To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners across the UK, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities advertised on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, while recent posts include roles from Conservation and Design (maternity cover), to Church Buildings (Salisbury) and National Listing Advisers for Historic England (HE), so sign up for free alerts 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 carrying posts from across all the skills areas encompassed in the IHBC Areas of Competence including, as detailed in MATE application support sessions, our Conservation Cycle. These represent our integrated model for assessing and managing competence in conservation practice.
… classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled roles loom as large as ever …
Jobs in the public sector show that the classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled roles loom as large as ever. These demand skills that range right across the IHBC Areas of Competence. Such posts are well represented this round by Chichester’s Senior Conservation and Design Officer (Maternity Cover).
… integrated model for assessing and managing competence in conservation practice …
At the same time 3 Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) project-focussed roles also encompass many of these skills, leaning to the more interventionist and project management aspects of our Conservation Cycle. The IHBC Areas of Competence model also encompasses project management skills frameworks, which explains why IHBC accreditation offers employers unique comfort when assessing candidates’ competence in HAZ-related roles.
These HAZ-related roles in this round are at Rochdale Development Agency (HAZ Project Officer); Breckland Council (High Streets Heritage Action Zone Project Manager) and Barrow Borough Council (High Street Heritage Action Zone Project Officer ).
…Listing Advisers in Historic England also are very significant…
Comparable conservation skills sets are also sought across private, ecclesiastical sectors, including the explicitly – and sensibly – combined titling of Church Buildings Officer and DAC Secretary at the Diocese of Salisbury, and Place Services’ Senior Built Heritage Consultant. As ever in such roles, nuances in priority skills areas are generally evident in the job titles.
… IHBC accreditation offers employers unique comfort when assessing candidates’ competence in HAZ-related roles. …
Posts as National Listing Advisers in Historic England also are very significant, not only for these critical roles themselves, but for the extent to which they will look to the ‘Evaluation’ end of the competences spectrum in the Conservation Cycle.
… nuances in priority skills areas are generally evident in the job titles. …
In summary, recent posts include those below (all with different application dates, some closed and with links inactive):
- Chichester District Council: Senior Conservation and Design Officer (Maternity Cover)
- Diocese of Salisbury: Church Buildings Officer and DAC Secretary
- Place Services: Senior Built Heritage Consultant
- Barrow Borough Council: High Street Heritage Action Zone Project Officer
- Historic England: National Listing Advisers
- Rochdale Development Agency: Heritage Action Zone Project Officer
- Breckland Council: High Streets Heritage Action Zone Project Manager
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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