Director, Regional Project Accelerator - Transport

At the National Wealth Fund, our mission is to swiftly and effectively mobilise trusted sector insights and investment expertise to unlock billions in private finance for projects across the United Kingdom. Providing £27.8bn of capital and an expanded mandate, we are ready to help the market invest with confidence, continue to drive forward the Government’s growth ambitions. We are looking for skilled and results oriented individuals who are motivated to help us build the National Wealth Fund into an industry-leading institution.

The National Wealth Fund has a strategic mission to support net zero transition and drive local and regional economic growth. It’s £28bn capital is deployed through its Investment and Advisory (I&A) team, which includes sector-focused private investment and the Regional Project Accelerator (RPA) functions. The RPA function supports local government to successfully implement technically complex, innovative and essential infrastructure financing with an ambitious aim to accelerate and improve how public infrastructure is delivered.

Within the RPA function, Directors work seamlessly across advisory and lending, which has £4bn of lending capacity, including close working with the private investment sector teams in the wider I&A team to deliver commercial opportunities through our Strategic Partnerships (SPs) with Mayoral Strategic Authorities (MSAs), City Regions and other local authorities undertaking Regionally Significant Projects (RSPs). Specific sector areas of focus for local authorities are building decarbonisation and heat networks (net zero), transport and place-based infrastructure & regeneration.

This role focuses on transport with subsectors including rail, mass transit, bus, roads and airports. The Director, Transport role in Investment and Advisory requires a senior transport infrastructure specialist, bringing significant experience of delivering transport projects from inception through planning, design development, procurement, construction and completion. The Director will lead advisory and lending engagements, working with colleagues and partners to identify and develop investable propositions for the National Wealth Fund, lead due diligence, provide robust commercial challenge and help build internal capability in the transport sector.

Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days per week in the Leeds office.

17th November 2026.

• Represent the Fund - Cement the Fund’s reputation as a centre of excellence in local authority infrastructure financing.
• Act as an ambassador for NWF by participating at industry events and conferences, using these opportunities to influence the broader infrastructure agenda, and successfully showcase NWF’s mission and purpose.
• Build relationships across local authority executive community. Proactively network and engage with both internal and external senior stakeholders, to include investors, developers, banks and leading industry experts to create future commercial opportunities to enhance NWF’s reputation in the market.
• Strategically solve complex problems, draw on own sector expertise and identify solutions efficiently.
• Ensure that NWF’s clients receive expert advice enabling them to best identify and facilitate the most commercially sustainable and appropriate outcomes which effectively align to the Fund’s principles.
• Support the Managing Director/Head of the RPA team in shaping the function within the Fund, helping to attract and retain high performing talent and expertise within infrastructure finance and delivery, and establish NWF as a market leader in the provision of trusted, expert advice on infrastructure…