W.H. Project Director // Iconic Heritage Destination

Role Summary

The role requires someone to effectively lead and coordinate the development and delivery of the Foundations vision, strategy, visitor experience and legacy, reporting to the Cultural Heritage Assets department director. This role requires coordination of an extended network of projects and stakeholders engaged in projects.

Accountabilities

Role specific tasks:

Project Oversight: Ensure the constant coordination of all elements of the Foundations project, and close coordination and alignment with D&D, including but not limited to:

• landscape design
• Cultural Landscapes project
• archaeology programme & built assets conservation programme
• cultural assets
• other assets in development by D&D such as hotels, amenity buildings, Sports Boulevard
• public art programme
• Interpretation; signage and wayfinding
• overall visitor experience; curation and programming

Vision alignment: ensure the project is developed and executed in full alignment with the Foundation's vision and goals

PoC: act as the Foundations single point of contact for the project, to ensure all internal and external communications are accurate and holistically address the project

archive / knowledge repository: ensure the development and maintenance of an archive including but not limited to historical research, archive material, design & development documents, consultant SoWs, strategy documents, reports, presentations.

General responsibilities:

• Collaborative Project Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Foundation teams, consultants, SMEs, consultants, project managers, and contractors. Ensure regular project meetings.
• Programme management: regularly update the asset development programme and ensure timely delivery and close-out of asset sub-projects. Regularly communicate programmes to relevant stakeholders.
• Team management: Recruit, train, and supervise team members for the development and delivery phase. Foster a collaborative and creative work environment. Ensure team members are regularly attending relevant training programmes. Ensure systematic and productive knowledge transfer.
• Consultant management: directly manage or ensure coordinated management of all consultant teams engaged in projects, from the Foundation or D&D
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate at a project level closely with stakeholders, including the Foundation leadership and teams such as Heritage Management, Cultural Landscapes, Research, D&D, and local authorities and cultural experts, to ensure full alignment with project objectives
• Budget management: develop and manage the annual budget to develop and manage the project
• Programming, community outreach: Engage with relevant teams and external consultants to develop the programming and community outreach during and after the development phase
• Excellence: Uphold strategic excellence by ensuring relevant team members provide detailed and timely input to all project elements including alignment with the historical and cultural context of the Foundation
• Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain quality control processes to ensure that landscape, curation and architectural design meet industry standards and project specifications.
• Reporting and Documentation: Maintain comprehensive project documentation and progress reports; provide regular project updates to department director, stakeholders, and senior management.
• Evaluation and Reporting: Monitor and evaluate the impact of cultural asset development initiatives.

Educational Qualifications

• MA in Architecture, Masterplanning, Landscape design, Urban design, Cultural Landscapes

Experience

• + 15 years of experience in the field (out of which 7 in a managerial position)
• Essential: capital projects development, cultural sector project management, cultural assets operational experience