WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ESTATES & FACILITIES JOHN PLUMRIDGE
Dear applicant, Thank you for your interest in the Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities (Development) role at BCU. Please find enclosed the further particulars regarding the opportunity in what is an exciting period of transformation for the University.
With around 24,000 students from 80 countries, Birmingham City University is a large, diverse and increasingly popular place to study. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student-focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state-of-the-art facilities, first-rate staff, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance is producing some of the country’s most employable graduates. Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we will work with each other. Our core values are Excellence, People focused, Partnership working and Fairness and integrity. It has been an interesting few years with plenty of achievements to celebrate, including the completion of our flagship Curzon Building at the City Centre Campus, providing a new home for our Business, Law, Social Science and English courses as well as new library, IT and social facilities. This has helped us to create a bigger student community at the heart of the city centre with greater opportunity for students to meet and collaborate. Since 2017 most students have been based at our two main campuses following completion of the award-winning new building for the Birmingham Conservatoire on the City Centre Campus, together with the School of Educa- tion and our developing Sport and Life Science Provision occupying a new building at the City South Campus. We are particularly excited about the development of the Knowledge Hub. The Knowledge Hub concept builds on the enormous strengths of a constellation of neighbouring institutions, universities, colleges, academies and innovation space so that we become a whole greater than the sum of its parts. The Knowledge Hub will become a magnet for enterprise, entrepreneurship, innovation, well-being, culture and business exchange, connecting with the new developments of the Curzon and Big City masterplans. It will transform the Eastside of Birmingham. The Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities (Development) is a pivotal appointment for the University and will play a significant role as a key partner for influencing the City’s regeneration. If you recognise this commitment to ambition and would like to contribute your expertise, I would encourage you to apply.
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