Project Manager

| City of London

Location: London

Salary: £57,240 – £64,610

Full T0ime: 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 23/03/2025

Job Description

About us

The Barbican is an international arts centre in the heart of the City of London.

Across its theatres, concert halls, cinemas, galleries, business venues, public and community spaces, the Barbican showcases the most exciting artists and performers from around the world, pushing traditional artistic boundaries and helping us understand our lives in new and unexpected ways. Each year, the Centre presents hundreds of different performances, events and exhibitions that entertain and inspire millions of people, create connections, provoke debate, and reflect the world we live in.

Firmly rooted in its neighbourhood, the Barbican collaborates on projects with local communities, and supports young people and emerging talent to develop their artistic practice and access jobs in the creative industry.

Barbican Renewal

Barbican Renewal is our plan to ensure every part of the Barbican Centre’s iconic site is restored, revitalized and relevant for future generations.

The Barbican is a Grade II listed Brutalist icon, recognised as one of the UK’s architectural treasures. Since we opened our doors in 1982, we have become a world-renowned destination, offering a creative programme of unique breadth in spaces of exceptional architectural significance.

At the heart of Renewal is a commitment to celebrating the architectural vision and heritage of the Centre, with a programme of sensitive conservation and upgrade to bring the buildings back to their best, while also delivering a place that is truly inclusive, sustainable and resilient.

Over the past four decades the Barbican Centre buildings have deteriorated significantly. Through Renewal, building systems and ageing materials will be upgraded and restored, while underused areas of the site will be unlocked, releasing their full potential for public, civic and creative use.

Barbican Renewal is already underway, with essential improvements being made to systems and visitor facilities. Thanks to additional funding of £191m from the City of London Corporation, we are now able to commit to delivering the next major phase of work as part of a five-year programme to forge the Centre’s future.

Subject to planning permission, construction will begin in 2027 with this first phase complete in time for the Barbican’s 50th anniversary in 2032

About the role

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing a wide range of infrastructure upgrade and replacement  projects within the Renewal Programme. The post holder will manage these project from inception, through design, to completion, planning and organising projects to achieve the ambitions and purpose of the Centre. BAU projects will also be delivered as part of Renewal.

You will be responsible for appointing, monitoring and supervising the overall performance of consultants and contractors for major works, acting promptly in response to undue delays or negligence. You will liaise with key internal and external stakeholders and be committed to providing the highest level of service, build trusted relationships with departments across the Centre and wider City of London to ensure the smoothest possible execution of work, managing expectations and keeping disruption to the running of the Centre and its events to a minimum.

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent in a building-related discipline, such as architecture, building surveying, engineering, construction, project management or quantity surveying, or have equivalent experience. You will have excellent communication skills and a proven ability to write detailed and complex reports, and demonstrable experience of maintaining project programmes, preparing and managing contracts and administration through all stages of the project life cycle.

Barbican Benefits

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, including flexible working, annual pay progression and an annual pay review, a generous pension scheme, season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes, free access to museums and galleries, discounts on retail, healthcare and on-site cafes and restaurants. You will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme, trained Mental Health First Aiders and City of London employee networks.

How To Apply

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