Participation Intern

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Job Title: Participation Intern

Contract: Fixed-Term – finishing on 30th September 2025

Hours: 21 hours per week

Salary: £14,400 per annum (FTE £24,000)

Location: Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1AZ

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 the role

We are offering a paid internship for a young person aged 18-25 with personal experience of housing issues or homelessness who is keen to make a difference to the lives of other young people.

The role will work on our Voices in Action programmes with 16-25 year olds with experience of homelessness and school exclusion. Young people on these programmes design workshops and digital content to empower their peers with knowledge of their rights and campaign for change.

We are looking for someone with experience of working directly with other young people and some office experience to support the coordination and administration of our Voices in Action ambassador programmes. The successful candidate will gain experience across a range of areas including project administration and coordination, youth engagement and participation.

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

Closing Date: Tuesday 19th November 2024 at 23:59pm

Interview Date: Friday 29th 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 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.