Head of Masterplan

**Opportunity ID**

309

**Location**
- IWM Duxford

**Salary**
- £48,293 per annum

**Hours**
- 36 hours net per week

**Department**
- Resource Management

**Job Summary**

IWM Duxford is one of our five branches and is a museum, heritage site and working airfield, unique in its tourism and business offer drawing over 240,000 day-to-day visitors a year in addition to those attending our world-renowned air shows. IWM Duxford is also our collections hub with the northside campus of the site home to 90% of IWM’s collections.

We have created a detailed Masterplan vision to enable IWM Duxford to reach its potential as a heritage site, visitor attraction and integral part of the regional economy. This route map for significant investment and evolution will see Duxford attract and inspire a wider range of visitors in greater numbers than ever before. It will ensure visitors connect with and understand the heritage of this site and the stories of people whose lives were changed by conflict here and around the world.

**Job Summary**

You will lead the delivery of the IWM Duxford Masterplan which is transforming the visitor offer and all other aspects of the site. The masterplan will be delivered as a programme of work. You will hold the masterplan vision - the big picture - and ensure that the multiple projects within the programme are planned and managed in a coherent way to deliver the best possible outcomes for our audiences. There will be significant stakeholder engagement at senior level, both internally and externally.

Your duties will include:
**Strategic delivery**
- Lead the implementation of the IWM Duxford Masterplan and realisation of its benefits in the context of IWM’s overall Mission, Vision, Strategic Objectives and operational strategies.
- Support the Executive Leadership and Senior Management teams in the development of Duxford AvTech (a major capital development in partnership with Gonville & Caius College).
- Support the Executive Leadership and Senior Management teams in making strategic decisions and assigning priorities based on Masterplan vision, strategy and outcomes.

**Programme & Project Management**
- Adjust the implementation programme and manage change, to ensure that projects are delivered within the agreed timeframes and budgets while maximising opportunities and minimising risk to the Museum.
- Develop sound business cases and project briefs for Masterplan driven projects.
- Provide a Masterplan voice on large projects and smaller business-as-usual pieces of work through informal discussion and project teams/boards. Provide the long-term and big-picture perspective.
- Manage and motivate the Masterplan Office team and colleagues to deliver the Masterplan.
- Build and motivate cross-department Project Teams to deliver masterplan projects through business-as-usual, corporate planning projects and corporate priority projects.
- Lead distinct Masterplan Projects, for example, sustainable transport and vehicle movement; site-wide landscape strategy; airfield protection.
- Manage project budgets effectively in line with IWM financial processes. Comply with IWM procurement policies.

**Stakeholder management**
- Act as account manager, overseeing the operational and complex strategic relationships with museum/charity on-site partners. Maintaining a set of procedures to underpin the operational relationships and partnership agreements.
- With the Head of Partnerships and Strategic Relations and Corporate Communications Manager oversee and deliver strategic stakeholder engagement to support the effective delivery of the Masterplan.

**General Responsibilities**
- Identify fundraising opportunities within the masterplan, contribute to fundraising proposals and support the Development team in securing and retaining donors.
- Actively promote and implement IWM’s strategy for widening access, inclusion and diversity, ensuring this is core to the development of all new projects.
- Ensure projects are brand compliant and maximise income opportunities working closely with the Commercial and Marketing teams.
- Work actively to reduce the museum’s impact on the environment and implement IWM’s sustainability strategy, ensuring all projects consider their contribution to this.
- Follow and encourage an entrepreneurial approach, proactively seeking and actioning ideas which help IWM achieve its overall purpose, objectives, strategy and vision.
- To keep up to date with changing technology to assist more efficient and effective working.
- Commission and manage high quality architecture/design, project management and construction contracts.
- Be security conscious, ensure familiarity and co-operation with all museum security procedures.
- Prepare and present effective and appropriate reports on complex and diverse issues to the Executive Leadership Team and Senior Management Team to aid decision-making and performance monitoring.
- Ensure projects are approved at appropriate stages by the