Head of Estates, Capital Projects and Development

Head of Infrastructure and Development

£61,000 to £67,000

London with hybrid working

About The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Students from all over the world come to study at Central and the reason for this is that it offers Europe's most comprehensive choice of specialist higher education drama, theatre and performance training. Central prides itself on offering a safe and supportive environment, where students are challenged to be original thinkers, inventive and effective collaborators and creative entrepreneurs.

Central is a learning organisation that celebrates the diversity of its workforce and student population, and believes it benefits from recruiting people of different ages, abilities, identities, sexual orientations, race, ethnicities, genders, religions and beliefs. It provides a truly inclusive environment, and is focussed on providing a positive and inclusive working environment.

In order to continue to offer such excellence Central has a clear strategic plan which will allow them to respond quickly and in an agile manner to embrace global and higher education change. A key part of this strategic plan is the focus on Infrastructure and Environment, and Central has a clear goal to build an inspirational environment and efficient and effective infrastructure to support our student and staff community, and key to this is the appointment of the Head of Infrastructure and Development.

The Role

As the Head of Infrastructure and Development you will be responsible for implementing strategic planning, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring the financial sustainability of the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ)'s research activities. This role will include working with the heads of technical teams, oversight of the Creative Technologists, managing E3 project infrastructure progress, milestones and reporting.

Working collaboratively across Central, your role will include:

• Provide high quality and proactive leadership of PTEQ's capital spend and planned building and project phases.
• Develop a detailed programme of works highlighting project dependencies, critical paths and key project and financial milestones.
• Develop a prioritised plan of actions for contractors and consultants considering lead-times, intrusive works and available access to project site.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and support in strategic decision-making processes to effectively deliver all activities, including decant during building works, ensuring clear and timely communication with all impacted parties.
• Create a project communication plan, to identify stakeholders, method of communication and level of detail required by each stakeholder.
• Lead all risk management and oversight compliance, creating and managing a project risk register.

The role will be key in developing, implementing and monitoring project management procedures and the post holder will be required to Pro-actively engage with internal and external stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that feedback is captured and used to improve existing processes and allow future improvement.

The Person

To be considered for the role you will ideally hold a project management qualification such as APM or Prince2 and also be IOSH or NEBOSH qualified. You will also have experience of Construction Design Management Regulations 2015 and have worked in a role in which you have project managed capital budget management, spend and building works programmes. Experience in higher education would be an advantage.

Disability Confident Scheme

Central will shortly be launching the Disability Confident Scheme. This recruitment campaign forms part of a pilot to help us structure our 'Disability Confident Committed' framework. This is a government initiative aimed at promoting equal employment opportunities for disabled people and to create a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive and supportive.

We actively encourage disabled people to apply for our job vacancies, and we welcome applications from candidates with all types of disabilities. As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we commit to offering an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum selection criteria for the job. To be considered for an interview under this scheme you must have:

• a physical or mental impairment, or a long-term health condition which has a substantial and long term (over 12 months) adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
• demonstrated in your application that you meet the minimum job criteria as set out in the advert or person specification for the post.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, including neurodivergent candidates, LGBTQ+ and Global Majority backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented within the sector and within Central.

For further information about the role or to request a copy of the full job description please contact Joanne Till at Morgan Law on or email

Please note Morgan Law are managing this campaign on behalf of Central and any CVs sent directly will not be considered.