BSF Professional Staff - Job Profiles & Costs

Project Director

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Plans and oversees programme from inception to delivery. Liaises with key stakeholders, manages processes and responsible for deliverables.

Qualifications & Experience

Capital programme management in BSF or PFI, or other complex procurements. Degree level education, with relevant financial or technical qualification. MBA or Prince2 desirable.

Likely Cost

£800 per day

Programme Manager

Responsibilities & reporting lines

2nd in command, controlling project teams and programme office.

Qualifications & Experience

Capital programme management in BSF or PFI, or other complex procurements. Degree level education, with relevant financial or technical qualification. MBA or Prince2 desirable.

Likely Cost

£550-650 per day

Project Manager

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Reports to programme manager, and deals with individual sites, liaising with stakeholders and professionals and ensuring that their part of programme is delivered in accodance to project plan.

Qualifications & Experience

Capital project management in BSF, PFI or large scale Design & Build. Degree level education, with relevant financial or technical qualification. Prince2 desirable.

Likely Cost

£450-£500 per day

Educational Consultants

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Develops educational vision at authority level in line with current policy and local aspirations. Supports Education directorate and individual schools Head Teachers & Governors, and liaises with communications and school improvement teams.

Qualifications & Experience

ducational consultancy, usually with experience at Deputy Headship or as Head Teacher. Experience of PFI, change management and school improvement programmes.

Likely Cost

£600-£700 per day

Special Needs Consultants

Responsibilities & reporting lines

As above, but with particular emphasis on special needs.

Qualifications & Experience

As above, but with particular emphasis on special needs.

Likely Cost

£600-£700 per day

ICT consultants

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Develops ICT vision and implementation strategy, in line with educational vision, current best practise, and in anticipation of available educational and MIS technology. Evaluates ICT solutions proposed.

Qualifications & Experience

Educational or technical background, with emphasis on delivery of large scale projects, rather than local implementation and delivery.

Likely Cost

£500-£600 per day

Quantity Surveyors

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Produces detailed cost analyses of solutions proposed and any variations thereto.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification.

Likely Cost

£400-£500 per day

Financial planner/PFI modellers

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Financial role, looking at whole life costing, proposed PFI solutions and financial risks.

Qualifications & Experience

Accountancy qualification

Likely Cost

£350-£450 per day

FM Specialists

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Scopes and evaluates FM solutions, ensuring that service level and availability of facilities meets programme objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification.

Likely Cost

£400-£500 per day

Structural surveyors

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Evauates structural condition of current buildings.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification.

Likely Cost

£400-£500 per day

Planning consultants

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Identifies planning and design issues, evaluates proposed solution in liaison with LA Planners. Identifies and quantifies any planning risks, manages planning approvals. (LA, GLA, ODPM).

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification.

Likely Cost

400-£500 per day

Communications staff

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Manages communications and engagement with LA stakeholders, and external parties such as press, pressure groups and so on. Supports engagement processes.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification. Experience of complex stakeholder environments.

Likely Cost

£250-£350- per day

Procurement specialists

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Ensures all procurement compliance issues are dealt with, provides support to Programme Team, and leads on evaluation of each stage of the bidding process.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification.

Likely Cost

£400-£500 per day

Document controllers

Responsibilities & reporting lines

Supports procurement and programme team, ensuring the Programme has an audit trail for procurement and change approvals. Utilises ICT.

Qualifications & Experience

Appropriate professional qualification. Experience of document control inlarge scale constructiojn projects.

Likely Cost

£250-£350 per day