Surrey County Council - Assistant Director, Capital Projects

Surrey County Council - Assistant Director, Capital Projects

Assistant Director Capital Projects Candidate Information Pack

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Welcome About Surrey County Council Community Vision for Surrey by 2030 Our Values About the Land and Property Team Land and Property Purpose and Strategic Priorities Land and Property Operating Structure The Role Person Specification Working at Surrey County Council Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Application Process

Surrey County Council (SCC) is unashamedly ambitious about what we can achieve, and the difference we can make to Surrey and our residents. Our guiding principle of No One Left Behind , runs through the way we seek to achieve our priority objectives and the way we deliver services. There are many fantastic things about working for Surrey County Council. There is an energy and drive in the organisation that has been vitally important to the successes we have experienced over the past few years. Incredibly able and committed colleagues make it a stimulating and enjoyable place to work, with unstinting support and investment for transformation and improvement. There is a strong sense of being part of a team, and it is a fast-moving environment where there are real opportunities to deliver lasting and meaningful change. By joining SCC and the Land and Property team you will be at the heart of this. Our ambitious capital programme, our service transformation planning and the way we are modernising our operations will ensure our key services can operate effectively and innovatively. We are looking for strong leaders who can maximise the great opportunities to deliver effective change across the Council. The Assistant Directors will join the L&P Senior Leadership Team and work closely with the Director. As a team we are working towards creating a very different culture: focusing on customer satisfaction and collaboration by working closely with business partners, District and Boroughs, the NHS and across the One Public Estate. As a large and high-profile County Council, with a growing reputation for an innovative and ambitious approach, we want you to join us and to deliver in a way that will further enhance our reputation, as well as your own. If Surrey County Council sounds like the sort of place that you would like to join, and you feel that you could make a positive contribution to our ambitious agenda then we would love to hear from you. To be a success, being able to collaborate and influence with a proven track record of delivery in the specialist fields will be a definite advantage. Thank you again for your interest in this role, and I look forward to meeting you should you choose to take forward an application.

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Thank you for your interest in joining Surrey County Council and in the role of Assistant Director - Capital Projects. As well as the position of Assistant Director - Capital Projects we are continuing to invest in our people and recruiting another key role within Land and Property, an Assistant Director – Facilities Management. Our story over the past three years is one of impressive progress across the Council and unprecedented investment to transform and optimise our diverse portfolio, and we are now looking for further talent to join us in these important appointments to help us move to the next level. Land and Property (L&P) will play a key part in making the Vision for Surrey a reality and developing an estate that delivers against its strategic priorities including growing a sustainable economy and enabling a greener future to ensure we meet our net zero targets. Welcome from Simon Crowther – Director of Land and Property, Surrey County Council

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About Surrey County Council Surrey has a central role to play in the regional and national economy, and Surrey County Council and its partners have a deeply held ambition for the county’s economy to be strong, vibrant and successful. We want Surrey to be a great place to live, work and learn; a place that capitalises on its location and natural assets, where communities feel supported, and people are able to support each other. Evidence tells us that while many residents and businesses thrive in Surrey, not everyone has the same opportunities to flourish. Surrey is an affluent county, and this image often disguises problems of inequality that some residents face. Our four priority objectives to address a different aspect of inequality are: • Growing a sustainable economy so everyone can benefit Surrey County Council is committed to tackling inequality, whether that is supporting businesses in Surrey to thrive, improving health outcomes for our most vulnerable residents, tackling the challenges climate change presents, or helping to create the conditions for residents and communities to better support themselves. The driving principle behind our strategy is to ensure no one is left behind. • Tackling health inequality • Enabling a greener future • Empowering communities

Community Vision for Surrey by 2030 By 2030 we want Surrey to be a uniquely special place where everyone has a great start to life, people live healthy and fulfilling lives, are enabled to achieve their full potential and contribute to their community, and no one is left behind. Our ambitions for people are: • Children and young people are safe and feel safe and confident. • Everyone benefits from education, skills and employment opportunities that help them succeed in life. • Everyone lives healthy, active and fulfilling lives, and makes good choices about their wellbeing. • Everyone gets the health and social care support and information they need at the right time and place. • Communities are welcoming and supportive, especially of those most in need, and people feel able to contribute to community life.

Our ambitions for our place are:

• Residents live in clean, safe and green communities, where people and organisations embrace their environmental responsibilities. • Journeys across the county are easier, more predictable and safer. • Everyone has a place they can call home, with appropriate housing for all. • Businesses in Surrey thrive. • Well connected communities, with effective infrastructure, that grow sustainably.

