Total 2 Director/C-Level Construction / Property job vacancies in Derby - Raynesway (UK-DNA)

Please note, if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be added to the merit list for the campaign. We will then appoint candidates as Senior Project Sponsor (Project Delivery) posts become available. This will be based on merit order. Please be advised, that being successful in the recruitment process and being placed on the merit list does not guarantee an offer of employment.

Overview

The MoJ Property Directorate is a customer focused organisation that exists to enable our customers to perform to their very best. We do this by providing high quality, easy to use services, and working environments that our customers want to work in, which support them to deliver their individual outputs efficiently. Our job is to manage one of the most diverse and complex estates in Government – hosted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). As of 2 April 2021, the Prisons Maintenance Group (or PMG) joined MoJ Estates Directorate and the team receives a new title, MoJ Property Directorate. This change aligns us with our Profession – the Property Profession - and brings together a property portfolio including Prisons, Probation, and MoJ HQ and Arms Length Bodies. We also provide property services on behalf of the Home Office.

MoJ Property provides specialist services including facilities management, health and safety, fire safety and security, technical design expertise, and sustainability. We also have business management teams who support the entire Directorate and each of our partners is supported by account management teams. We are responsible for a great deal - our portfolio consists of properties valued at £8.5bn for the MoJ alone. We are part of the Government Property Profession (GPP) and through active membership and engagement we will work with the Office of Government Property to develop the maturity of the profession and also encourage our people to join the GPP. We continue to build our capability through training and recruitment, aspiring to be the best that we can be as individuals and as a directorate.
We continue to deliver new ways of working across our portfolio – leading on the scale and pace of activity for central government – proposing ways to achieve, and then providing more dynamic and flexible workspace, while driving down the cost of the estate.

Team Overview

The post holder is accountable to the Head of Programme Delivery for the successful, timely and quality delivery of all a portfolio construction/fitout projects across the MoJ family: prisons, investment, reform and Capital maintenance; probation investment, reform, Capital maintenance; court investment, reform; sustainable development; Home Office change and
maintenance, considering the sustainable, social and economic and environmental policies. The number projects in a Senior project sponsors portfolio can vary, but is normally in the region of 40 projects at various Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA) stages. The post holder delivers their work through an outsourced frameworks of professional service providers and constructors.

Job Description, Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Working with a range of end users, judiciary, prison governors, probation, HMPPS leads to develop and facilities management to develop project proposals at mandate through to timely completion, within budget envelops; evidencing value for money solutions and benefits realisation.
• Working with Directorate Account Management teams in delivering successful
• Timely drafting and submission of individual project option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases and board papers; driving design innovation.
• Working with commercial teams to procure supply chain resources, by providing the appropriate project briefs.
• Managing the performance of supply chain partners, through providing clear instructions; and collating and reporting on key performance measures
• Identifying risks and issues and making sure mitigation plans are in place; submitting early warning notices when contractual remedies are thought to be required.
• Embedding wider efficiency targets set by the Cabinet Office and IPA, such as the implementation of building information modelling, government soft landings by the inclusion of FM professionals; and collaborative procurement, particularly early contractor engagement and project bank accounts.
• Regularly holding to account and supporting team members who support the Senior Project Sponsors.
• Line management and leadership of a team, providing strong professional
• Making sure critical paths are in place for all projects and Project Performance Indicators (PPIs) are in place and the resulting data is used to keep project to time and quality.
• Making sure project detail sheets are submitted on time, having first challenged and assured the data and information being supplied is accurate.
• Manage the end to end requisition to pay process, making sure prompt and fair payment is made.
• Ensuring lessons learned are carried out as best practice and findings are collected and distributed across stakeholder groups, including technical services, FM, commercial, and post project evaluations are conducted and recorded; report benefits in line with those set out in the business case(s)
• Frequent travel will be required across England and Wales and on occasions, Scotland

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

This position supports the Ankura Construction, Disputes & Advisory Business Group - one of seven practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm.

Ankura is recognised as one of the five fastest growing consulting companies with 2000 employees across 32 offices in four continents, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.

We are looking for a ‘rising star’ to complement our talented team of delay experts. Our construction dispute resolution professionals provide expert advice and independent professional opinion on some of the world’s largest, most complex, and high-profile capital project disputes. Courts, corporations, and tribunals rely on us to get to the nub of the issue in any given dispute. We develop efficient and robust delay analyses and present our conclusions in a clear, concise, and objective manner to enable the resolution of complex disputes.

This is a key role, operating in a fast-paced culture, and will suit a candidate with the ambition and desire to grow and develop in the dispute’s world, whilst we provide the opportunity and training to support you in that endeavour, including excellent networking opportunities. The role will involve frequent client interaction, including preparing and presenting results. 

You will have the opportunity to work with highly reputable, specialist expert witnesses, recognised by Who’s Who Legal Lexology. You will be part of a talented team of experts working on some of the world’s most interesting and significant project disputes.

You will work from our London office. However, we support flexible working arrangements and are interested to discuss how we can accommodate individual requirements.

The international nature of our work means that successful candidates should be prepared to travel globally, sometimes at short notice. You will have the opportunity to broaden your experience by working on complex and landmark projects in the construction and engineering sector all over the globe including France.

Why Join Ankura

• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.

• Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.

• Work within a team of world recognised leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.

• Work with a collaborative environment, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.

Requirements:

• You will be an experienced people manager running small teams, comfortable delegating and actively supporting the development of junior members of the team.

• Whilst experience of giving evidence / testifying isn’t necessary at this stage, you will have an aspiration to do so in the future,

• You may not yet be generating leads but may be starting to get appointments in your own right and are comfortable actively networking.

• You will have a background in construction or engineering with a related degree.

• Professional chartered membership e.g., RICS, ICE.

• Broad experience across a range of large infrastructure construction projects (oil & gas, infrastructure, buildings, public works).

• Demonstrable Planning or Project Management experience skills including compiling and/or reviewing claims.

• Have a good understanding of project control and management systems.

• Be able to analyse and assess project data and documentation.

• Excellent report writing skills.

• Experienced in the production of comprehensive delay analyses and high-quality graphics.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Good analytical and data management skills.

• Problem solver with an enquiring mind.

• Good team working skills and the ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure within a team or as an individual.

• Fluent in English and French is essential.

• Travel flexible both national and international.

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