Serious about your career? Sign up to IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for diverse opportunities across roles and disciplines – spotlighting building and estate care for #IHBCReading2024

Posted on 01/03/2024 by IHBC
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To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about 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 for members and employers.

… posts have….one key consideration in common: they target IHBC members and networks…

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

… posts typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles…

Our ‘Jobs etc. posts typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, just like the IHBC, but all have one key consideration in common: they target IHBC members and networks for their unique, interdisciplinary skills sets and profiles in their search for the person with the perfect ‘fit,’ of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related disciplines and roles.’

‘The current round of postings continues to spotlight the expanding engagement with our services and standards by employers across facilities, building, area and estate care and management and the conservation-linked roles and skills that we’ll be interrogating especially closely at our forthcoming 2024 Reading school programme across 12-15 June: #IHBCReading2024.

‘We can start this review with public-service and public-facing employers with building, area and estate care responsibilities that can entail specialist heritage skills sets, notably Head of Parks and Estates at Wallingford Town Council; the Assistant Curator (Historic Buildings) at Historic Royal Palaces and the Cathedral and Major Churches Officer at The Church of England & National Church Institutions, as well as for Diocese of Oxford a Senior Church Buildings Officer, the Heritage Officer for Bannau Brycheiniog/ Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and the Facilities Manager at The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.

‘Also encompassed within our linked-skills model is the practical, management-led, building- and area-focussed skills sets that lie at the heart of the IHBC’s holistic conservation of buildings and areas.  Here one national player clearly leads the way in this round, as Historic England seeks a Head of Heritage Protection, as well as a Heritage at Risk Architect/Surveyor and a Heritage At Risk Project Officer.

‘More local advisory and regulatory public service roles also tie structurally into the IHBC’s conservation skills and competence model, not least given our historic links to local government conservation.   Though the IHBC now represents a much wider constituency of members than conservation officers, those principles are vibrant and resonant, and evident especially in the ongoing prominence across our Jobs etc. service of conservation-related posts in local government.  For this round these include calls from Maidstone (Principal Conservation Officer), Waverley (Conservation Officer) and Wakefield (Heritage Development Manager).

Clearly, even at quieter and economically tighter times such as these, local government continues to look to IHBC members to fill their critical posts.   This is to be expected of course, given our shared understanding of public interest and duties.’

‘At the same time, the consultation and community engagement that looks across to our local government roots is also evident in posts linked to the management and care of church estates and places of worship.  For example the National Churches Trust seeks Interim Cherish Project Manager and The Diocese of Leicester a Historic Churches Support Officer.

Informed advocacy is also a critical thread in our members’ skills sets, and in that context it is a special privilege to carry SAVE Britain’s Heritage call for a Senior Conservation Officer!

‘Of course the private sector is responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources.  So it is also gratifying and heartening to see the high regard for our standards across so many of the best of the more commercially-focussed operations. In confirmation, this round we see Iceni Projects calling for Consultant/ Graduate Consultant roles in Built Heritage and Townscape; Alastair Coey Architects in Norther Ireland seeking a Conservation Architect; Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture Ltd seeking an Historic Building Consultant and an Experienced Built Heritage Consultant; HCUK Group an Archaeological Consultant; Fuller Long – HEA: Senior Heritage Consultant; Smith Jenkins a Heritage & Townscape Consultant / Assistant Consultant; Hutton + Rostron: Construction Defect Surveyor and Remedial Design Consultant and a Specialist Building Surveyor 08/02/2024.

‘Altogether these posts show how wide-ranging is the appreciation of our services.  Estate-holding bodies with heritage interests, just as much as local authorities and national advisory and regulatory bodies, as well as advocacy and amenity bodies, can recognise the great value – and, for directors and trustees, the comfort – of accessing dedicated IHBC-modelled conservation skills through our Jobs Etc. service.

If the scale of posts on our ‘Jobs etc’  service just now is less dramatic than in more recent years – reflecting as it does wider economic pressures – they diversity still capture well 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:

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