Summary
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 two fantastic opportunities for you to join us as our Partnerships Team Leader in the London and South East Region.
These are Full Time, Permanent posts based in London.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% 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.
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What you will be doing
The two Partnerships team leaders have joint responsibility for setting the strategic direction of the London and South East Partnerships team and ensuring those teams deliver Historic England's Corporate Plan in the Region.
The specialist Partnership team is responsible for place-shaping work across the Region, investment and grants, architectural research, and the Heritage at Risk programme. Members of the team work with our partners - which include local authorities, businesses, community groups and charities - to find creative solutions to heritage at risk and to bring about the regeneration of places through community-led heritage projects. The teams use their expertise in architectural history, project management, community/stakeholder engagement, fundraising and heritage conservation to ensure that everyone can benefit from the historic environment.
You will chair internal and external meetings, represent the team at a senior level across the Region and nationally within Historic England (HE), and lead the Region's work to deliver HE's place-based initiatives. You will ensure our investment of grants and expertise meets wider social, economic and environmental goals, as well as protecting heritage, as set out in HE's Corporate Plan.
You will develop the capabilities and manage the workloads of staff, ensuring knowledge of and compliance with agreed policies, practices and standards. You will develop a collaborative and inclusive culture within the team, encouraging innovation and creativity. You will ensure that the team engages in programmes and projects where our expertise will add most to public value, including protecting the environment and mitigating the impact of climate change. You will support the wider regional teams and other colleagues in the advancement of HE's objectives across London and the South East of England.
Who we are looking for
- A constructive and empathetic team player, able to take responsibility for successful delivery of the team's objectives and support colleagues to be the best they can be
- An open and collaborative leader, fostering and maintaining relationships with key sector partners locally and representing Historic England
- An effective advocate for the sustainable management of the historic environment, who is fluent in championing a wide range of historic places, buildings and sites, both as a cultural resource and as an asset for social and economic well-being
- A track record of working with owners, communities, local authorities, building preservation trusts, funding bodies and others to promote the repair, reuse or sympathetic management of heritage assets
- Understanding of architectural history, archaeology, heritage management, town planning, conservation architecture or another relevant specialist area
- Familiarity with the main sources of funding for heritage projects and programmes and methods of delivering benefits for the historic environment through regeneration projects, the planning process, research, funding programmes or other approaches
Please note that the role:
- requires regular travel to sites not serviced by public transport.
- may require visiting/inspecting sites which is likely to require climbing scaffolding and negotiating confined space (e.g. church roofs, etc.)
- may require occasional attendance at community meetings which are usually held at evenings or weekends.
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 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.
Provisional interview dates: 15th and 16th January 2025 - In person in our London office.
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