Decision Making • Responsible for leading/making critical decisions on the key components of the Campus and Capital Plan, both immediate needs and longer-term plans • Responsible for leading and advising Campus Division on achieving the highest standards of Campus Planning within the agreed levels of delegated authority •Responsible for advising on the allocation of significant (multi £m) future capital budgets and manage within existing significant capital and revenue budgets at all times. • Responsible for leading and advising on the deliverability and viability of all emergent projects/other workflows required in the forward capital plan, of significant level, workload and value (multi £m) • Responsible for leading and supporting the development of revised, University-wide project initiation protocols and lead by example in implementing them. • Responsible for ensuring high quality estates data collection, management, analysis and reporting Problem Solving • To identify and manage all risks and issues in the area of Campus Planning, including taking effective, timely action to prevent adverse effects. Risks and issues will be complex in nature, as they will often be strategic, multi-partner and ‘political’ risks and issues that require extensive exploration, quantifying and qualifying followed by the need for negotiating and diplomacy skills at the highest level within the organisation • Leading and managing complex, multi-partner risk and issue workshops which are likely to trigger conflict at a senior level with significant organisation impact. This will require extensive problem- solving skills, particularly in managing senior stakeholders, organisation reputation, timescale, cost and quality risk management and conflict resolution to ensure positive strategic, financial, educational, economic, planning and developmental outcomes. • Working proactively to enhance communications, resolutions and mitigations at the most senior levels and carefully negotiating a myriad of views, honing them into a solution that can be signed off by all. This will require a tactful, highly skilled approach that advocates and delivers win-win proposals, balances organisational, financial and strategic risks and manages considerable internal and external partner interfaces Continuous Improvement • Providing topic-related expertise and Campus leadership/lateral leadership within Campus Development in accordance with a cycle of continuous improvement. • Leading on, advocating for and embracing a philosophy of innovation which seeks to transform practice, communicate clear, achievable vision and goals, deliver excellence and positively impact on programme, time and costs. • Constantly striving to improve the processes by which Campus planning is undertaken and approved in accordance with Campus objectives. • Leading on, advocating for and embracing a philosophy of excellence, which seeks to constantly excel beyond expectations.
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