Senior Project Executive – Owner's Representative, Urban Placemaking
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Job Description
Owner-side project executive shaping delivery, procurement, governance and handover for large urban mixed-use developments. Building Rutherford’s pipeline of future leadership candidates.
Responsibilities:
- Translate the owner's objectives into coordinated delivery across designers, contractors, funders, operators and public authorities
- Protect the owner's position and the quality of the owner's decisions without becoming the builder
- Develop delivery strategy and procurement options
- Recommend professional teams and construction organisations
- Establish the integrated baseline for scope, budget, programme, risk register and contingency
- Govern changes and prepare decision papers for the owner, including reasons for and against
- Monitor progress, cost and quality against the baseline and escalate deviations
- Coordinate owner, operator and tenant requirements for phased handover and occupation
- Work with legal, commercial, engineering, safety and commissioning specialists
- Lead and develop an owner-side project team
- Provide analysis, recommendations, reporting and escalation within the mandate
- Make approvals within delegated authority where expressly appointed
- Participate in shared decisions with the owner's board, committee or development leadership
- Register professional interest for consideration in future owner's representative leadership opportunities
Requirements:
- Established owner's representatives, senior project executives and project directors who already lead owner-side delivery, or credible aspirants preparing for that responsibility
- Demonstrated capability, or assessed potential, to lead owner-side delivery in an appropriate mandate
- Evidence of owner-side responsibility, including projects, uses, scale, procurement method, appointing party and authorised decisions
- Ability to compare delivery and procurement options and determine what the owner should retain
- Experience governing change and keeping cost, programme and quality visible to decision-makers
- Experience with phased handover, operator readiness and occupation
- Ability to work with development leadership, designers and contractors without taking over their roles
- Understanding of accountability, joint decisions and influenced outcomes
- No fixed minimum project value or minimum length of experience applies to this Evergreen profile
- Professional designations are recorded and considered alongside demonstrated capability
- Current résumé required for registration
- Three short written questions about owner-side delivery decisions
- Must not include confidential information in registration responses
Benefits:
- Membership in the Rutherford Talent Guild™ for accepted members
- Longer-term career relationship with Rutherford
- Curator-led Career Thesis development for accepted members
- Selective introductions to organisations for specific roles, where there is a credible fit and under applicable arrangements
- Access to private talent pipelines and Rutherford & Company retained searches
- Opportunity to register interest in fractional or independent consulting work through the Rutherford Talent Clearinghouse™
- RutherfordINTEL Assessment interpreted by a curator alongside experience, achievements and objectives
- Professional development priorities identified through the curation process

















