Programme Officer, Sustainable Development

We are looking for a Programme Officer upto March 26, to support the delivery of a multi-partner symposium focused on green skills, taking place in Kenya in February 2026. This symposium will utilise the Academy's Frontiers model.

The programme officer role is varied and fast paced, focusing primarily on high-quality grant and stakeholder management, programme and event organisation, logistics, communications and monitoring and evaluation, offering a great opportunity to develop a range of skills.

The Frontiers model connects researchers, innovators, practitioners and policy makers and encourages them to build interdisciplinary, collaborative networks to address specific global challenges. International participants attend a three-day symposium and then have the opportunity to bid for seed funding, designed to build on the networks formed at the event and prompt collaborative action.

The planned symposium will take place in Kenya and will focus on accelerating the green skills transition through skills and innovation. It is a collaboration between the Academy and the United Nations Environment Programme and two Kenyan organisations: AGSO and Jacob's Ladder. The symposium will build on, and seek to add value, to work that these organisations have already been doing in the area of green skills.

In the role, there may also be opportunities to support the wider Africa and Sustainable Development team activities. The job offers the chance to travel internationally, including to low-resource settings.

Application closing date: 16/11/2025

Interview date: w/c 24/11/2025

Interview location: London

Our location

Our light, spacious head office is based in a fantastic location in central London with views over St James's Park and close to the West End. We operate hybrid, flexible working practices with a baseline for office based working of a mandatory weekly team day plus further days each week as required for the role and the Academy.

Who are we?

Engineering matters. It shapes our everyday lives, from our ability to turn the lights on, have a hot shower and commute into work, to the mobile phones we rely on to keep connected. It also plays a vital role in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing society today, from climate change, to global health pandemics and cyber threats.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is a charity that harnesses the power of engineering to build a sustainable society and an inclusive economy that works for everyone. In collaboration with our Fellows and partners, we're growing talent and developing skills for the future, driving innovation, and building global partnerships, and influencing policy and engaging the public. Together we're working to tackle the greatest challenges of our age.

With a diverse workforce and an inclusive and supportive culture, we look to attract candidates from wide and different backgrounds who have a passion for the role engineering plays in society. Our aim is to make the Academy the best place to work for the staff we have and those we seek to attract.

Why work for us?

We're looking for people who are driven to make the world a better place. If you're passionate about what you do and want to work collaboratively with talented colleagues to make change happen now and for future generations, we want you to get in touch.

This is the perfect time to join us. We have a dynamic, visionary CEO, a strong leadership team and an ambitious and exciting strategy. The value we bring as experts in our field and change agents is highly recognised and makes the Academy a motivating place to be. Our work today builds on a long, proud history with a focused and ambitious future which we'd love you to be part of.

We are looking for talented people who want to make a difference, to join our team – is this you?

The Academy is committed to making reasonable adjustments to remove barriers that hinder applicants from applying or staff from working effectively and comfortably.