5 months contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

• The Interim Head of Schools Capital Projects will provide strategic leadership and operational management for a complex portfolio of schools capital programmes, including mainstream and SEND school expansions, PFI and BSF contracts.
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• Provide leadership across schools capital programmes, including expansions, condition projects, PFI and BSF contracts.
  
• Manage Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Senior Contract Managers and the PFI Strategic Lead.
  
• Act as the Intelligent Client for schools capital projects, ensuring effective governance and delivery.
  
• Lead development of education projects in collaboration with sponsors, users and the Department for Education (DfE).
  

Essential Experience Required

• Significant experience managing large‑scale schools capital programmes from inception to completion.
  
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across the built environment.
  
• Acting as Client Project Manager on complex, high‑value projects.
  
• Strong experience of PFI/BSF contract management and completion.
  

Essential Qualifications Required

• Degree in a Built Environment discipline (e.g. Architecture, Surveying, Engineering).
  
• Professional qualification: RIBA, RICS, CIOB or ACE.
  
• Construction industry recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APM, RICS, CIOB).
  

Additional information to note

• Working Hours: 35 hours per week.
  
• Cunard Building, Water Street, Pier Head, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2  2BS, United Kingdom
  
• Work pattern- 2 days remote 3 days in Cunard
  
• We work on bi-weekly schedule.
  

The role closes on 22^nd April 2026, apply ASAP.