Overview
As Senior Capital Investment Manager, you will strategically lead and take programme-level accountability of the Westminster Major Works. The team delivers complex capital projects across Westminster’s housing stock and aims to ensure homes are safe, high quality and sustainable. You will manage construction programmes, engage residents, oversee contractors, uphold governance, and ensure value for money and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
• Lead and nurture a talented team of Capital Investment Managers and Clerks of Works, modelling innovation and excellence.
• Provide senior‑level insights to resolve complex issues and serve as a senior voice on resident‑focused delivery.
• Drive meaningful improvement for thousands of residents, embedding high‑quality technical delivery with trust, transparency and accountability.
• Set the delivery framework to ensure excellent project, quality and contract management and drive successful delivery of the Housing Asset Strategy objectives.
• Oversight of the delivery framework including RIBA‑aligned stage gates, change control, escalation routes, reporting, budget and quality controls, and risk management.
• At programme level, act as the programme budget holder and safeguard public funds through strong financial governance and controls, ensuring every decision meets the highest standards of affordability, feasibility, sustainability, compliance and value for money.
• Oversee supplier performance and the mobilisation of new procurements, while managing programme‑level risks and escalations.
• Drive innovation and excellence in design and construction delivery with a special focus on sustainability.
• Partner across the Council to ensure objectives are aligned and serve as a senior voice on resident‑focused delivery, setting standards and fostering transparent, inclusive engagement.
• Flexibility around travel to attend resident meetings and site visits, including occasional out‑of‑office hours.
Qualifications
• 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.
• Deep practical construction knowledge – from plant and equipment to buildability and materials – with expert understanding of construction methods, sequencing and critical path management.
• Substantial experience managing and developing high‑performing teams of technical professionals, consultants and contractors, fostering a culture of accountability, excellence and continuous improvement.
• Confidence guiding others in best‑practice contract management across JCT and NEC forms, ensuring strong performance, robust change control, compliance and resolution of disputes.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver value for money through procurement, contractor performance management, scope control or quality assurance.
• Skilled at leading meaningful resident engagement, embedding co‑design and ensuring diverse community needs are reflected.
• Strategic insight into translating housing strategy, compliance duties and emerging legislation – including the Building Safety Act, Net Zero and ESG requirements – into deliverable programmes.
• Experience managing large budgets and resources, forecasting accurately, aligning spending with business plans, and ensuring programmes remain feasible, sustainable and value‑driven.
• Confidence leading gateway reviews, applying lessons learned and embedding structured improvement across quality, safety and resident experience.
• Excellent digital literacy, particularly in Microsoft Office, and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Professional qualification or Chartered Membership (such as MRICS, MCIOB or APM) is desirable; equivalent professional experience is also acceptable.
Equal Opportunities and Diversity
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) background, including people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual‑heritage, indigenous to the global south, or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’ (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic). Although 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.
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