Job Title –  Finance and Billing Assistant

Contract –  Permanent

Hours -  Full time 35 Hours per week

(However, we will consider part time 28 hours per week, flexible with days and hours to be agreed)

Salary -  £21,000 to £25,000 FTE dependent on experience and location

Location -  Wellington House, 4th Floor, 90-92 Butt Road, Colchester, Essex, CO3 3DA or Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ  

About Coram

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.

One of the nine members 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, and provides significant international legal systems consultancy.  The centre is located on the Coram Campus in central London with bases in Colchester and Leeds. We champion access to justice through information and advice, legal practice and representation, policy and strategic litigation.  Our Legal Practice Unit provides advice and representation primarily under legal aid contract.  Our Migrant Children’s Project promotes the rights of refugee and migrant children, young people and families through the delivery of advice, practice change through training and capacity building to professionals and systems change through research, policy and advocacy.

CCLC’s Finance and Billing Team is currently predominantly based in our Colchester office but this role could operate from our London office.  Whichever, office the successful candidate is based in there is likely to be some occasional travel between the two. 

About the role

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, multi-skilled Finance and Billing Assistant to support our busy practice based in Colchester.

The primary purpose of the role is to provide financial and administrative assistance to the Finance and Operations team, particularly focussed on increasing our Legal Aid billing capacity.  This may involve assistance with broader financial and administrative tasks in order to release the overall capacity of the whole Finance Team to increase efficiency and maximise Legal Aid billing.  From time to time, the role may also be required to provide general administrative and reception assistance to the Legal Practice Unit and Migrant Children’s Project, particularly for annual leave cover.

The role would suit an organised and efficient individual with strong IT skills who is looking to develop a career working within the charity finance or business support sector.  This would be a particularly rewarding role for someone with an appreciation of the important role legal aid advice and representation plays in securing access to justice for the most vulnerable in society.  Previous experience working in an administrative, operations or finance role would be desirable.  However, full training will be provided and ongoing support and supervision will be available and therefore it is most important that the successful candidate can demonstrate the ability to work independently and show initiative and problem solving skills. 

This is an office-based role and as such the successful candidate will benefit from being part of an experienced team.  However, whilst this is a full-time position, we will consider requests for part-time working (28 hours per week minimum) and we will endeavour to offer some flexibility with days and hours to be agreed.

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

Closing date: Monday 27th November 2023 23.59pm

Test and Interview date: Week commencing Monday 27th November 2023

Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

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.