Executive Director, Campus Major Capital Projects
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 15+ years of progressively responsible experience leading large and complex capital programs and projects, including direct leadership and individual projects with total project costs greater than $70
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Planning, Business Administration, Real Estate Development, Urban Design, City Planning, Landscape Architecture, or a related f
- Demonstrated experience leading managers, senior project leaders, and multidisciplinary internal and external teams, including establishing governance, accountability, delegated authority, performance
- Expert knowledge of capital planning and project delivery, including planning, design, procurement, contracting, construction, commissioning, project controls, budgeting, scheduling, risk management,
- Advanced financial and business acumen with demonstrated experience managing large capital portfolios, budgets, forecasts, contingencies, financial risks, and long-range capital investment plans.
- Demonstrated experience establishing and maintaining program or portfolio governance, executive reporting, project performance standards, escalation pathways, and decision-making processes.
- Executive and operational leadership experience, including strategic planning, workforce and resource planning, organizational development, performance management, and continuous improvement.
- Advanced executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and consensus-building skills, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders and communicate complex program and project mat
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems, evaluate alternatives, establish priorities, and make or recommend decisions that balance scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, operational requiremen
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Planning, Business Administration, Real Estate Development, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex, multi-phased construction projects in an occupied academic medical center, university, governmental, institutional, or comparable complex campus environment
- Current professional licensure as an Architect or Professional Engineer.
- Advanced knowledge of UCSF, University of California, or a comparable complex university, academic, research, institutional, or multi-campus organization, including its mission, governance, strategic
- Experience with Integrated Project Delivery, ICDC/Big Room environments, Lean design and construction practices, Progressive Design-Build or other collaborative/alternative project delivery models, an
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing organizational improvement, standardized work, or Lean/continuous-improvement systems within a complex capital project delivery organization.
- Relevant professional certification demonstrating advanced expertise in capital project, program, construction, or collaborative/Lean delivery, such as: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certifie
- Certification or formal training in Lean principles, collaborative project delivery, or continuous improvement.
Full description
Under the general direction of the Associate Vice Chancellor - Campus Design & Construction, the Executive Director, Campus Major Capital Projects provides executive and operational leadership for UCSF's Major Capital Projects Program, a multi-year capital program anticipated to represent approximately $2 billion to $4 billion or more over a 10-year period and consisting of multiple concurrent Major Projects with individual Total Project Costs greater than $70 million.
The Executive Director has overall accountability for executing Major Capital Program strategy, governance, performance, financial stewardship, organizational capability, resource planning, project delivery standards, and executive communications. The position contributes to portfolio priorities, governance and performance expectations; evaluates organizational and delivery capacity; deploys resources based on portfolio requirements; and provides executive oversight of Directors, Associate Directors, project leaders, and multidisciplinary internal and external resources responsible for delivery of the Major Capital portfolio.
The Executive Director leads through a flexible organizational structure that may change based on the size, complexity, risk, delivery model, and composition of the Major Capital portfolio. The position establishes appropriate accountability, delegated authority, project controls, escalation pathways, and leadership capacity to support successful delivery of the program and its constituent projects.
In addition to program-level executive responsibility, the Executive Director selectively serves as the senior Owner's Representative and working project executive for Major Projects based on organizational need, project complexity, institutional significance, risk, delivery model, or other portfolio requirements. For directly assigned projects, the position maintains executive accountability for project strategy, scope, budget, schedule, risk, integrated team leadership, stakeholder engagement, negotiations, change management, and successful delivery.
As a senior member of the Campus Design & Construction leadership team, the Executive Director partners with the Associate Vice Chancellor in department-wide strategy, operations, workforce and workload planning, financial and organizational performance, policy deployment, standardized project delivery practices, continuous improvement, customer and stakeholder engagement, and coordination across UCSF Real Estate and the University. The Executive Director represents the Associate Vice Chancellor and Campus Design & Construction in institutional and operational matters within delegated authority and provides senior leadership continuity as required.
Department Overview
The organization of UCSF Real Estate is focused on the development, planning, delivery, and management of physical space for UCSF. Key responsibilities include a unified approach to oversee the active UCSF growth planned on a multi-site campus and to manage the complex metropolitan environments affecting capitalassets and projects and efforts to align municipal challenges with maximum effectiveness in support of the UCSF mission.