Programme Manager

Youth Endowment Fund; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Youth Endowment Fund is seeking a Programme Manager for an 18-month fixed-term, full-time role based in Central London with hybrid working. The role focuses on funding decisions, rigorous evaluation, and ensuring high-quality delivery of programmes aimed at preventing youth violence.

You will collaborate with grantees, external evaluators, and internal teams to monitor performance, mitigate risks, and ensure robust, evaluable outcomes across multiple projects within the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Deciding which projects we should fund and evaluate, and ensuring funding and evaluations are delivered to high standards.
• Work closely with grantees, external evaluators and our own evaluation team to ensure activities are evaluable to high standards.
• Build strong relationships with grantees and provide ongoing management and support through the life of their funding, including project visits.

Job description

Contract: 18-month fixed term (Full-Time)

Location: Central London, Hybrid*

About the Youth Endowment Fund

We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.

Key responsibilities

Deciding which projects, we should fund and evaluate is key, as is making sure we deliver our funding and evaluations to the highest standards. Our Programme Managers are responsible for identifying, assessing, funding and supporting programmes designed to prevent youth violence.

To achieve this, you will:

• Make sure we choose the best organisations to work with by assessing funding applications, critically appraising delivery plans and budgets and getting to know potential grantees. These assessments will help you form recommendations to our senior leadership team about which opportunities to pursue.
• Work closely with grantees, external evaluators and our own evaluation team to ensure that the activity we are funding will be evaluable to the highest standards. This requires you to support and advise grantees on how to work in the context of an evaluation – usually, a randomised controlled trial (you don’t have to have experience working on a randomised controlled trial in the past, but it helps!).
• Build strong relationships with our grantees and provide them with ongoing management and support through the life of their funding, including project visits. You will also be responsible for monitoring the performance of grantees and ensuring targets are met and any project risks are effectively mitigated.

If you have specific expertise in any of our sectors , we want to hear about it in your cover letter.

Applicants must answer the following questions as part of your application to be considered.please ensure that your cover letter can answer, within a maximum of 1200 words, the following questions:

Application Questions

• Tell us about your experience and understanding of the challenges organisations face in delivering projects and any experience you’ve had of this in the context of evaluations? (max 400 words)
• The Programme Manager role involves overseeing several projects at once and juggling many different tasks simultaneously. Tell us about when you’vehad several competing priorities and how you managed those? (max 400 words)
• Tell us about your experience of managing multiple partners and resolving conflicting positions? (max 400 words)

9am, Friday 6 th November 2026