CAPITAL PROJECTS RECRUITMENT CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK
CONTENTS
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Executive Summary
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Senior Management Recruitment
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UCL Capital Programme
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Further Information
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Application Process
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
UCL is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 11,000 staff and 38,000 students from 150 different countries. Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any class, religion, and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men.
The UCL Estate comprises over 200 buildings valued in excess of £2 Billion, more than four million square feet of academic accommodation and c. 4000 student bedrooms. The scale, variety and complexity of the estate are unparalleled in the sector. UCL Estates manages the estate and facilities infrastructure from the strategic to the operational, across property acquisition and management, capital projects, engineering and maintenance, environmental sustainability, safety, security, cleaning and including student residences and central room bookings. UCL Estates strive to provide a co-ordinated and customer oriented approach to developing, maintaining and adapting UCL’s estate and a wide range of support services to create an environment which supports UCL’s academic mission.
The Key Aims of the Estates Strategy are: - Enabling the Academic Mission and supporting change - Transforming facilities fit for world leading research and excellence in teaching and learning - Delivering an excellent student and staff experience - Transparency, accountability, integrated service delivery with efficient and effective customer service - Good custodians of the Institution’s assets - Enabling a sustainable and safe university Over recent years, acquisitions and the integration of a number of Post Graduate Institutes (previously known as the Satellite Estate) has substantially increased the scale and complexity of the estate falling within the remit of the Division.
A recent restructure of the division has established two key Leadership Team positions: • Deputy Director of Estates/Director, Major Projects is responsible for delivering a number of key major projects including UCL’s new campus at Stratford (UCL East), Dementia Research Institute and Moorfield’s Eye Hospital. • Director, Estates Development is responsible for delivering a programme of key projects primarily within UCL’s central Bloomsbury campus but additionally with a number of partner organisations including hospitals and research bodies. Estates projects range in scale, complexity and value (£½m to £500m) and must be delivered to specification, cost and time, frequently within a highly congested and busy operational environment where quality of student and staff experience throughout the works is also critical.
UCL is engaged in a very extensive, long term capital programme, a critical component of UCL 2034 and in support of both UCL’s teaching and research strategies, which requires a significant professional Estates resource to ensure its successful delivery. Based on the requirements to deliver UCL’s projected £1.25 billion capital programme UCL Estates is embarking on a period of transformation to ensure that the Estates Development and Major Projects teams are resourced and organised in line with best practice and the scale of what needs to be achieved. It is essential that a robust, stable programme and project team is established which will build on-going capacity to ensure a depth of expertise and the sharing of good practice across all programmes. UCL Estates is therefore seeking to build an industry-leading
team of professionals with the capability, track record and drive to develop, deliver and mobilise projects that will deliver world-class facilities for London’s global University. The team will be developed to give both depth and breadth of resource, with project management professionals appointed at middle, senior and director level in addition to multidisciplinary appointments to give in-house intelligence and capability across space management, property, engineering, health & safety and project transition & mobilisation. UCL Estates places a very heavy emphasis on quality, safety, value and exceptional stakeholder engagement. We are therefore seeking best-in-class individuals that possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a flexible, collaborative, highly motivated and resilient disposition.
UCL CAPITAL PROGRAMME SENIOR MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT
CAPITAL PROGRAMME – SENIOR MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT The first phase of this transformation programme is to recruit a team of five key senior professionals reporting to the Deputy Director of Estates/Director of Major Projects or the Director, Estates Development, who will be responsible for leading and managing the delivery and mobilisation of major capital projects and/or a range of complex capital and small works projects including new build, refurbishments and improvements across the UCL estate: Assistant Director, Capital Projects (<£5m) The Assistant Director Capital Projects (<£5m) will lead an in-house team of project managers in the design, contract administration and project management of a diverse range of refurbishment and fit-out estate development projects typically ranging from £100k to £5m in value. Projects will span the entire breadth of the UCL estate portfolio will mostly consist of technically complex project delivered in live environments. Candidates for this role will have a proven track record of leading the delivery of a complex portfolio of minor capital projects across a technically complex, multi-site estate portfolio. Experience of managing a team of in-house professionals in the design and contract administration of complex refurbishment, fit-out and alteration projects would lend itself extremely well to this role. Assistant Director, Capital Projects (>£5m) The Assistant Director Capital Projects will lead a team of internal and external project managers in the delivery of a diverse range of refurbishment and new-build estate development projects typically ranging from £5m to £100m in value. Projects will be delivered predominately across UCL’s core Bloomsbury campus and the student accommodation portfolio. Candidates for this role will have a proven track record of leading the delivery of a portfolio of complex medium and large scale capital projects through the management of internal and external project management professionals. Experience of capital programme management across a diverse, complex estate portfolio preferably across an urban environment is essential.
UCL CAPITAL PROGRAMME SENIOR MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT
Assistant Director, UCL East The Assistant Director for UCL East will act as the client side Project Director for the largest ever single expansion of UCL since the University was founded nearly 200 years ago. It will be a new UCL campus, complementing the Bloomsbury campus, and will be located on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to the south of the Aquatics Centre and the ArcelorMittal Orbit. Phase 1 consists of the delivery of the first two buildings for the campus of a combined 50,000 sqm. Candidates for this role with have significant experience in a project delivery role with lead responsibility for managing large scale projects in excess of £50m in value. They will possess a track record of managing projects with comparable characteristics to those found at UCL East such as large scale, mixed-use new-build projects. Assistant Director, Institute of Neurology / Dementia Research Institute The Assistant Director, IoN (Institute of Neurology) and DRI (Dementia Research Institute) will act as the client side Project Director for new, world leading research facilities for the Institute of Neurology and the new hub for the UK Dementia Research Institute. The project will be an immensely technically complex, large scale and high-profile project delivered in the heart of Central London from project inception to completion. Candidates for this role will have a proven track record of leading and managing large scale projects in excess of £50m in value and of a technically complex nature. You will possess strong experience of leading the formative stages of projects including elements such as brief development, planning and design development. Experience of leading large scale, technically complex projects in urban environments in the science, academic or healthcare sectors would be particularly advantageous. Assistant Director, Project Mobilisation The Assistant Director, Project Mobilisation will take responsibility for leading and managing the mobilisation and transition (soft landings and assurance) of major capital projects and a range of complex capital and small works projects including new build, refurbishments and improvements across the UCL estate. The postholder will ensure that all projects are developed, delivered and brought in to operational service with the highest levels of assurance thus ensuring high standards of quality, safety, communication, stakeholder experience and customer delight. Candidates for this role will possess demonstrable experience in mobilisation and transition of major capital projects across a busy estate. Strong strategic planning skills are required including particular capability in monitoring, risk management, reporting and auditing. It is anticipated that potential candidates will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work positively and effectively across a broad range of stakeholder groups.
THE UCL CAPITAL PROGRAMME
Current projects include: • UCL East. UCL East represents the largest ever single expansion of UCL since the University was founded nearly 200 years ago. It will be a new UCL campus, complementing the Bloomsbury campus, and will be located on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to the south of the Aquatics Centre and the ArcelorMittal Orbit. Phase 1 consists of the delivery of the first two buildings for the campus of a combined 50,000 sqm. • UCL Institute of Neurology. UCL has been selected as the ‘hub’ of the new £250m UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI). • A ‘deep retrofit’ for The Bartlett School of Architecture. Value £33m. • Wilkins Terrace & Lower Refectory, A new space for learning, events and exhibitions at UCL. Value £27m. • New Student Centre, Outstanding new facilities to improve the student experience at UCL. Value £70m. • Refurbishment of teaching, research and social learning spaces for UCL Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Physics and Astrophysics. Value £26m. • Creating state of the art teaching and learning spaces for the world-class Faculty of Law. Value £24m. • A new institute for ground-breaking collaboration between the Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, the Centre for Medical Imaging and the Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Value £17m. • New accessible, communal accommodation for UCL Students in Bloomsbury. Value £32m. • The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, a new research centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. Value £105m.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Employee Benefits UCL is a dynamic, global university based in one of the most exciting capital cities in the world. Not only does working at UCL offer the opportunity to work with some of the greatest intellects in the world, it also offers competitive terms, conditions and benefits to its staff. In the 2013 UCL staff survey, 83% of staff would recommend UCL as a good place to work and 86% are proud to work for UCL. As part of the UCL community you can access free lunch hour lectures, exhibitions and museums and collections. The NUS Extra Card is available to UCL staff as well as students and can provide fantastic savings across a multitude of online and high street stores. On campus UCL has the Bloomsbury theatre hosting a range of performances and a series of bars, cafés and other facilities which UCL staff can use. In addition to 41 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and closure days) and generous pension schemes, UCL provides a number of other staff benefits outlined below. • Excellent provision for professional development • The UCL Study Assistance scheme • The UCL Cycle scheme • The UCL Eye Care scheme • Voluntary Healthcare schemes • Subsidised access to a range of health and fitness facilities • Childcare Voucher scheme • The offer of an interest-free season ticket loan • Various family friendly benefits and support Further information about the USS pension scheme and the benefits it provides can be found at www.uss.co.uk. UCL benefits and policies apply equally, whatever the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of employees. Benefits and policies relating to employees partners, includes both different sex and same sex partners. Work location The permanent base for each of the posts is at Bidborough House, in UCL Estates’ recently refurbished, modern, open-plan offices. Given the scale and nature of the UCL estate postholders will be expected to work across the UCL portfolio as the needs of the role dictate. Salary level The anticipated salary levels for both of the Assistant Director Capital Projects posts, the Assistant Director UCL East post and the Assistant Director Dementia Research Institute post is c. £90,000. The anticipated salary level for the Assistant Director, Project Mobilisation post is c. £80,000.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To arrange a confidential conversation to discuss the opportunities in more depth, please contact Bex Palmer of The Management Recruitment Group on 0207 959 2368 or ucl@mrgpeople.co.uk. Bex will schedule a call with the Lead Consultant for the appropriate role(s). The Lead Consultant for the respective campaigns is as follows: • Assistant Director, Capital Projects (>£5m) – Ben Duffill • Assistant Director, Capital Projects (<£5m) – Ben Duffill • Assistant Director, UCL East – Ben Duffill • Assistant Director, Institute of Neurology / Dementia Research Institute – Ben Duffill • Assistant Director, Project Mobilisation – Michael Hewlett Applications should consist of a comprehensive CV (of not more than 4 pages) and a covering letter (of not more than 2 pages). Applications should be sent to ucl@mrgpeople.co.uk clearly quoting the post title of the role to be applied for. The closing date for applications is 1st October 2017. Interviews will take place during late October and early November 2017.
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