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Reporting to the Chief Executive, the brief was to find a professional capable of managing a centralised estates department (from London) responsible for the delivery of projects and maintenance across their diverse national portfolio whilst they made a substantive appointment. The structure is an ‘intelligent client’ model with regionalised teams of architects and surveyors. They were seeking to appoint a head of department who could lead the day to day delivery of a ‘best in class’ service whilst formulating an ambitious 10 year estates strategy. The successful candidate had a prior track record within education which included an earlier career as Director of Estates at St Mary’s University and the Guildford College Group.
Interim Estates Director
The University of Cambridge has a £2bn real estate development programme to support the University’s growth strategy and maintain its position as a global leader in its field. MRG were engaged by the Head of Estates Projects to undertake an exercise to facilitate the engagement of an external Project Advisor to take an independent oversight and governance role over one of the University’s crucial strategic projects. MRG were then able to quickly engage with and introduce one of their long-standing associates whom had a proven track record over 30 years in major project delivery across the public and private sectors including a senior role on the development of the property and facilities portfolio for the London 2012 Olympics.
Project Advisor
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