Framework Director; Education

Framework Director (Education)

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Education is a key sector for Galliford Try, the education sector is approximately 36% of the building division turnover. All regional businesses across the company are active within the sector ensuring national expertise and coverage.

65% of the value of our education sector order book is procured through frameworks highlighting our strong relationships within the sector and the value of repeat work both to us and our clients.

We have a national education team, headed by Claire Jackson our Education Director, who oversee our education portfolio and drive excellence and innovation.

Our education team members have a particular experience and expertise built up over decades of working within the sector.

Our national team also ensure consistency is delivered through our eleven regional offices.

Galliford Try operates across a number of Lots of the Department for Education (DfE) Construction Framework across England. The Construction Framework supports the school building programmes and is intended to meet a variety of needs supporting the delivery of building and maintenance programmes for schools, academies, free schools and sixth form colleges. Projects can be large new build, refurbishment or remodelling and include early contractor involvement, design and build or traditional projects.

• Act as a single point of contact for the DfE Regional and Programme Managers
• Support project delivery teams at key gateways and monitor our performance to ensure delivery is in line with DfE framework requirements
• Be a consistent oversight for every project from inception through to the end of the defects liability period
• Train and inform our delivery teams on local competition protocol, PI requirements and timescales for delivery

• Provide oversight, direction and governance of DfE Framework schemes
• Assist with the management of pipeline and liaise with Regional Businesses to track opportunities and agree bid/no-bid decisions
• Attend Bidders’ Days and ensure full understanding of projects and batches; inc. scope; geography; funding; market interest; commercial attractiveness; risk etc.
• Brief, support and advise Regional Businesses bid teams (internal and external)
• Support bid management (writing, reviewing and production where necessary): oversee local competition responses (with Bid Manager and Regional bidding team) and SPM process (with Regional operational delivery team)
• Assist with the selection and appointment of consultants, advisers, design teams and supply chain partners; and brief and advise them in terms of consistency of approach, required inputs and outputs, expectations of coordination etc.
• Attend school/client engagements, design team meetings and internal meetings as appropriate during bidding stages
• Strategic oversight of the transition from bidding to operational teams at SPM and construction phases.
• Framework-level oversight of the construction stage.
• Framework-level oversight of the development and delivery of a consistent approach to and delivery of Soft Landings and Delivering Excellence
• Assist with the production of project reviews, client satisfaction reports etc.
• Collect and collate KPI, progress and other data and statistics; (for reporting to GT Building Board and the DfE)
• First point of contact for DfE Project Directors. Develop and maintain relationships with DfE Project Directors, DfE Programme teams and the Technical Advisers, PMs and QSs associated with the framework
• Organise and deliver framework workshops, training workshops, briefings, lessons learnt reviews on a regular basis.
• Share best practice between bid teams and Business Units
• Provide monthly scheme‑specific summary reports relating to cost, time, performance and any key project…