Centre Senior Project Officer to support their legal administrative work.
• To assist in the drafting of legally accurate public legal information including for Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s website;
• To support Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s policy influencing work under the direction of the Senior Project Officer.

The role is open to anyone who has a passion and interest in learning and developing within a Children’s Rights charity. Previous experience is not necessary; if you feel you would be a good fit for the role, we would love to hear from you.

Applicants with lived experience of the UK immigration, asylum, or care systems are strongly encouraged to apply. Please note that all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

We know that you may have feelings of a lack of confidence when applying for roles. We want you to apply for the role if you are excited and passionate about the role and the contribution you could make. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements in the person specification, we strongly encourage you to apply.

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

Closing date: 29th October 2024 23:59

Interview date: Week commencing 4th November 2024

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.

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.

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