To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners across the UK, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse opportunities posted on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, with recent offerings ranging from management (Victorian Society Director (CEO, Vic Soc)) to policy leads (Listing) and projects (Railways), so sign up for free alerts today and ‘stay ahead’ with the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service!
IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Reflecting the usual wide spectrum of roles represented on our ‘Jobs etc’ service, we have been advertising posts from across all the skills areas encompassed in the IHBC Areas of Competence, the model to manage and assess competence in conservation practice.
With jobs in the public sector, we can see the classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-style roles looming large as ever. These demand skills that range right across the IHBC Areas of Competence.
Such posts are well represented by the more traditional title of ‘Conservation Officer’ role, reflected in this round with posts in Cheshire West and Chester (Built Environment Officer, Conservation & Design, x 2 vacancies) and Guildford (Policy Officer, Conservation) as well as the focus on design skills sought at Colchester, with its Conservation & Design Officer post.
As the IHBC Areas of Competence model also maps to a project management framework, IHBC accreditation offers employers unique comfort when assessing candidates’ competence in such roles. So in the context of urban renewal we see the project-linked skills sets tied to IHBC accreditation highlighted in Heritage Action Zone roles at Knowsley (Project Officer) and Dunstable (Programme Manager).
As ever the national regulatory bodies seek high levels of expertise in specific areas, as represented by Historic England’s call for skills across Listing Policy and Inspector and Investigator roles.
More general skills sets suited to those seeking to develop their heritage careers – and still reflecting specific specialisms in the IHBC’s Areas of Competence – are being called for across the third, voluntary and church community sector, including The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways: Project Manager Churches Conservation Trust (Estate Officer) and the Baptist Union as well as the National Churches Trust, each seeking Support Officers.
Senior management roles in national amenity societies come up rarely, and require a no-less rare balance of skills, as the Victorian Society’s advertisement for a Director (Chief Executive) indicates.
Meanwhile private sector posts, as usual, reflect the broader spectrum of priorities that inevitably respond to, in turn, client and public priorities. These include roles reflected in HESPR member Purcell’s call for a Senior Heritage Consultant
In summary, recent posts include those below (all with different application dates, some closed and with links inactive):
- Historic England: Assistant Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas
- Historic England: Listing Policy Officer
- Cheshire West and Chester Council: Built Environment Officer – Conservation & Design (2 vacancies)
- Churches Conservation Trust: Estate Officer, South East
- Guildford Borough Council: Policy Officer – Conservation
- Knowsley Council: Heritage Action Zone Project Officer
- Baptist Union: Church Historic Buildings Support Officer
- Historic England: Architectural Investigator
- The Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways: Project Manage
- Purcell: Senior Heritage Consultant
- Victorian Society: Director
- Historic England: Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas
- Dunstable Town Council: Heritage Action Zone Programme Manager
- National Churches Trust: Church Support Officer
- Colchester Borough Council: Conservation & Design Officer
The IHBC Jobs etc.’ service reaches a uniquely diverse heritage network of practitioners and advisers from different specialist backgrounds, including architects, planners, engineers, archaeologists, historians, builders, contractors, academics and many more!
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IHBC Jobs etc offers:
- 2000 specialist and personal contact network (IHBC members and non-members) by individual email
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