Job Description

St Werburghs City Farm is a green oasis in the heart of Bristol that connects people to their food, nature and their local community. Over the last 35 years the Farm has expanded across four sites and developed a unique range of services that welcome and engage with some of Bristol’s most disadvantaged residents. Our vision is to become a truly inspirational city-centre farm that welcomes and enables a diverse range of people to connect with animals, food, the land and each other. This will create a community that has more knowledge of where their food comes from, increased participation in their local environment, improved facilities for all to access, enhanced understanding and cohesion and better health and wellbeing.

We have a great reputation for delivering high-quality, unique services to North Bristol which results in our work exceeding targets and our contractual services running at capacity: in 2013-14 alone, we supported 3,225 service users, welcomed 15,000 people to our events/facilities and more than 40,000 visitors to the Farm site. Demand shows that there is real scope to enhance existing activities and expand services to meet emerging needs. However, our current facilities, which are unfit and ill-equipped, limit our potential for growth. In December 2014, planning permission was granted to build the Connection Centre with 3 classrooms, a training kitchen, a covered outdoor teaching space, and 3 toilets, including wheelchair accessible facilities. Once built, these facilities will enable the Farm to engage an additional 4,000 people per year through a range of targeted activities that better connect them to food, nature and each other. The total project cost including delivery of a disruption plan, landscaping, interpretation, green technologies, fit our and fixtures will be close to £500k; 80% has been secured through trust and foundation fundraising and the remaining 20% will be sought through a public fundraising campaign led by the Director.

The Capital Build Project Manager will be responsible for the day to day management and overall coordination of the construction of this capital project, ensuring that is developed in accordance with the agreed brief, appropriately monitored, delivered on time, on budget and to the required quality standards. Working alongside the design team, including architects, quantity surveyor, mechanical and electrical engineers and structural engineer, you will be responsible for trouble-shooting and taking decisions on any issues that may arise. Other responsibilities include:

• Compile and follow a robust project plan, pulling together aspects of the Connection Centre Business Plan with a communications strategy and construction programme
• Manage the development of designs with the architect, including coordinating input from the Site and Service teams, the Director and ensuring that that the building meets legislative requirements of equality, access, health and safety etc.
• Ensure that the Connection Centre Risk Register and relevant policies are in place before construction begins, and ensure that the Director and the Board of Trustees are kept appropriately informed of significant changes
• Responsible for  the final fit out once the contractor has complete the construction phase including sourcing furniture, fixtures and equipment and in-kind donations
• Coordinate service users engagement in decoration, landscaping tasks where possible, in accordance with the contractor and Site/Service Development Manager

This is a part-time role at aprox 22.5 hours per week for 15 months. Please see the job description for full details.