Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority
Non Executive Directors
The Palace of Westminster is one of the most iconic and significant buildings in the world. It is home to one of the busiest parliaments, with more than a million people, including 100,000 school children, passing through its doors each year. The Palace is a Grade 1 listed building, and with Westminster Abbey and St Margaret’s Church, forms part of the UNESCO Westminster World Heritage Site.
While there is a regular programme of maintenance to keep the building safe, there has been no overall renovation of the building since the partial rebuilding in 1945–50 and some of the services are even older. The building’s essential services (such as heating, cooling, water, sewage, electricity, cabling) have been kept functioning, but this is being done with increasing difficulty and growing risks. The Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Programme has been established to tackle the significant work that needs to be carried out to protect and preserve the heritage of the Palace of Westminster and ensure it can continue to serve as home to the UK Parliament in the 21st century. This is the biggest and most complex renovation of a heritage building ever undertaken in the UK.
The R&R Delivery Authority is a Companies Act company, limited by guarantee, which was established under the Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019, as amended (the Act). We are responsible for designing and delivering the restoration of the Palace of Westminster and related works on behalf of the Houses of Parliament, including associated activities.
We are seeking two Non Executive Directors (NED) to join the Board, working closely with the Chair and other Board members to help steer the organisation to deliver its priorities and strategic objectives at this critical juncture of the R&R Programme.
One of the new NEDs will be appointed as Chair of the Risk, Audit and Assurance Committee (the RAAC) and must bring financial and accounting expertise, particularly an understanding of public sector finance.
One of the new NEDs will have experience of developing and managing a complex and diverse real estate portfolio preferably including experience in the commercial sector.
Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to the Delivery Authority on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference OZZYD. Alternatively email Belinda.beck@saxbam.com. Applications should be received by 12 noon on Friday 21st March.
The Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Programme has been established to tackle the significant work that needs to be carried out to protect and preserve the heritage of the Palace of Westminster and ensure it can continue to serve as home to the UK Parliament in the 21st century.