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Senior Capital Investment Manager (Major Works) WCC623743
Senior Capital Investment Manager
Job Details
Salary: £56,436 – £76,872 per annum (negotiable based on experience)
Location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 36 per week
Closing Date: 26 July 2026
About Westminster City Council: Westminster’s Housing Legacy
Westminster City Council is home to exceptional stories—like that of Kate, a leader whose passion for both numbers and people drives change. Kate began her career as a college leaver in finance but, through Westminster’s support, earned professional qualifications and progressed into senior management. Today, she oversees data tracking for 21,000+ homes, ensuring compliance with the Decent Homes Standard while addressing residents’ lives behind the data.
Kate’s approach goes beyond the numbers: she proactively resolves urgent needs, coordinating adaptations for disabled residents and embedding construction renewal works with transparency and resident trust. Her expertise in capital programme management, risk mitigation, and innovative, sustainable deliverables defines the core of Westminster Housing’s mission: safe, high-quality, and sustainable homes for Londoners.
The Role: Senior Capital Investment Manager
You will lead strategically, take programme-level accountability, and inspire a culture of innovation and resident-centric delivery as the Senior Capital Investment Manager of Westminster’s Major Housing Works Programme.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Leadership & Governance
- Lead complex capital works—orchestrating budget adherence, regulatory compliance, and strategic alignment with the Housing Asset Strategy.
- Design, implement, and continually refine a standardised project governance framework, including:
- RIBA-aligned stage gates and change control processes
- Transparency measures for reporting, budgeting, quality, and risk management
- Contract escalation and dispute resolution protocols
- Uphold public funds safeguards, ensuring investments align with affordability, sustainability, compliance, and value for money principles.
Team & Stakeholder Management
- Mentor and lead a multi-disciplinary team (Capital Investment Managers, Clerks of Works, contractors), promoting excellence and continuous learning.
- Partner cross-organisationally to align objectives and act as a senior voice on resident-focused outcomes.
- Embed a resident-as-partner model, ensuring their voices shape key decisions: design logistics, social value, and engagement strategies.
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Resident & Technical Engagement
- Execute recounts, logistical requirements, and high-level out-of-hours travel to activate housing projects collaboratively.
- Apply lessons learned from live projects to improve transparency, accountability, and quality standards across future works.
Innovation & Sustainability
- Champion ESI sustainability goals through optimized designs, procurement solutions, and procurement strategies.
- Integrate emerging legislation (Building Safety Act, Net Zero targets) into programme planning.
Risk & Compliance
- Oversee FOI responses, complaints resolution, legal queries and Member enquiries at programme level, with accountability records maintained.
- Challenge and manage supplier performance, effectively mitigate risks, and collaborate with internal Director leads to resolve escalative issues.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven leadership of complex capital programmes across all RIBA stages, with a track record delivering housing regeneration projects in time, budget, and quality.
- Insight-led expertise in construction sequencing, critical path management, and contingency planning.
- Technical acumen in materials, plant, buildability, and understanding design flexibility vs. delivery methods.
- Chartered membership (MRICS, MCIOB, or APM) or equivalent professional experience; Chartered status strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to drive financial governance, manage multi-million pound budgets, and ensure forecast accuracy.
- Experience embedding end-to-end risk and compliance assurance, serving as organisational liaison for budgetary authority.
Supported by
- Strong collaboration bridges with residents, stakeholders, statutory bodied, and project teams.
- Advanced digital fluency (e.g., advanced Microsoft Office projects, learning curve愿意接入 ERP/analytics systems).
- Commitment to regional innovation in housing and community legacy work.
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Desirable
- Knowledge of London Housing Design Manual, Part L & Part F adjustments, or near-mission-led design ethos.
- Experience with procurement under NEC and JCT contracts, fostering change management, programme integration, and dispute resolution.
- Background in looking beyond code-critical compliance for shared-value projects, student outcome benchmarks + housing-led frameworks (Home Office.).
About You (Continued): Equality & Opportunities
Commitments & Inclusivity
The Council automatically invites registered Care Leavers—your first applicant if essential criteria are met—to interview.
Positive Action: Westminster is actively seeking two candidates of equal merit for appointment, prioritizing Global Majority (national definition VM), BME, racialised or PU backgrounds. You may self-include this within interview stages.
Flexibility: Travel flexibility is required to engage residents on-site.
Triple-valued outcome expected from applicants:
- Demonstrate an expressive benefit to residential communities.
- Show alignment with Westminster’s Realising Fairer Westminster Strategy.
What Westminster Offers
Workplace Standards
Westminster’s agenda is shaped by a fairer, inclusive perspective. The workforce strategy reinforces:
- Agile/work place flexibility in supported patterns.
- Disability Confidence Employment, guaranteeing interviews for applicants with disability-based need declarations.
Training & Support
Through full established ‘scheme’, L&D funding, target join counselling, or personal development endorsements at paid-up excellence.
Social Context
Resident Input Desk, built on Westminster innovation:
- Brand-folded gateway context exposures.
- Showcase consortium shift plans to the wide Grade registries.
- Confer in a workplace community with rich volunteer success.
MEET OUR Housing Assistant Pathways: Embed your inclusion journey at the Senior Capital Investment Manager central. Open application ends 26 July 2026.
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