Job Description
Speaking for ourselves - The Living History of the Care Experienced movement
Job Title: Programme Manager
Contract: Fixed Term (Until end of August 2029)
Hours: 35 hours per week (Monday to Friday with occasional evening/ weekend work)
Salary: £46,000 per annum
Location: Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ (with national travel as required)
Speaking For Ourselves is an exciting new programme funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that will collect and share the history of the care-experienced campaigning movement from the 1970s. It was conceived within the care-experienced community, emerging from long-standing discussions about how poorly the history of the care-experienced campaigning movement has been recorded-and how easily its achievements risk being forgotten.
This important programme puts the voice of people with lived experience of care at the centre. The Speaking For Ourselves programme delivered by Coram is guided by majority care-experienced Programme Board and aims to work with the wider care experienced community. The Programme Board has an advisory and representative role, to guide the successful delivery of the programme make key decisions that shape its impact.
Speaking For Ourselves will:
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Collect, record, and digitise documents, photographs, letters, publications, and objects
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Conduct personal history interviews with people involved in campaigns and efforts for change
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Commission written pieces to fill gaps in the historical record
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Create a permanent digital archive
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Produce podcasts, a moveable display, a schools module, and a toolkit for Children in Care Councils
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Deliver three national events (one per year)
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Engage care-experienced communities through workshops, open submissions, commissions, partnerships, and outreach
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Build a lasting resource for policymakers, educators, researchers, and future campaigners
About the role
The Programme Manager will be responsible for the delivery of this ambitious programme and will require exceptional project and person management, interpersonal and relationship-building skills, creativity, organisation and flexibility. Experience of managing NLHF projects would be a benefit.
The post holder will report to the Managing Director of Coram Voice, and will be responsible for working with the Programme Board and Coram to manage delivery of the programme. The role will liaise closely with Coram's Executive Office and external partners including the London Metropolitan Archives.
For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.
Coram understands that people with lived experience of the care system may face barriers to and in employment. Recognising that such experience could be an asset to this programme (which may bring valuable skills, knowledge, insights and approaches directly relevant to the programme's success), we particularly welcome and encourage applications from care-experienced individuals. We will guarantee an interview for care experience applicants who meet the person specification.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing date: 8th July :00pm
Interview date: 15th July on the Coram Campus, London WC1
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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