Programme administrator

Programme Administrator
Home-Based (flexible work location with occasional travel for meetings)

About Us

Locality is the national membership network for community organisations. Our goal is simple: to help local community organisations be the best that they can be and to create a supportive environment for their work.

We are now looking for a Programme Administrator to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week. We will consider part-time hours for the right candidate.

The Benefits

- Salary of £27,898, with incremental increases to £32,096 (excluding London Weighting of £4,500, depending on location)
- 25 days’ holiday (increasing by one day for each year of service, up to 30 days)
- Three grace days between Christmas and New Year
- Enhanced pension contribution with an employer contribution of up to 7%
- Option to purchase annual leave via salary sacrifice (up to five days)
- Volunteering days (up to five days)
- TOIL policy
- Employee Assistance Programme
- In-house Mental Health First Aiders
- Health Cash Plan scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave of 10 weeks’ full pay

This is an exciting opportunity for an organised administrator with experience supporting grant processes and co-ordinating meetings to join our purpose-driven organisation.

You’ll have the chance to support a major national programme designed to strengthen communities across England, playing an important part in work that helps local organisations thrive.

What’s more, this home-based role offers the flexibility to do meaningful work from a location that suits you, alongside a well-rounded benefits package designed to support your life in and out of work.

So, if you’re ready to bring your administrative skills to a role with real community impact, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

As a Programme Administrator, you will provide essential administrative support to a major national programme, helping to ensure the smooth delivery of grants, partnerships, events and programme activities that strengthen communities across England.

You will play a key role in managing grant administration processes, maintaining accurate records within Salesforce and supporting financial reporting and compliance requirements.

Working closely with the Programme Manager and delivery partners, you will help track applications, monitor reporting deadlines, maintain auditable documentation and support effective programme governance.

Additionally, you will:

- Prepare grant payment reports and liaise with the Finance team
- Organise meetings, prepare agendas, distribute papers and take minutes
- Manage shared filing systems, document control and record accessibility
- Support the planning and delivery of the programme’s national Gathering event
- Co-ordinate delegate communications, venue logistics and speaker arrangements
- Support onboarding for delivery partner staff and Relationship Managers

About You

To be considered as a Programme Administrator, you will need:

- Experience delivering administrative support
- Experience supporting the organisation of regular meetings, associated papers and action tracking
- Experience supporting grant administration processes
- Experience managing email inboxes and inbound enquiries
- Experience in a customer or client-facing role
- Experience supporting the administration of events
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Salesforce database management (or equivalent)
- Some understanding of local community organisations

The closing date for this role is 29th June 2026.

Initial online interviews will be held on 10th July 2026 and final interviews on 15th July 2026.

Digital Open Day

We are currently building a new team to deliver the programme, and we would like to invite candidates to our Digital Open Day to provide clarity on the work of the programme and the specific responsibilities of the role.

We strongly encourage you to attend this session if you can before submitting your application. It’s a great opportunity to meet the team, ask questions, and ensure the role is the right fit for you. Further details are available via the apply button.

Other organisations may call this role Project Administrator, Programme Support Officer, Project Support Officer, Programme Co-ordinator, Project Co-ordinator, Grants Administrator, Programme Support Administrator, or Programme Officer.

Webrecruit and Locality are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re looking for a rewarding role as a Programme Administrator, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency