Director of Property & Facilities, University of London, 2016
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Property & Facilities is responsible for leading on all aspects of the property portfolio including the capital programme, operational facilities management and all facets of asset management. The remits covers their iconic estates in the heart of Central London (including the Senate House) where the post holder is responsible for delivering their ambitious 2015 to 2020 estates strategy. The capital development programme includes a £20m residences refurbishment, £6m library refurbishment, £10m p.a. maintenance programme and a £4m investment property programme. The brief was to engage with professionals who were exceptional leaders with a proven track record of developing and implementing property strategies across a comparable diverse and complex portfolio. The successful candidate was a qualified Architect who following an earlier career within private practice spent six years as Director of Estates with the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) before moving in the NHS as Director of Environment and Infrastructure (Board level role) with a large acute trust.
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Director of Estates & Facilities Management, University of Sussex, 2017
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Estates & Facilities Management is responsible for the University’s £500 million masterplan in a period of significant change to lead a programme of investment to modernise and improve the campus. The masterplan provides a framework for the future development of the campus and includes projects to provide new state-of-the-art academic and research facilities; a new student village consisting of 2,500 new student rooms on campus to support the University’s growth plans; and significant investment in the preservation of Sir Basil Spence’s famous listed buildings and surrounding landscape. The mandate was to appoint a Director to lead the further development and implementation of the masterplan whilst taking strategic leadership responsibility for ensuring high quality facilities management provision across the University. The successful candidate appointed came from National University of Singapore where he held the post of Associate Vice President Campus Infrastructure.
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