diff --git a/firedrake/adjoint/ensemble_reduced_functional.py b/firedrake/adjoint/ensemble_reduced_functional.py
index a2f9ea7915..d0272d8e09 100644
--- a/firedrake/adjoint/ensemble_reduced_functional.py
+++ b/firedrake/adjoint/ensemble_reduced_functional.py
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ class EnsembleReducedFunctional(ReducedFunctional):
     operation is employed to sum the functionals and their gradients over an ensemble
     communicator.
 
-    If gather_functional is present, then all the values of J are communicated to all ensemble ranks, and passed in a list to gather_functional, which is a reduced functional that expects a list of that size of the relevant types.
+    If gather_functional is present, then all the values of J are communicated to all ensemble
+    ranks, and passed in a list to gather_functional, which is a reduced functional that expects
+    a list of that size of the relevant types.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
@@ -45,7 +47,33 @@ class EnsembleReducedFunctional(ReducedFunctional):
         ``Ensemble.ensemble comm``.
     gather_functional : An instance of the :class:`pyadjoint.ReducedFunctional`.
         that takes in all of the Js.
-
+    derivative_components : list of int
+        The indices of the controls that the derivative should be computed with respect to.
+        If present, it overwrites ``derivative_cb_pre`` and ``derivative_cb_post``.
+    scale : float
+        A scaling factor applied to the functional and its gradient(with respect to the control).
+    tape : pyadjoint.Tape
+        A tape object that the reduced functional will use to evaluate the functional and
+        its gradients (or derivatives).
+    eval_cb_pre : :func:
+        Callback function before evaluating the functional. Input is a list of Controls.
+    eval_cb_pos : :func:
+        Callback function after evaluating the functional. Inputs are the functional value
+        and a list of Controls.
+    derivative_cb_pre : :func:
+        Callback function before evaluating gradients (or derivatives). Input is a list of
+        gradients (or derivatives). Should return a list of Controls (usually the same list as
+        the input) to be passed to :func:`pyadjoint.compute_gradient`.
+    derivative_cb_post : :func:
+        Callback function after evaluating derivatives. Inputs are the functional, a list of
+        gradients (or derivatives), and controls. All of them are the checkpointed versions.
+        Should return a list of gradients (or derivatives) (usually the same list as the input)
+        to be returned from ``self.derivative``.
+    hessian_cb_pre : :func:
+        Callback function before evaluating the Hessian. Input is a list of Controls.
+    hessian_cb_post : :func:
+        Callback function after evaluating the Hessian. Inputs are the functional, a list of
+        Hessian, and controls.
 
     See Also
     --------
@@ -59,8 +87,19 @@ class EnsembleReducedFunctional(ReducedFunctional):
     <https://www.firedrakeproject.org/parallelism.html#id8>`_.
     """
     def __init__(self, J, control, ensemble, scatter_control=True,
-                 gather_functional=None):
-        super(EnsembleReducedFunctional, self).__init__(J, control)
+                 gather_functional=None, derivative_components=None,
+                 scale=1.0, tape=None, eval_cb_pre=lambda *args: None,
+                 eval_cb_post=lambda *args: None,
+                 derivative_cb_pre=lambda controls: controls,
+                 derivative_cb_post=lambda checkpoint, derivative_components, controls: derivative_components,
+                 hessian_cb_pre=lambda *args: None, hessian_cb_post=lambda *args: None):
+        super(EnsembleReducedFunctional, self).__init__(
+            J, control, derivative_components=derivative_components,
+            scale=scale, tape=tape, eval_cb_pre=eval_cb_pre,
+            eval_cb_post=eval_cb_post, derivative_cb_pre=derivative_cb_pre,
+            derivative_cb_post=derivative_cb_post,
+            hessian_cb_pre=hessian_cb_pre, hessian_cb_post=hessian_cb_post)
+
         self.ensemble = ensemble
         self.scatter_control = scatter_control
         self.gather_functional = gather_functional