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Our Values

Our values show what we care about and will be crucial in delivering our Community Vision for Surrey in 2030.

We care about our residents We put our residents front and centre of everything we do.

We care about being excellent We set consistently high standards of performance and are prudent with our resources to achieve them.

We care about being open We are straightforward and transparent about our decisions and actions and set realistic expectations.

We care about working together We work with our partners, residents and colleagues to ensure the best possible outcomes for Surrey and its people.

We care about respecting others We listen to our residents, partners and colleagues and treat them fairly, with consideration and respect.

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About the Land and Property Team

In order to meet the aims of the Asset and Place Strategy, Surrey County Council is investing in two key senior appointments to its Land and Property Team: Assistant Director - Capital Projects Charged with transforming the way the organisation operates, so that it can deliver great services to residents, as set out in the Community Vision for Surrey by 2030. Responsible for providing expert advice to the Council’s Service Directors and Members and ensure that the processes and programmes for delivering projects are fit for purpose, achieve the Council’s objectives and contribute to the delivery of excellent service. Assistant Director - Facilities Management Responsible for the management and performance delivery of the FM service, ensuring a high-quality and customer-focused service is delivered at all times. This role is integral to the Council achieving the desired step change in both culture and approach to modernising services and responding to efficiency challenges.

The Land and Property Team is continuing to transform Surrey County Council’s property portfolio in line with its Asset and Place Strategy (2019-2030), which sets out the Council’s approach to the strategic management of its assets, how it will support service delivery, provide the Council income, promote growth and place shaping within Surrey, and deliver Surrey’s Community Vision. The portfolio is significant and diverse, incorporating over 700 operational assets and over 1100 non-operational assets. The team is key to supporting the delivery of services to the people of Surrey by way of increased efficiency, customer service and income generation across the estate. The portfolio is valued in excess of £1.2bn with a revenue budget in excess of £34m. The team is delivering a significant £0.5bn capital investment programme over the next five years.

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Land and Property Operating Structure

Land and Property Purpose and Strategic Priorities Purpose: To provide and sustain operational and investment property portfolios that are safe, flexible and value for money, enabling SCC to deliver its policies and services to our clients, partners and stakeholders to benefit the residents of Surrey.

Our strategic priorities are:

We achieve our purpose and deliver our priorities by:

• Portfolio consolidation to deliver economies of scale and capital receipts across the operational and non-operational estates. • Embed revenue savings and income generation targets, and improve our net financial position and enhance our VFM offer to SCC. • Deliver L&P’s contribution to net zero by enhancing the environmental performance of the operational estate by 2030. • Enhance the user experience by implementing a major capital and service improvement programmes to benefit our clients, stakeholders and residents.

• Establishing our operating model: ensuring clear lines of accountability and transparency for service delivery, underpinned by effective governance and risk management. • Being client driven: improving our understanding of SCC services and stakeholder needs, and consequently to better forecast and deliver to our clients’ requirements. • Leveraging the supplier market: to harness the capabilities of the supply chain that enables L&P to become responsive to change and transfers those risks better managed by external expertise. • Engaging effectively with our stakeholders and partners: working collaboratively within and across SCC and with other public authorities and voluntary, community and faith based organisations to identify and deliver asset-based opportunities. • Managing performance: developing and reporting on our key performance metrics that demonstrate delivery against the key principles in the Asset and Place Strategy and any other strategic priorities for SCC and our stakeholders.

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• Drive effective risk management and audit control, ensuring risk mitigation profiling. • Accountability for the successful delivery of all projects within the capital programme and other approved major works to pre-agreed quality, cost and time parameters, from inception to completion, providing regular reports to the L&P Senior Leadership Team, Service Directors and lead Cabinet Members on progress and outcomes. • Ensure all business impacts arising from the capital programme and major works are identified and tracked through an effective benefits realisation process and that maximum benefit is gained. • Lead on the development of budgeting, forecasting, cost control and monthly financial reporting, ensuring all project expenditure commitments, and all valuations, certificates and payments are properly authorised, controlled and monitored. • Lead in the integration of space management policies which fall out of the Working Closer to Residents programme, while developing an innovative approach to space use. • Lead in the development of processes, methodologies and templates for the capital programme process, including options appraisals and the collection of performance >Page 1 Page 2-3 Page 4-5 Page 6-7 Page 8-9 Page 10-11 Page 12-13 Page 14-15 Page 16-17 Page 18-19 Page 20

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