Programme Manager, Engineering X

We're looking for a Programme Manager to help deliver Engineering Safer Futures (ESF), a new £3million programme under Engineering X, one of the Academy's flagship products. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of international development, engineering, research, policy and safety.

You'll play a key role in delivering the next Global Engineering Capability Review (GECR), a landmark international report that takes a systems approach to explore how engineering skills, institutions, policies and investment translate into safer, higher-quality engineering outcomes. Working with partners, researchers and technical experts across multiple countries, you'll coordinate research activities, organise international workshops and roundtables, oversee grant-making, support communications and stakeholder engagement, and help build communities of practice that turn evidence into action.

The role offers significant variety, from coordinating input from international research teams to convening senior stakeholders from across the system, to shaping new activities from emerging project findings. Success will depend on your ability to deliver high-quality work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, build trusted relationships across sectors and cultures, and work collaboratively to deliver the GECR and help establish it as a leading global reference point for engineering capability and safety.

Engineering X is a growing collaboration, founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF), that brings together some of the world’s leading problem-solvers to address the greatest safety and sustainability challenges of our time.

Please note this is a fixed term role ending at end September 2029.

Application closing date: 16/10/2026

Interview date: w/c 23/11/2026

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.