Director of Capital Projects

New science facility (design in progress; $50M budget)

New performing arts facility

Miscellaneous capital projects to support school needs

Master planning for both the Hill and River Campus and execution of recommendations

Serve as the steward for the institution’s goals around program, priorities, standards, and expectation setting.

Oversee day-to-day project coordination on behalf of the institution.

Monitor project schedule, budget, quality, procurement, and construction progress.

Coordinate regularly with the Head of School, Facilities Committee of the Board of Trustees, Director of Facilities, Development team, owner’s representative, design teams, consultants, and contractors.

Prepare and manage regular project updates for leadership and relevant committees, including presentations to the Facilities and Finance Committees.

Participate, often expected to lead, in project meetings, site walks, committee updates, and leadership briefings as needed.

Work with the owner’s representative and consultants to identify and resolve project issues promptly.

Track key project milestones, open issues, approvals, risks, and required decisions.

Work alongside the project team to review project schedules, change orders, payment applications, meeting minutes, and other project documentation associated and required for capital projects.

Assist in managing overall exposure and project risks, including cost escalation, delays, scope changes, permitting issues, logistics, and campus or operational impacts.

Gather relevant information to help ensure that decisions are made in a timely manner and that responsibilities are clearly assigned, understanding when to escalate to senior institutional leadership.

Support communication between construction professionals and non-technical stakeholders, focusing on instruction critical requirements such as cleanliness, security, disruption, and other.

Serve as the primary facility transition liaison for the school teams to help ensure the project is delivered in a manner that minimizes disruption to school operations.

Maintain clear records of decisions, approvals, commitments, and action items.

Understand stakeholder needs and priorities, and lead RFP and evaluation processes to select architects, engineers, and other consultants.

Plan the process for permitting, community board engagement, approvals, and zoning requirements.

Work with the owner’s representative to select design team partners, and develop and manage bid processes to select the Construction Manager and relevant subcontractors.

Continually support value engineering and cost reduction measures throughout preconstruction and design.

Prior experience managing or overseeing sizeable capital projects, preferably projects of similar scale and complexity.

Experience with capital projects of approximately $50 million or larger strongly preferred, both new construction and renovation.

Strong understanding of construction project management, project accounting, budgeting, scheduling, procurement, change orders, project closeout, and other workstreams required for capital projects.

Ability to coordinate effectively with owner’s representatives, architects, engineers, consultants, general contractors, and institutional leadership.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to prepare clear, concise project updates for senior leadership and board-level stakeholders.

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Ability to identify risks early and help drive solutions.

Experience working in a school, nonprofit, institutional, cultural, campus, or mission-driven environment preferred.

Ability to balance capital project priorities with the operational needs of an active institution.