Imperial - Head of Strategic Masterplanning

Job Description

Purpose of the Post The purpose of this role is to provide a strategic helicopter view of the full estate (excl White City) and to identify the medium and long-term micro plans for each building. The role works in conjunction with the White City team to ensure that best practices are shared between the campuses. The role does not have operational delivery responsibility but has the mandate to scope and define high level concepts to a point where it is then appropriate to transfer to the operational teams for detailed design and execution. Key aspects include:

Job Title:

Department/Division/Faculty: Head of Strategic Master Planning

Property Division

Key Responsibilities

Campus location: South Kensington (Hybrid)

Head of Strategic Master Planning • Building level asset plan with strategic direction alignment to capital investment • Alignment of asset plans to Arup decarbonisation plan • Macro campus strategy for South Kensington and how we set and achieve new targets for space types, namely the transformation toward more communal spaces, higher levels of teaching space and more student facing collaboration areas etc. • High level space budget and utilisation trends to inform asset plans. • Innovation opportunities and new refurbishment/construction techniques to accelerate our journey to net zero in operation by 2040. • Primary point of coordination with Architect appointed to build the master plan (SK) • Macro plans for Silwood and the Medical campuses • Capital plan coordination with the Capital Projects team. • Strategy for program/project sequencing to drive financial economies and minimise operational disruption. • Strategy for campus interconnectivity to “join the dots” of the asset plans so that communal infrastructure and connectivity flows and aligns. • Concept designs with Design Teams • End user briefing and coordination to establish future principles and ways of working. • Donation readiness. Prepared schemes that can be accelerated from the longer-term capital plan should funds become available. • Coordination of feasibility assessments where specific requirements could be accommodated in either White City of other Campuses. • Share best practices with White City Development team. • Identify maximum potential capacity for SK and associated sub- projects and viability. • Swing space. Strategy to facilitate individual projects and minimising end user disruption. • High level visual “roof top analysis” to support senior stakeholder visualisation of the campus level strategy. • Brand. Incorporation of the brand into key projects

Job Family/Level:

Professional Services - Level 6

Responsible to: Chief Property Officer

Key Working Relationships (internal):

Deans, Property Division

Key Working Relationships (external): Architects, Masterplanners, Planners

Contract type:

TBC

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