3. Experience • Significant relevant management and leadership experience. • Experience of leading, managing and developing a team of professional project management / design staff. • Experience of advising and influencing at senior levels. • Extensive experience of contract administration and project management on complex multi-million £ projects, preferably in the HE sector. Experience to be evidenced on several projects over £15m in value from inception stage through to project completion stage 4. Skills & Abilities • Experience in the University Sector. • Have strong interpersonal skills including negotiating, influencing and relationship / partnership building. • Ability to work to programmes and deadlines. • Ability to understand the requirements of non-construction professionals and anticipate their needs. • Ability to work efficiently and accurately. • Ability to prioritise and handle high volumes of work to balance the needs of a number of schemes/ projects that will be running concurrently. • Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills. • Good oral and written communications. • Self-motivated with evidence of working under own initiative to deliver high quality complex projects. • Experience of acting as a reviewer on complex designs. • Familiar with Microsoft Office suite. 5. Additional Attributes Required (Not Incorporated Above) • Innovative thinking. • Be able and willing to attend essential out-of-hours work related activities. • Be able and willing to comply with the requirements of the Staff Handbooks and Manuals of Procedures. • Be willing to keep daily records on a central database to allow benchmarking of in-house costs against providers of similar services. • Be willing to complete a day book held centrally to identify where the role holder might be contacted. • Be assertive, self-reliant and accepting of responsibility. • Be capable of applying rules and standards rigorously. • Be capable of undertaking a heavy workload at times to strict deadlines. • Demonstrate positive attitude towards customer care. • Possess commercial awareness and be committed to quality and performance monitoring. • To be flexible and creative enough to propose a range of solutions to complex problems. • Physical/ Sensory - Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment and be able to:
• Climb ladders • Access roofs • Access confined spaces • Walk long distances • Carry out inspections, surveys etc. on construction sites.
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