Director of Estates
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Executive summary The University of Birmingham has as an Estate in excess of 300 acres, 500,000sq.m GIA, over 200 buildings and 4,500 student bed spaces centred on a wonderful leafy campus in Edgbaston with a mix of iconic red brick Edwardian buildings and modern, state of the art facilities. Birmingham is a £520m turnover, comprehensive, Russell Group University with subjects ranging from medicine to music and its estate mirrors this complexity and scale. We are currently embarked on an ambitious £500m capital programme with significant projects including a new Sports Centre, Library, University School, Conference Park, major academic buildings, and an expansion of the student residences portfolio. It is an increasing feature of our estates strategy that we work in partnership with external organisations, such as: the High Temperature Research Centre at Antsy with Rolls Royce, the city’s new Dental Hospital, the creation of a HS2 Academy and the Institute for Translational Medicine with the University Hospital Birmingham. Looking further ahead, there are hugely exiting opportunities for estates development in the city of Birmingham with a major Life Sciences campus designed to make it easier for firms to engage with clinicians and academics, bringing additional investment into the city. This vision is reflected in Birmingham’s ambitious project to create a four hectare science park specifically for the life sciences adjacent to the University and Hospital to attract cutting edge health and pharmaceutical research firms into the city, driving economic growth alongside medical and scientific innovation. The Director of Estates plays an important role in helping to shape the future of the University by leading the development and implementation of the University’s Estate Strategy and ensuring that Birmingham has a world-class estate portfolio that supports and enables the University’s world class research and education. The Director oversees the University’s Estates Development Framework which guides estates forward planning. Reporting to the Registrar and Secretary, the University’s Chief Operating Officer, and as a member of the Registrar’s Leadership Team, the role holder will provide strategic advice and guidance relating to the University’s Estates strategy to the University Executive Board (UEB). The Director of Estates also leads the University’s Estates Department and is responsible for ensuring this delivers efficient and effective services and operations. In the highly competitive and evolving HE global landscape, the key challenges facing the new Director of Estates are: n The further development and the implementation of an effective and forward looking Estates strategy which enables the University to continue to invest in support of its ambitious strategy to enhance its academic performance, while remaining sustainable. n Delivering a £multi-million and complex capital programme to time and budget. n Acting as steward for the University’s physical campus, respecting its heritage while looking to the future. n Leading and delivering innovative and integrated Estates services and operations for the University, ensuring that students, staff, visitors and the local community enjoy an exceptional experience through the built and natural environment of the University. The Director of Estates will be an exceptional leader and role model with a deep knowledge of managing a dynamic and complex estate. They will need to be an excellent negotiator experienced in dealing with external partners and contractors. They will also have the ability and desire to work beyond their core area of expertise and actively contribute to a wider range of leadership and management issues within Professional Services as well as across the University. Intellectually confident and with the personal qualities to succeed in a highly complex research intensive University, he/she will have a natural ability to command respect and build rapport, trust and collaboration with diverse groups and individuals across the University.
As with all senior roles at Birmingham, the Director of Estates is expected to be active and influential nationally as well as locally within Birmingham.
The role is rich and diverse and provides a unique opportunity for a highly motivated and inspirational professional, with appropriate vision and leadership and communication skills, to join this dynamic and forward thinking institution as it enters the next phase of its development.
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