Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for opportunities across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: Cadw, councils, practices, trusts (Canal & River to Stirling, Churches & Landmark) and more

Posted on 10/06/2023 by IHBC
Email

To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique career service!

Sign up for the Jobs etc. email alert

IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our NewsBlog updates on career opportunities posted on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’

‘Any NewsBlog Jobs etc. update ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members, their skills and our networks to secure the right profile they need, of skills, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.’

‘The current round of postings highlights the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation. These range from the Canal & River Trust: Head of Heritage & Collections and Cadw‘s Historic buildings Inspector (North Wales) to the National Churches Trust: Support Officers, one each for Scotland, Wales & North-West England.  At the same time Stirling City Heritage Trust seeks both a Grants & Education Officer (Retrofit) and a ‘Building Professional or Craftsperson’ while the Landmark Trust has advertised for a Building Maintenance Co-ordinator.

All demonstrate how a strategic posting of roles can add further value to the already cost-effective service offered by the IHBC’s Jobs etc  service’.  Clearly no other heritage and conservation career planning platform offers such a diverse yet relevant options for conservation and heritage practitioners and advisors at all levels seeking career change and progress.’

Public bodies are naturally especially well aware of the public benefit and interest embodied in the IHBC’s practice and ethical standards, as represented by our regular features on calls from Councils.  This round includes West Lindsey (Townscape Heritage Delivery Coordinator – Levelling Up Fund); Rochdale ‘s Building Manager for Rochdale Town Hall, posts at Mid Devon and Reading for Conservation Officers, Wyre Forest District Council and Surrey County Council.

The Letchworth Heritage Foundation’s role of Assistant Design Development Officer also ties together those complex threads of skills and experience for early conservation-linked career interests.

‘The diversity of all these conservation-linked roles highlights the many pressures on places and their building stock, their care and significance.  The use of the IHBC’s service also confirms wider recognition of the complex role of historic fabric and its care in securing our collective futures, from supporting communities to managing carbon.’

‘The private sector is of course responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is as ever both gratifying and heartening to see our networks’ regard for our standards from more commercially-focussed operations.  For this round that recognition is marked by Burrell Foley Fischer’s call for a Conservation Architect and HCUK Group’s call for a Heritage Consultant.

All that said, the scale of posts on our ‘Jobs etc’  service just now is clearly less dramatic than in more recent years, reflecting as it does the wider economic downturn.  However these posts still capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC’s accreditation model, the IHBC Areas of Competence, and the skills represented there.’

‘To find out more on such matters, our MATE  and related sessions support accreditation, while they also delve into the IHBC’s Competences and Conservation Cycle.  As such they help applicants’ align their skills to the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, all in line with national and international conservation practice standards.’

Current and recent posts (some now closed) on IHBC Jobs etc. include:

IHBC Jobs etc offers advertisers:

  • Special reductions for posts specifying skills in conservation (10%) and heritage (5%)
  • Additional reductions for charities (25%)
  • Even more reductions for bulk sales (just ask!)
  • Free cross-promotion in IHBC’s HESPR ‘Weekly News and tender Alert’, where relevant
  • IHBC Jobs etc.posts feature regularly on the ever popular IHBC NewsBlogs
  • Circulation data feedback as standard.

IHBC Jobs etc offers:

  • 2600+ specialist and personal contact network (IHBC members and non-members) by individual email
  • Feature page, illustration and summary on the IHBC Jobs etc website
  • IHBC website homepage link (c.300,000 page visits/month)
  • IHBC’s social networks (c.18,000 core users; c.27,000 extended links)

Advertise your jobs, work projects and more.

Remember: All IHBC members can opt in or out of the email alert service, and non-members are encouraged to sign up for free.

So you don’t miss out on your perfect job, even if you are not a member, SIGN UP for the emails alerts.

See the full list on the IHBC Jobs etc service

See more IHBC’s MATE session

See more on the IHBC Guidance Notes and our Toolbox

For full details of the IHBC Jobs etc. Service and how to advertise see Terms & Conditions etc….

This entry was posted in IHBC NewsBlog. Bookmark the permalink.