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Posted on 05/02/2021 by IHBC
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To help employers and practitioners the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities advertised on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, and recent posts include roles from project management (PM) & local conservation services to ‘archaeology and heritage’ in infrastructure and more, so sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service!

IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our recent ‘Jobs etc’ service posts again capture a familiarly wide spectrum of roles that range across all the skills areas encompassed in the IHBC Areas of Competence and the Conservation Cycle.  These areas are detailed in our MATE application support sessions and guidance, and reflect the integrated model we use to assess interdisciplinary competence in line with international conservation practice standards.

… classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled roles loom as large…

Jobs in the public sector show that the classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled roles loom as large as ever.  These demand skills from right across the IHBC Areas of Competence.  Such posts are well represented  by Cambridge’s ‘Senior Conservation Officer’ role, and comparable posts in Bromsgrove and Redditch, Chichester, Richmond Upon Thames & Wandsworth (2) and Camden.’

More nuanced variations across this balance of skills are also evident across both public and private sectors.  These include Northumberland’s Built Heritage and Design Officer posts and, with a more generic range of practice areas in the private sector, Fuller Long’s Heritage Director and LUC’s Senior Historic Environment Consultant.

As we see so regularly these days too, project-linked roles also remain important – understandably in a time of restricted finance and a pandemic-heightened focus on outcomes supported by more interventionist approaches.

… improved outcomes and cost savings that the IHBC supports…

A suite of posts across the West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust (2 posts) & Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust represent not only the operational focus for the staff sought, but – tied as these are in a single advertisement on our ‘Jobs etc.’ service – show well the improved outcomes and cost savings that the IHBC supports through encouraging pro-active partnerships.  The London Historic Buildings Trust Project Manager role also reflects these project-based priorities.

… need for skilled conservation practitioners to be work to the World Bank’s project-based models…

Though active in a more advisory capacity, the HS2 call for an ‘Archaeology and Heritage Advisor’ also operates within a major project-focused role – here as an infrastructure project – and so again indicates a need for skilled conservation practitioners to be work to the World Bank’s project-based models embedded in our accreditation processes.  In a similar vein, the Churches Conservation Trust’s Find A Use Manchester Project Manager again captures the project focus, but here operating within a different, more traditional area of national infrastructure, our ecclesiastical heritage.

Posts seeking more general roles in ecclesiastical contexts are also strong this month, perhaps again reflecting the wider investment so essential across denominations just now: the Diocese of Salisbury’s Church Buildings Officer and DAC Secretary; the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia’s Historic Churches Support Officer, and the Diocese of Chelmsford’s Historic Buildings Support Team.

… more traditional area of national infrastructure, our ecclesiastical heritage…

In summary, recent posts include those below (all with different application dates, some closed and with external links inactive):

…West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust (2 posts) & Worcestershire Building Preservation Trust (WBPT) (1 post)…

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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