Programme Manager

The role

• The Programme Manager plays a key role within the Services Delivery team leading the delivery of Scottish Government and other loan and grant schemes, ensuring excellent customer service, efficient processes, and achievement of agreed targets within budget.
• Overseeing the successful delivery of existing schemes and supporting the development, implementation, and close down of new funding programmes.
• Managing programme performance through effective planning, governance, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and financial oversight to achieve successful outcomes.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with government, funders, and delivery partners, acting as a trusted lead for scheme delivery and reporting.
• Driving continuous improvement of systems, processes, and customer journeys to ensure services remain efficient, compliant, and customer focused.

The team

The Services Delivery team is responsible for administering and delivering loan and grant programmes, ensuring customers receive a high-quality service while contractual commitments are met. The team works closely with colleagues across programme management, finance, learning and development, and external stakeholders including the Scottish Government.

We are a collaborative and supportive team that values accuracy, continuous improvement and excellent customer service. Team members work together to solve problems, share knowledge and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness. We encourage learning, innovation and personal development, creating an environment where colleagues can make a real impact while developing their skills and experience.

Working in this team offers the opportunity to contribute to programmes that help people and communities access funding and support, while playing a part in advancing Energy Saving Trust’s mission to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future.

What you will do

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of loan and grant schemes, making sure services run smoothly and meet agreed KPIs, SLAs, budgets and customer standards.
• Forecast, check and manage finance-related activity for schemes, including daily payment run checks and accurate reporting against financial objectives.
• Identify operational risks, resolve issues and take corrective action to protect service delivery, sharing learning across the department.
• Review customer journeys, systems and processes to improve efficiency, service quality and consistency across schemes.
• Recruit, manage, motivate and develop team members so they are equipped to deliver effective, efficient and customer-focused services.

What you will bring

• Experience of managing operational delivery in a customer-facing service, including meeting KPIs, SLAs and agreed service standards.
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills, with experience of budget management, payment checks, reporting and accurate reconciliation.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to produce clear, accurate and timely management information for funders and stakeholders.
• A practical, improvement-focused approach to reviewing systems, processes and customer journeys to increase efficiency and service quality.
• Strong communication skills, with experience responding to enquiries, information requests and complaints professionally and on time.
• People management experience, with the ability to recruit, motivate, support and develop team members in a busy operational environment.
• The ability to prioritise, solve problems and deliver results to tight deadlines with minimal supervision.

For more information, please see the job description on our website.

Please submit an anonymised CV and cover letter, removing your name, address, email address, and any other identifying details. Please note, applications submitted without a cover letter may be rejected.

As part of our recruitment process, we conduct background checks on all candidates who receive a conditional offer of employment. The nature of the scheme that we are contracted to work on with Scottish Government means that we are required to comply with UK Government standards when carrying out pre‑employment checks for new starters. This check is known as the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).

BPSS checks include:

• Verification of identity
• Verification of right to work in the UK
• Verification of your previous 3 years of employment history, including periods spent overseas
• A basic criminal record check (DBS), and where relevant, criminal record information from countries where you have lived for significant periods

Information obtained will only be used for the purposes of assessing your suitability for the role. Please note that if successful, any offer of employment made will be conditional pending the successful completion of the BPSS checks. To meet BPSS requirements, candidates must hold valid UK Right to Work documentation. If you have lived or worked overseas, these periods can be verified as long as the relevant evidence can be provided.

More information on the checks can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/baseline-personnel-security-standard-on-amiqus-processing-data-privacy-notice/

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full-time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

We’ll support you with:

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)
• True flexibility in how and where you work (subject to role requirements)
• Strong pension & life assurance
• Enhanced family leave
• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)
• Professional development support
• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page

Reasonable adjustments: We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with [email protected] or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role. Find out more here.

You can find out more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK