Senior Project Executive – Owner's Representative, Urban Placemaking

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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