# Deputy Director Capital Works, National Biosecurity Centre (NBC) Programme

**Company**: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 86,000 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

As Deputy Director, Capital Works within the NBC programme, you will act as overall client-side lead for enabling and infrastructure works to clear and prepare the site for the main construction to begin in 2027.

The post-holder will work closely with the NBC Programme Director and project sponsors, acting as the primary civil service conduit for formal governance, ensuring that investment decisions, financial payments, approvals, and change control are exercised.

Key responsibilities include:

- Acting as overall client-side lead for capital project delivery on behalf of the NBC Programme Intelligent Client Function (ICF)

- Working with the Programme Director and Project Sponsors to support the development of project delivery strategies

- Assuring compliance with planning conditions for all projects within the portfolio

- Ensuring projects remain aligned with programme constraints, focusing on value-for-money, exercising financial approvals and change control across the portfolio

- Building and maintaining respected and trusted relationships with APHA, Defra group Property, government stakeholders, and key regulators

- Leading the development of the workforce strategy and associated recruitment to build the long-term capability required by the Programme

The role requires experience of overseeing the delivery of major complex construction projects, managing design, construction, benefits realisation, and business change within complex, technical design-led programmes.

Alongside your salary of £86,000, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Benefits include:

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- An environment with flexible working options

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- construction
- governance
- stakeholder management
- workforce strategy

### Nice to have
- professional membership of a recognised accrediting body
- accreditation at senior or master practitioner level under the government project delivery profession scheme

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