Outreach Immigration Adviser & Senior Project Officer

Coram; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 23,000

Job description

Job Description

Job Title – Outreach Immigration Adviser & Senior Project Officer

Contract – Permanent

Hours – 21 hours per week

Salary – £19,200 - £22,800 per annum (£32,000 to £38,000 FTE & dependent on experience)

Location – Central 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.

Part of the Coram group, Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) is the UK’s specialist centre for children’s rights in education, immigration, community care and family law. The centre is located on the Coram Campus in central London with a base in Colchester. We champion access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to help children, young people and families understand their position and legal rights and support them to take steps to realise their rights. This role involves the provision of one-off asylum, immigration and nationality law advice and follow-up work to children, young people and families. This role is part of an outreach immigration legal advice team, which seeks to get high-quality immigration legal advice into communities and to those who would otherwise be unable to access it.

The role involves creating positive relationships with young people and working with a range of partners to win change to promote the rights of children and young people affected by UK immigration control. The role is responsible for project co-ordination and delivery across immigration advice projects, including advice service design, partnership-building, project planning and meetings, system creation and maintenance, record-keeping, monitoring, internal and funder reporting and other project activities. The role supports CCLC in achieving advice service consistency, meeting targets and ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations.

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

Closing date: 14th April 2025 09.00am

Interview date: week commencing 21st April 2025

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.

If applicants feel comfortable, we 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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