Construction project management specialist expertise and skills.

Consultants must be appropriately qualified and experienced, willing to engage with applicants and grantees to guide them towards achieving best practice.

Consultants must demonstrate continuous professional development through membership of an appropriate professional body and experience of working with clients from a range of different sectors. Consultants should also have experience of working through different procurement routes to deliver construction projects and have experience of physical works to buildings, structures or sites of heritage interest.

We are seeking to recruit up to 50 individuals who can work across the UK.

Context

In order to provide maximum flexibility we intend to procure specialists, entitled Consultants, who must be available to assist in projects across the whole of the UK.

Consultants may be deployed across all of the key steps of our grant development, assessment and monitoring phases as noted below:

— Development,

— First and/or second round application,

— Delivery,

— Post completion evaluation and review.

Roles

The Consultants role on any individual case will be defined at the time of commissioning and will involve 1 or more of the following functions:

A) Mentoring Projects:

— Facilitating grantees to identify and remove blockages to the development and/or delivery of their project.

— Using specialist knowledge and experience to support grantees to help develop and deliver their project's vision.

— Supporting grantees to undertake learning and development opportunities relevant to their project's objectives.

B) Monitoring Projects:

— Undertaking risk assessment (building on HLF analysis) and developing an agreed risk monitoring plan. Providing mentoring support to reduce risk(s) in accordance with risk monitoring plan.

— Ensuring compliance with HLF requirements and reporting on progress against the project plan and project budget.

— Providing expert advice on project management arrangements, procurement and cost and programme plans to support HLF decision making.

— Evaluating projects and their impact on people, communities and heritage.

C) Providing Expert Advice:

— Supporting HLF's decision making process by commenting on aspects of a project application relevant to the Consultant's area of expertise.

D) Projects that have completed but are still in contract may require further consultancy support in line with 1 of the 3 roles above.

Construction project management specialist expertise and skills — As described in II.1.4 of this notice.

Mentoring expertise and skills.

In addition to the specialist expertise described earlier, all Consultants must demonstrate skills and experience in Mentoring, namely the ability to:

— Use observing, listening and questions to understand the applicant/grantee's situation and facilitate their thought processes.

— Facilitate those involved with the project to identify solutions and actions.

— Support the project to achieve its aims and high quality work.

— Support the project to set goals and agree methods of measuring progress towards them.

— Help the project to develop the competencies needed to take the project forward without developing a dependency on the Consultant.

— Support the project to meet deadlines.

— Support the project to adopt best practice or fitness for purpose.

— Encourage a commitment to action and the development of lasting organisational growth and change.