Director of Capital Planning and Delivery | Royal Free London Property Services Limited

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Greater London seeks a Director of Capital Planning and Delivery to lead its capital investment programme. You will oversee strategic investments, develop governance structures, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. The ideal candidate should possess strong leadership qualities, technical skills in capital planning, and the ability to manage complex projects effectively. This role offers a competitive benefits package including a pension, generous annual leave, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NEST pension - 6% employer contribution

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Learning and development opportunities

Great office location in London

Access to NHS benefits

Car leasing salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to work

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Strong leadership with emotional intelligence.
• Technical competence in capital planning and delivery.
• Ability to develop governance structures.

Responsibilities

• Set and agree prioritised capital investment programme.
• Monitor funding of all commissioned projects.
• Create financial models for each commission.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Use risk registers for project management.

Job description

We are seeking an inspirational individual with passion, resilience and technical competence to lead RFLPS capital planning function and delivery team. The post holder will be accountable for delivering an agreed capital investment programme in support of RFL overall capital development strategy and estate masterplan. The post holder will be required to develop and support appropriate governance structures which provide oversight of planning, delivery and assurance against all capital programmes along with the planning delivery and commissioning of a large number of complex and high value capital schemes.

The Director of Capital Planning and Delivery will be the RFLPS strategic lead for planning and executing commissioned investment initiatives and ensuring that they deliver value for money and benefits to our customers and stakeholders all within a robust governance framework.

With high emotional intelligence, the Director of Capital Planning and Delivery will provide strong leadership to empower and motivate the project management team ensuring investments are delivered on time and on budget to our customers and stakeholders in an increasingly complex and financially constrained environment.

Responsibilities

• Year on year, set and agree prioritised RFL Group capital investment programme.
• Monitor and control the funding of all commissioned projects against its overall capital allocations.
• On all commissions put in place and embed foundations of successful project partnership ensuring strong governance arrangements, effective transparent communication, commitment and collaboration at all times.
• Create detailed financial models and estimates for each commission, including projected out-turn costs, revenues, and cash flows.
• Provide effective oversight and stewardship to the entire RFL Group capital programme/individual projects through the lifecycle from initiation to closure.
• Be accountable for regulatory compliance of all projects and for alignment with all HTM’s/HBN’s unless derogations authorised and signed off by customers and stakeholder.
• Use risk registers as an effective capital programme and project management tool through the lifecycle of all individual projects.
• Ensure full roll out, adoption and compliance with RFLPS commission playbook and act as gatekeeper to control non-conformity.

Benefits

• NEST pension - 6% employer pension contribution (on pensionable pay).
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, and annual leave entitlement to increase to 26 days after 5 years of services and 27 days after 10 years.
• Great learning and development opportunities to support personal and professional development.
• Great office location in London.
• Access to NHS non-contractual benefits.
• Car leasing salary sacrifice scheme.
• Cycle to work.
• Season ticket loans.

For detailed job descriptions and main responsibilities, and persons specification, please see enclosed documentations.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025.