Project Coordinator

To be responsible for the strategic delivery of the construction and commercial elements of the Tomorrow's NUH Enabling Works Programme ensuring best practice, standards, tools and techniques are in place.
To be have expert specialist knowledge of Trust, Local, Regional and National Capital and Commercial Strategies and ensure that key requirements are fully embedded within the enabling projects.
To provide specialist advice and support to the Tomorrow's NUH Programme Board in relation to construction and commercial matters.
To ensure that a system of monitoring and reporting of the key milestones for the Enabling Works Programme and subsequent business cases is in place. Build strong influential relationships with staff at all levels providing the leadership link with each large capital project and NUH procurement, estates and digital teams. Build effective alliances to ensure programme priorities are understood and reflect the needs of the organisation and key stakeholders in order to have significant impact on safety, quality, performance, patient and staff experience and staff effectiveness.
Identification of procurement frameworks for each stage of the commercial and construction phase; Lead the tender process for the PSCP or Main Contractor in accordance with the agreed procurement framework ensuring the best value contract is gained; Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level, leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience.
Construction qualification.
Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at a very senior manager level including responsibility for strategic projects and programmes of change.
Experience of business case development for large or complex capital projects including proven experience in writing business cases and of the work streams including Clinical Strategy, Workforce, IT and Estates.
Considerable project management experience of delivering large capital schemes in the healthcare sector
Experience of negotiating with private companies.
Experience of working in the construction industry.
Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations and regulatory authorities.
Able to influence the direction and decisions of work streams, programme and project boards, services, contractors, the Trust Board and, as required, external stakeholders.
Ability to understand and present complex data in a simple understandable manner.
Accountable for outputs and management of a significant capital budget.
Manage own workload and use initiative to drive the project forwards.
Highly developed motivational, influencing and negotiating skills, with proven experience of success at the most senior levels of organisations and stakeholders.
Able to effectively use highly contentious information during commercial negotiations and in situations of major change.
Ability to understand and convey complex messages to a diverse audience at varying levels, including senior management, both within the Trust and in external organisations.

Critically analyse highly complex financial, activity and other datasets and able to make appropriate judgements and decisions.
Evidence of working with numerical data and ability to critically analyse, interpret and present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms.
Ability to understand complex legal contracts and trade off competing factors (e.g. risk and size of contracts) to determine the best approach to a situation
Ability to make judgements involving highly complex commercial information and using analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
Ability to understand the risk to the Trust and use judgement to know when to escalate legal and contractual issues to get advice from external commercial advisers and/or lawyers
As a lead specialist within a programme of work, be able to apply analytical and critical reasoning skills to analyse highly complex facts including financial and clinical data and situations requiring interpretation and comparison of a range of options
Focused on quality, productivity and prevention of issues
Planning and organisation skills
Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress reporting.
Develop business plans and strategies for developing commercial opportunities and exploiting opportunities with external partners.
Ability to understand and work within the relevant policy constraints and establish the way that they should be interpreted and applied.
Ability to work under significant pressure, to short deadlines and manage conflicting priorities whilst continuing to deliver high quality work.
Work independently but know when to escalate issues to senior management/Board and when to brief them to keep them appropriately updated.
Ability to understand and work within the relevant policy constraints, keeping abreast of developments and changes in policy that may impact on construction or commercial activities.
Proven record of pro-active performance management.
Personal Qualities
Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information.
Able to concentrate for prolonged periods on complex legal and commercial papers and during discussions and complex negotiations.
Able to deal with interruptions that require immediate response.
Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to work shifts/on call)
Commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

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