UCL - Cost Manager

UCL - Cost Manager

COST MANAGER CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK

CONTENTS

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Introduction

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Recruitment to the Capital Projects team

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Job Description

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Person Specification

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Further Information

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Application Process

INTRODUCTION

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.

UCL’s estate is unique, rich in history, at the heart of London and diverse in use.

Our 230 buildings are predominately located in Bloomsbury but with a number of specialist satellite sites beyond that. UCL Estates are excited to be playing a key role in the delivery of UCL’s 20-year strategy, UCL2034, including the realisation of UCL East, our new campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which will offer world class research, teaching and living accommodation within the largest cultural and educational development in Europe.

UCL Estates manages the estate and facilities infrastructure, from the strategic to the operational. This ranges from ensuring our estate is operating efficiently and safely to maintaining, developing and delivering our building and planning future strategic developments to support UCL’s academic ambition. UCL Estates services include property acquisition and management, capital projects, engineering and maintenance, environmental sustainability, safety, security, catering and cleaning. In addition, it manages the University and Customer Services switchboards, student residences, nursery and central teaching and meeting room bookings. We have a proud history and the ambition and drive to innovate. We strive to provide a co-ordinated and customer oriented approach

to both buildings and services, maintaining and transforming UCL’s estate, so that it directly contributes to the creation of a truly inspirational environment for our academics, students and staff. UCL has embarked on an extensive building and refurbishment programme – Transforming UCL. This is about creating sustainable spaces that meet UCL’s world-class aspirations and commitment to excellence and innovation. Transforming UCL is the largest capital programme in the University’s history. It has seen significant investment to refurbish and develop some of our most iconic buildings whilst also bringing forward new world class buildings. Together these will enable and support the University’s continued growth as we continue to build now and for the future.

UCL is midway through ‘Transforming UCL’, an extensive 10-year building and refurbishment programme that began in 2014. The first five years have led to a number of successfully complex projects. Many of these were completed within budget, enabling the funding of new and emerging projects. This investment has made a significant difference to perceptions of the Bloomsbury estate across the UCL community, with the recent completion of the New Student Centre, Bloomsbury Theatre and interim Dementia Research Institute within the Cruciform building all significant milestones in the programme. In the 5 years since the start of the capital of the current capital programme (August 2014), 155 Transforming UCL projects with a value of c.£570m have been completed. Over this period we have achieved a £27m forecast underspend, which has enabled the funding of new projects.

Looking ahead we have bold plans that will build on our recent success. We are continuing a project to transform the Institute of Education estate, embarking on Project Oriel, a £400m purpose built centre of excellent that will support pioneering eye research, education and treatment in partnership with Moorfields Hospital, progressing the development of our iconic new campus UCL East (Pool Street West and Marshgate forming phase 1) and planning the development of the £290m Institute of Neurology/Dementia Research Institute, a world class centre for advancing neurological research and treatments.

You can view further information on Transforming UCL here.

RECRUITMENT TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS TEAM

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 is being developed to give both depth and breadth of resources, 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.

The Cost Manager will support the delivery of the capital programme by undertaking pre and post contract quantity surveying activities on a diverse range of estate development projects whilst also taking responsibility for strategic cost management activities such as developing benchmarking >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14

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