Assistant Development Manager - Fixed term contract
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Business and financial project management professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£56,500
(£28.97 per hour)
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Description
Advert Close date: 18th March 2026
Assistant Development Manager 9 month fixed term contract role at The Crown Estate
Purpose of Role
The Crown Estate is seeking a proactive and collaborative Assistant Development Manager to support the Development Director and Senior Development Manager in delivering high-value reinvigoration projects. This role contributes to the achievement of financial, social, and environmental targets aligned with the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) strategy and The Crown Estate’s Value Creation Framework. You will manage multiple workstreams across the development pipeline, ensuring cost, value, and programme targets are met.
Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities
Assistant Development Manager 9 month fixed term contract role at The Crown Estate
Purpose of Role
The Crown Estate is seeking a proactive and collaborative Assistant Development Manager to support the Development Director and Senior Development Manager in delivering high-value reinvigoration projects. This role contributes to the achievement of financial, social, and environmental targets aligned with the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) strategy and The Crown Estate’s Value Creation Framework. You will manage multiple workstreams across the development pipeline, ensuring cost, value, and programme targets are met.
Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities
- Support the delivery of 2 development projects, progressing them through gateway processes and programme milestones.
- Contribute to quarterly business plan targets and maximise value across financial, social, and environmental dimensions.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams across commercial, infrastructure, energy, financial modelling, and stakeholder engagement.
- Monitor budgets and ensure cost and value targets are achieved.
- Experience in development appraisals and feasibility analysis to identify viable opportunities.
- Strong communication skills, including governance reporting and documentation.
- Experience across mixed-use assets, particularly residential and commercial projects (desirable).
- Familiarity with delivering projects through RIBA stages within defined budgets and timelines.
- Relevant qualification in Real Estate, Surveying, Engineering, or Architecture.
- Understanding of procurement and supply chain processes in large-scale development.
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.