Job Description (1)
Job title: Estates Cost Manager Accountable to: Director of Estates and Associate Director of Finance Contract length: Permanent
Hours per week: 35 Weeks per year: 52 Grade:
7 (£52,073 to £70,230) Operations and External Affairs
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Location:
The Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA
Who are we? UAL is a world Top 6 university for art and design according to the QS World University Rankings® and Europe’s largest specialist university for art and design. One of UAL’s key goals is to provide an inspirational environment. This strategic ambition requires the University to have a world-class physical environment and underlying infrastructure that support our students and staff in their academic ambitions and increases our engagement with our wider communities. We will do this by delivering sustainable new environments, with an emphasis on delivering new academic buildings wherever existing facilities are not consistent with our ambitions. This strategic ambition is being realised with capital investment across the 170,000 sqm estate across 16 locations. Significant projects include new and enhanced academic buildings for London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, Wimbledon College of Arts and Camberwell College of Arts. We are also developing our portfolio of UAL owned halls of residence. This major transformational change is exciting and challenging and the role is pivotal in ensuring the University has robust financial measures in place to anticipate and manage risks and ensure value for money. Purpose of Role Reporting to the Director of Estates and Associate Director of Finance, you will provide strategic and commercial leadership on all cost management, programme, and contractual matters within the estates directorate. You will provide a professional support service to the Estates Senior Management Team in the delivery of its services related to all business units across the estates department including the capital projects delivery and facilities management operations. You will also provide a governance link to the finance team in auditing the work of other cost professionals on large and major projects. You will be the cost and commercial professional for Estates activities across the entirety of the UAL estate portfolio, with oversight of all contractual and financial aspects of project and service delivery – budgeting, forecasting, cost control reporting and supply chain management.
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