We are seeking a senior, client-facing Director to lead and scale Grant Thornton Ireland’s Healthcare and Education Infrastructure Advisory capability.

This role will initially focus on leading complex, high-value pursuits while building a sustainable and strategic pipeline over the next 18–24 months. The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping our market presence, delivering impactful programmes, and driving long-term growth in this priority area.

Key Requirements

Essential:

Senior leadership experience within Irish public sector capital programmes (healthcare and/or education)

Highly Desirable:

System-level perspective across estates, workforce, and digital health integration

We welcome candidates from consulting, public sector delivery bodies, state agencies, or equivalent infrastructure leadership roles.

Role Overview

This is a highly commercial and delivery-focused leadership role. The successful candidate will:

Originate and shape strategic opportunities
Lead key client accounts and engagements
Support Partners in converting complex pursuits into secured work

You will also be responsible for enhancing Grant Thornton’s external profile through senior stakeholder engagement, an established network, and thought leadership within healthcare and education infrastructure.

Core Responsibilities

Healthcare & Education Infrastructure Expertise

Lead delivery across healthcare capital programmes, including acute hospitals, elective care, and community/primary care infrastructure
Provide expertise in health estates strategy, capacity planning, capital prioritisation, and governance
Support education sector infrastructure programmes, including schools and further/higher education estates
Navigate and advise on the Irish public sector capital environment, including Public Spending Code, procurement, governance, and approvals
Translate policy, clinical, and operational requirements into practical, deliverable infrastructure solutions

Programme & Project Leadership

Lead complex capital programmes, portfolios, and projects within public sector environments
Drive business case development, programme governance, assurance, and delivery controls
Deliver measurable outcomes across cost, schedule, risk, and service capacity

Client Leadership & Business Development

Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across healthcare and education sectors
Build and deepen client relationships, identifying and converting follow-on opportunities
Support Partners in bids, proposals, frameworks, and strategic account development

Team Leadership & Capability Building

Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams across programme management, capital planning, and infrastructure delivery
Coach and mentor managers and consultants, fostering high-performing teams
Act as a recognised Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the firm

Ideal Experience

Healthcare System & Capital Insight

Strong understanding of how clinical models, workforce planning, digital health, and estates interact within healthcare systems
Experience delivering programmes in live healthcare environments and complex, politically sensitive contexts

Education Infrastructure

Experience supporting education capital programmes, estate strategies, and long-term investment planning
Understanding of governance structures and demographic-driven capacity planning within the education sector

We are Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed – wherever they’re located.

At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.

At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it.

A Career at GT

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.

Grow with us

At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.

Our Benefits

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Equity, diversity and inclusion
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Reward and benefits
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.

Recognition
We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.

Director – Health\Public Sector Advisory

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