Managing Director of Family Services and Development

Job Title - Managing Director of Family Services and Development

Contract - Permanent

Hours - 35 hours per week

Salary - Circa £75,000 per annum

Location - Coram Campus, Bloomsbury, with occasional UK travel and hybrid working as agreed

About Coram

Coram is the first and longest continuing children's charity, originally The Foundling Hospital, helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, a dynamic group of organisations, Coram now helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year through direct services, curriculum tools, and digital advice.

Coram Family Lives was formed over fifty years ago by volunteers to ensure all parents had somewhere to turn before they reach crisis point and provides targeted early intervention support to those who are struggling. Following integration into the Coram Group, the organisation is entering an important phase of development, sustainability and impact, distinctive expertise, voice and relationships.

About the role

Working directly with the Chief Executive as a member of the Senior Management Team of Coram, the Managing Director of Family Services and Development will lead the delivery, oversight and development of both national and local programmes of family support. This includes leading Coram Family Lives, which consists of 100 staff and more than 130 active volunteers, as well as leading other projects as required.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing the strategy to ensure sustainable operation and development of Coram Family Lives including responsibility for income generation working alongside the Coram Family Lives Head of Business Development and the Coram MD of Fundraising.

You will lead on service innovation and policy for family focusing programmes, including initiating and developing relationships with key partners. You will develop strategies and plans to reach out to staff and volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds, including working with colleagues to maintain the Investors in Volunteers Award.

This senior role is an opportunity for a for an established leader with advanced knowledge of the children and family sector across the UK. The successful candidate will have a strong business focus, with experience of identifying, responding to and delivering new business opportunities, and managing finances to seven figures. The successful candidate will also have experience of managing multiple and distributed teams spread across the UK.

You will be able to work individually, in a team and across the organisation and be skilled at leading and motivating managers, support staff and volunteers. Experience of and commitment to improving lives of children and families is essential.

Please note that this is a full-time role, office based in central London. Hybrid working is supported but this post is not offered for job share or for majority home working. It requires the ability to travel in the UK on business and for flexibility in attending occasional breakfast or evening events.

To apply for this role, please click on the redriect to recruiter button below to complete an application form. Please note CVs alone will not be accepted.

Closing date: Monday, 26th October 2026, 23.59pm

Interview date (at Coram Campus, Bloomsbury): Friday 6th and/or Tuesday 10th November 2026

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 and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

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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