Programme Administrator

Ricardo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Programme Administrator in a hybrid role based in London, Glasgow, or Manchester. The successful candidate will support environmental and energy programmes aimed at driving improvement for a low carbon economy. Key competencies include project coordination, strong organizational skills, and effective communication. The company values diversity and offers flexible working arrangements along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

8 flexible bank holidays

Competitive pension scheme

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in project or programme coordination, ideally including work with central government.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Experience supporting successful delivery to time and budget.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of programmes.
• Keep projects running smoothly and meet timelines and budgets.
• Maintain project documentation and ensure processes are followed.

Skills

Project or programme coordination

Organisational skills

Clear communication

Delivery to time and budget

Quick learning

Proactivity

Education

Recognised project management qualification

Job description

Overview

Role: Programme Administrator

Location: London, Glasgow, Harwell, Manchester - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-3175

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking a Programme Administrator to support the successful delivery of environmental and energy programmes. Ricardo delivers a wide range of government-funded initiatives that help drive environmental improvement and support the transition to a low carbon economy. These include grants, innovation programmes, business support services and environmental evidence projects. Our expertise in programme design, project management and technical delivery has established us as a trusted delivery partner across the sector. This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in delivering real-world impact by supporting programmes that accelerate the UK’s progress towards net zero.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of environmental and energy-related programmes.
• Keep projects running smoothly by supporting day-to-day coordination and ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
• Maintain project documentation and ensure internal processes, including quality assurance requirements, are followed.
• Help set up and monitor work delivered by subcontractors.
• Support regular communication with clients, including preparing progress updates and contributing to key deliverables.
• Work closely with colleagues across the team to make sure activity is well coordinated and that we deliver what’s needed.
• Take on feedback from clients and help improve how we deliver programmes and manage internal processes.

Key Competencies and Experience

• Experience in project or programme coordination, ideally including work with central government.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and keep work on track.
• Clear communicator, confident working with colleagues and clients at all levels.
• Experience supporting successful delivery to time and budget, with examples of how challenges were managed.
• Comfortable working in a busy consultancy environment across several projects at once.
• Quick to learn and able to suggest practical improvements to ways of working.
• Positive, proactive approach, with a willingness to support others where needed.

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 or equivalent).
• Experience working on low carbon, decarbonisation or wider environmental programmes.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team [e-mail] you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.