Head Of Capital Projects: Critical Infrastructure

Head of Capital Projects: Critical Infrastructure

Estates and Capital Projects Department
Full-time
Fixed-Term Contract 6 months initially, with possibility of up to 12 months
£64,050 per annum 
Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 02 May 2024

About the role:

Join the British Museum in this unique new role piloting a new programme of Critical Infrastructure (CI) – fabric and MEP projects while supporting the museum to around 6 million visitors annually. This is a crucial role, involving working closely with senior stakeholders, supply-chain partners, and the support teams across the museum.

To provide strategic management and professional programme management discipline and skill on all Critical Infrastructure capital development activity across the estate, developing effective management systems and operating environment that promotes ownership and efficient and dynamic delivery. With excellent communication and people engagement skills, forge new and maintain key relationships with stakeholders and peer groups.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Provide effective leadership promoting improved communication exchange and teamwork to the Museum’s capital programming and projects activity: driving the delivery of Capital planning, programming and budgets, asset and information management (BIM), from inception to final handover
• Supporting the Head of CD, act as the lead representative in owning delivery and shaping the strategy of CD CI workstream transformational change programmes in response to MP activity
• Manage CD CI input on emerging organisational strategies
• Own change programmes within the Capital Development section relating to CI activity
• Design, develop and manage an end to end process that will provide oversight and control to the delivery of all Critical InfrastructureCapital Projects.

About you:

You will have excellent management skills, maintaining oversight of the properties, budgets, several professionals and a team of staff. Working on highly technical projects, you will have a keen knowledge of legislative requirements for buildings, capital programming, projects and planning, and ideally have an understanding of building conservation.

You will have strong experience of client-side Project Management of high profile, public facing Capital Projects in a leading public institution or similar large organisation. You will work well in an environment which is susceptible to changes. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will ensure that deadlines are met. As a managerial role, you will have had prior experience managing teams and projects.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is one of the leading visitor attractions and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.

The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave allowance (25 annual leave + 2.5 privilege days)
• Generous civil service pension (employer contribution of 27.1%)
• Professional and personal development opportunities, including further education programme opportunities (funding and study leave) aligned to role’s responsivities and department service offer
• Working in the heart of Bloomsbury, London in the new World Conservation and Exhibition Centre (WCEC)
• Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities
• Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases

To apply please click here.

Additional details:

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.

The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a Museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills and experience.

[We are currently piloting a flexible way of working that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you]

The Museum also adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.