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About Our Client

Crown Estate Scotland is a public corporation that manages the buildings, land, coastline, and seabed which make up the assets of the Scottish Crown Estate. These assets are managed, on a commercial basis, by Crown Estate Scotland which was established in 2017. The annual revenue surplus from the Scottish Crown Estate is passed to Scottish Government for public spending.

The Scottish Crown Estate comprises virtually all the Scottish seabed out to 12 nautical miles, just under half the foreshore, and four rural estates comprising 37,000 hectares of land - Glenlivet and Fochabers estates in Moray, Applegirth in Dumfries & Galloway, and Whitehill in Midlothian. Most of the land on these estates is let for a variety of uses, including farming (around 200 tenanted farms/agricultural leases), residential, commercial, sporting and mineral operations. Commercial forestry on the estates is managed directly, apart from some areas of other woodland which are managed within farm tenancies.

Job Description

Key responsibilities of the role will include but will not be limited to:

• Deliver high number of projects, across a diverse portfolio, simultaneously.
• Deliver projects in a safe & environmentally responsible manner to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the Crown Estate Scotland's PMO standards, procedures, SPFM and current legislation.
• Maintain governance arrangements in accordance with Crown Estate Scotland corporate project governance by ensuring clear roles and responsibilities, managing and assuring the project through the project lifecycle stages and holding gateway reviews at appropriate time intervals to inform governance decision making. Considering progress, risk and alignment with organisational goals.
• Take responsibility for the full project lifecycle and effective delivery of outcomes, including
  wider value.
• Support Project Manager - Development in preparing and defining requirements.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to identify cost and value effective solutions to project
  requirements.
• Liaise with managing agents, external legal advisors, and Crown Estate Scotland colleagues
  across the organisation to ensure timely project delivery approvals and sign offs, as required
  throughout the life cycle of a project.
• Select, appoint and manage external project consultants to work alongside the in-house
  asset/development managers and external partners, in the delivery of projects.
• Managing appropriate project budgets, contracts and supporting procurement exercises.
• Progress all delegated duties form the Head of Built Development in line with current and
  emerging priorities.
• Ability to develop solutions to support effective project delivery, required in the Scottish Crown
  Estate to deliver objectives over both the short and long term sometimes balancing competing
  priorities.
• Ability to think creatively to arrive at innovative solutions to problems in a changing legislative
  and governance environment.
• The post holder will be predominantly autonomous in regard to problem solving, discussing with
  colleagues as appropriate.
• Ability to cut through to the heart of an issue to provide a rounded solution that delivers on our
  duty to deliver financial and non-financial value.

The Successful Applicant

The successful candidate will embody the following criteria:

• Educated to degree level in relevant discipline with (or working towards)relevant professional membership, such as RICS / ICE / APM or equivalent experience.
• Masters degree/post graduate or qualification in a relevant discipline
• Experience of working to deadlines within a multi-disciplinary team with accountability for budgets and achieving performance targets, including new business development.
• Evidence of financial and commercial acumen, including experience of commercial negotiation and transactional and legal activities and processes associated with contracts and agreements.
• Ability and comfortable in working with and instructing multidisciplinary teams/consultants/managing agents, asset managers, development managers and solicitors.
• Ability to work with and develop new initiatives taking them through internal governance process to fullfledged projects.
• The successful applicant will have acquired 5+ years' experience leading a variety of capital projects, across a range of settings including public and private sectors, to deliver newbuilds, refurbishments and improvement projects.
• Experience in managing projects in a diverse property portfolio, including rural and/or coastal assets with a
  working knowledge of key challenges affecting these communities in Scotland.
• Experience in working in an outsourced business model (client side).
• Experience in project management from initiation to completion.
• Experience in writing and presenting reports to Board and committees.
• Full Driving licence.

What's on Offer

A competitive public sector salary with civil service pension package and excellent benefits on offer.