Accountable to: Director of Finance and Resources
Location: 21 Albemarle Street, London
Contract type: Fixed Term contract, 18 months, full time (35 hours per week)
Salary: £55k per annum
About the role
The Royal Institution (Ri) is a charity with a mission to give everyone equitable access to engage with science. Our historic Grade I listed building is a hub for science programmes, lectures, and public talks. It also serves as a space for venue hire and hosts tenants who help us sustain our mission. We are now embarking on Project FootpRint, a transformative retrofitting initiative to reduce the building’s carbon footprint while maintaining its unique heritage.
We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Facilities Project Manager to lead this exciting project and ensure it is delivered to the highest standards. The role will also involve managing smaller facilities projects, supporting our internal facilities team, and overseeing key internal governance processes.
The Facilities Project Manager will lead the delivery of Project FootpRint, ensuring the successful retrofitting of our Grade I listed building to enhance energy efficiency and reduce its carbon footprint. This role is critical in coordinating the works with the ongoing activities at the Ri, including science programs, talks, venue hires, and tenant operations. Additionally, the Project Manager will manage internal governance processes, smaller facilities projects, and provide expert advice and support to the Ri’s facilities management team.
About you
Do you have:
- Excellent project management experience with proven experience in managing complex construction or retrofit projects, ideally within listed or heritage building and/or government funded?
- Experience working in environments with multiple internal stakeholders, including public programs, events, or tenant management?
- Demonstrable understanding of sustainability and energy efficiency principles in building retrofits?
- Strong background in hands-on facilities management, with the ability to support and advise internal teams on day to day operations, best practices and operational challenges?
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience managing internal and external stakeholders?
- Excellent stakeholder management, budgeting and financial acumen, with experience managing large-scale project budgets?
If so, we'd love to hear from you
Interested?
To apply, please download a full job description and person specification, and send your CV and a supporting statement (of no more than 800 words) explaining why you want the job and how you meet the requirements in the person specification, to recruitment@ri.ac.uk no later than 10.00am on Monday 16 September.
We may close the application process early if we receive a strong field of applicants so we would encourage you to apply as soon as you can.
Interviews are scheduled for Thursday 19 September and w/c 23 September.
Please complete and return the recruitment monitoring form along with your application. The Ri is committed to equality of opportunity at all stages of the recruitment process. The information supplied in this form will be treated in strict confidence and will only be seen by Human Resources. It will not form part of the selection process. You may choose not to disclose some, or all the information requested in the form, and this will not affect your application in any way.