Senior Capital Investment Manager (Major Works) WCC623743

Westminster City Council • Full-time • Westminster, LND, GB • 1w ago

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Job Details:

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.

Salary range: £56,436 - £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 3 May 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF KATE’S PASSION FOR NUMBERS AND PEOPLE.

Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work.

Take Kate, an absolute wizard at managing housing asset data for our annual £50m capital programme. Kate’s an inspiration to her team. Now a senior manager, she first joined as a college leaver in finance. Through Westminster’s encouragement, as well as her own hard work and determination, she’s gained professional qualifications and taken on a series of increasingly stretching roles.

Today, we depend on Kate’s analytical powers to keep track of the condition of over 21,000 of our tenanted and leasehold homes – from roofs and windows to kitchens and bathrooms. Kate’s committed to achieving the Decent Homes Standard for all our tenants and a high standard for all our leaseholders. Her passion is numbers but, because she grew up in social housing, she also understands the human stories behind the data.

More than that she understands the disruption renewal work entails. So when an elderly resident’s family mentioned that their mother needed not just a new kitchen, but adaptations to her bathroom, Kate got right on to it. She co-ordinated with colleagues to assess the resident’s disability needs.

Kate’s worked hard to ensure our routine external and internal stock condition surveys pick up on repairs and health & safety issues at the same time. And, by recognising patterns in the data that’s gathered, she makes a vital contribution to forward planning for large-scale capital renewal works.

The Role:

As Senior Capital Investment Manager, you too can powerful contribution. You’ll strategically lead and take programme-level accountability of the Westminster Major Works. The team delivers complex capital projects across Westminster’s housing stock. Our goal is for homes to be safe, high quality and sustainable. We manage construction programmes, engage residents, oversee contractors, uphold governance, value for money, and regulatory compliance. You’ll drive meaningful improvement for thousands of residents, embedding high-quality technical delivery with trust, transparency and accountability.

You will set the delivery framework to ensure excellent project, quality and contract management and drive successful delivery of the Housing Asset Strategy objectives. You will lead and nurture a talented team of Capital Investment Managers and Clerks of Works. By role modelling innovation and excellence, others will be inspired to do the same. Plus, you’ll provide senior-level insights to resolve complex issues that have been referred to you by your team. As part of this, you will be at the forefront of a transformational cultural shift that treats every resident as a partner in Major Works Delivery, rather than a passive recipient of it. You’ll make sure the resident voice is felt through key decisions in design options, site logistics and social value outcomes.

Alongside shaping the wider programme, you’ll also lead several high priority projects yourself, making this a rare opportunity to combine strategic influence with hands on impact across one of London’s most ambitious Housing Investment Programmes.

You’ll take responsibility for proactively prioritising, coordinating and delivering the capital investment programme. You’ll create and continually refine a strong, standardised project governance framework — covering RIBA‑aligned stage gates, change control, escalation routes, reporting, budget and quality controls, and risk management — ensuring every project meets statutory, financial and regulatory requirements. At Programme level, the Council will look to you for quality assurance, transparency and accountability. You’ll set and assure the strategy to ensure effective contract management.

As the programme budget holder, safeguarding public funds through strong financial governance and controls, ensuring every decision meets the highest standards of affordability, feasibility, sustainability, compliance and value for money for residents.

You’ll oversee supplier performance and the mobilisation of new procurements, while managing programme‑level risks and escalations — including legal processes, FOIs, complaints and Member enquiries — to ensure issues are resolved quickly and professionally.

We’d like you to drive innovation and excellence in design and construction delivery, with a special focus on finding ways to be more sustainable.

Outside of your immediate team, you’ll partner across the Council to ensure objectives are aligned. You’ll serve as a senior voice on resident-focused delivery, setting standards and fostering transparent, inclusive engagement.

Flexibility around travel will be core to this role, as you’ll travel around the borough to attend resident meetings and attend sites. At times, out of working hours.

We’re a thriving, forward-thinking place to work. This is your opportunity to leave a lasting legacy in one of London’s most vibrant communities. As this is a newly created role, you can shape it into your own.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

To excel in this senior role, you’ll bring proven leadership of complex, multi disciplinary capital programmes across all RIBA stages, with a track record of delivering high impact housing investment and regeneration projects to time, budget and quality. You combine deep practical construction knowledge — from plant and equipment to buildability and materials — with expert understanding of construction methods, sequencing and critical path management. Your ability to analyse and reprogramme construction timelines, resolve delays and assure on site quality has been central to your success.

You have substantial experience managing and developing high performing teams of technical professionals, consultants and contractors, fostering a culture of accountability, excellence and continuous improvement. You’re confident guiding others in best practice contract management across JCT and NEC forms, ensuring strong performance, robust change control, compliance and resolution of disputes. Driving and evidencing value for money is a consistent strength — whether through procurement, contractor performance management, scope control or quality assurance.

Collaboration is critical to you. You’ve worked effectively with residents, councillors, senior officers, statutory bodies, contractors and consultants to deliver shared outcomes in complex political and partnership environments. You’re skilled at leading meaningful resident engagement, embedding co design, and ensuring that diverse community needs are reflected.

Strategically, you’re able to translate housing strategy, compliance duties and emerging legislation — including the Building Safety Act, Net Zero and ESG requirements — into deliverable programmes. You bring significant experience managing large budgets and resources, forecasting accurately, aligning spending with business plans, and ensuring programmes remain feasible, sustainable and value driven.

You’re confident leading gateway reviews, applying lessons learned, and embedding structured improvement across quality, safety and resident experience. You’re equally comfortable reviewing technical designs to ensure buildability, cost effectiveness and resident suitability.

A skilled communicator and relationship builder, you influence and engage at all levels and operate with credibility in political, technical and community facing environments. You can balance multiple priorities with strong organisation, creativity and problem solving. You bring excellent digital literacy, particularly in Microsoft Office, and learn new systems quickly.

Professional development matters to you. You invest in your own growth and actively support the development of others.

You have relevant professional qualification or Chartered Membership (such as MRICS, MCIOB or APM). Equivalent professional experience also works for us.

About You (Continued)

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

All applications must apply via Starfish. No applications will be considered via any other method. Please do not apply via the SuccessFactors job portal.