Salary range: £56,436 – £76,872 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 36Contract type: PermanentClosing date: 26 July 2026
About Us
Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Dedicated and compassionate professionals bring everything to their work. Our senior manager Kate, an expert in managing housing asset data for our £50m capital programme, demonstrates how professional growth and commitment to the Decent Homes Standard translate into improved outcomes for tenants and leaseholders. She coordinates disability needs assessments, ensures external and internal stock condition surveys capture repairs and safety issues, and uses data patterns for forward planning of large‑scale renewal works.
The Role
As Senior Capital Investment Manager you will strategically lead the Westminster Major Works programme, delivering complex capital projects across our housing stock. Your responsibilities include:
- Set delivery frameworks to ensure excellent project, quality and contract management.
- Lead and nurture a team of Capital Investment Managers and Clerks of Works.
- Provide senior‑level insights to resolve complex issues and drive transformational cultural shifts that treat residents as partners.
- Prioritise, coordinate and deliver capital investment programmes, creating standardised governance frameworks aligned with RIBA stages.
- Manage programme budgets, safeguarding public funds and ensuring value for money.
- Oversee supplier performance, new procurements, risk management and escalations, including legal processes and FOIs.
- Drive innovation and sustainability in design and construction delivery.
- Partner across the Council to align objectives and champion resident‑focused delivery.
You will travel around the borough to attend resident meetings and site visits, sometimes outside regular working hours. This newly created role offers the opportunity to shape the position to your strengths.
Qualifications
To excel you will bring proven leadership of complex, multidisciplinary capital programmes across all RIBA stages, a track record of delivering high‑impact housing investment projects to time, budget and quality, and deep practical construction knowledge. You should:
- Have significant experience managing and developing high‑performing teams of technical professionals, consultants and contractors.
- Be confident guiding others in best practice contract management across JCT and NEC forms, ensuring strong performance and dispute resolution.
- Have expertise in procurement, contractor performance management, scope control and quality assurance.
- Demonstrate ability to collaborate with residents, councillors, senior officers, statutory bodies and contractors.
- Translate housing strategy, compliance duties and emerging legislation (Building Safety Act, Net Zero, ESG) into deliverable programmes.
- Have relevant professional qualification or Chartered Membership (e.g., MRICS, MCIOB, APM) or equivalent experience.
About You (Continued)
Westminster City Council supports Care Leavers and is committed to diverse shortlists. We encourage applications from the Global Majority and will use positive action provisions to appoint a candidate from a global‑majority background when equally meritorious candidates are available. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning.
What We Offer
Westminster is a vibrant community of over 200,000 residents, 50,000 businesses and a sizeable workforce. Our strategy promotes a fairer Westminster where communities are at the heart of decision‑making. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing, and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging. For further information, visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties. Staff benefit from flexible and agile working patterns and the Council is a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteeing interviews for those who meet essential criteria and offering reasonable adjustments where needed.
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