We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our National Landscape Adviser.
This is a Full Time, Permanent post.
The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive
pension scheme starting at 28.97% employer contributions,
a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing
The Technical Conservation Team in the National Specialist Services Department specialises in the care, repair and conservation of buildings, structures and landscapes. We set standards and provide specialist technical services and strategic leadership on all aspects of the care, repair, maintenance and adaptation of the historic built environment. We do this by developing and promoting evidence-based technical policy, standards and best practice and by providing specialist advice within Historic England and to the wider sector.
As a member of the Building Conservation and Designed Landscape Team, you will provide specialist technical advice and guidance on the conservation of historic designed landscapes and the settings of historic buildings and monuments to a range of audiences (including Historic England staff, other sector professionals and non?professionals) using a variety of media. Working with internal and external stakeholders and partners, you will be playing an important role in helping to deliver Historic England's response to the climate and biodiversity crisis, providing advice and guidance on landscape management and wildlife in the historic environment, including nature-based solutions as climate change adaptation measures and nature recovery.
You will help to develop and promote technical conservation guidance by commissioning and managing research projects, carrying out and organising specialist training as well as producing and disseminating technical guidance for a range of audiences.
Please note this role:
will involve travel to local offices and locations throughout England, often to sites that are inaccessible by public transport, so a current UK driving licence is highly desirable.
due to its national remit, will require attendance at meetings and site visits, and will often involve overnight stays, sometimes of more than one consecutive night.
will also involve visiting sites in exposed locations and where climbing scaffolding and negotiating uneven terrain and confined spaces (such as attics) will be necessary.
Who we are looking for
Must be a chartered member of a relevant professional institute or eligible to apply and prepared to qualify within one year.
Relevant qualifications: Landscape Institute: CMLI, FLI; Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: MCIEEM, CEcol, CEnv, FCIEEM; Chartered Institute of Horticulture: CHort.
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.