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Member Services Manager, CoramBAAF
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Member Services Manager
Job Title
Member Services Manager
Contract
Permanent
Hours
21 hours per week
Salary
£30,600 per annum (£51,000 FTE)
Location
Coram Campus, London – hybrid of office and home working
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 CoramBAAF
CoramBAAF is the UK’s leading membership organisation for professionals working across adoption, fostering and kinship care. We provide information, best practice guidance, advice, training and resources to support our members and influence policy to improve outcomes for children and young people.
Our corporate members in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland represent 94% of all local authorities as well as regional adoption agencies, health and social care trusts, independent fostering providers and voluntary adoption agencies, and cover 88% of all children and family social workers.
Our 600+ individual and associate members - comprising lawyers, health professionals, educational institutions, therapeutic and family support services, and more - reflect the multidisciplinary nature of our work.
Together, our members make up the largest network of organisations and individuals involved with children in their journey through the care system.
About The Role
CoramBAAF’s membership is central to the organisation’s aims and activities. The Member Services Team provides a comprehensive service to corporate, associate and individual members and customers in all four nations of the UK. The team manages and tracks member renewals, enrols new members, implements recruitment and retention strategies, co-ordinates service delivery to members and handles a wide range of membership enquiries.
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The team is also responsible for the licensing of CoramBAAF’s health and social work report forms, essential to practice in adoption, fostering, kinship care and other substitute care UK-wide. Activities to support the licence scheme include managing and tracking licence renewals, coordinating the release of new and updated forms, enrolling new licence holders and handling a wide range of queries.
The Member Services Manager will provide leadership and line management across both membership and the forms licence scheme. The postholder will maximise income from CoramBAAF membership and ensure its continued reach and relevance. They will also maximise income from the forms licence scheme and actively promote its importance as a key member benefit. Importantly they will strengthen engagement with members to ensure retention whilst also increasing reach and awareness nationally to recruit new members.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and oversee the implementation of a member engagement strategy to increase direct contact with staff/frontline workers in members agencies.
- Have regular contact with member agencies (in person and online) to promote the benefit of membership and ensure that members are maximising their membership.
- Gather data and maintain accurate records of current member agency engagement in order to identify opportunities for growth as well as areas of concern.
- Take the lead, and in consultation with colleagues, agree the membership benefits and fees payable across the different categories of membership UK wide.
- Take the lead, with colleagues, to devise new membership categories and benefits as appropriate.
- Monitor take up of membership and engagement with CoramBAAF and devise strategies and communications accordingly.
- Take the lead, and in consultation with colleagues, maintain and develop the forms licence scheme.
- Maximise income from the scheme by encouraging take up of more forms and attracting more users/customers.
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We are seeking an enthusiastic, hard-working and proactive professional to lead our small but dedicated Member Services team. The ideal candidate will be a motivated individual with strong membership, organisational and communications skills and experience and a desire to provide high quality services to members and customers.
To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.
Closing Date
30th August 2026 at 23:59
Interview Date
Week commencing 14th September 2026. Please note that interviews will be held in-person at the Coram Campus in London and will include a short test.
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.
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