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 a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Unpath’d Waters Evaluation Officer.

This post is a 3 months Fixed-Term contract.

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. 

Are you a creative and critical thinker looking to diversify your CV for your next career move? Are you curious about evaluation as a way of learning and improving the way we work? Can you work constructively across multiple high performing teams to collect information and marshal it into a coherent narrative? Do you want to know more about our public value framework and how to use it?

This is a rare opportunity for a novice or early career evaluation researcher to work as part of our Evaluation Team on assessing the success of the three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Unpath’d Waters project against our public value framework.

What you will be doing

Using your critical thinking, communication and relationship skills, you will work with the Analytics Director to deliver a structured and objective appraisal of this high profile UK‑wide project. Your focus will be on collecting and analysing information and drafting an evaluation report under supervision with a view to joint authorship of the final report to AHRC.

Some travel to Historic England’s partners’ offices and site visits may be required to support the implementation of evaluation activities such as focus groups.

Who we are looking for

• At least degree-level or equivalent qualification, ideally in one of the social sciences

• A strong track record of organising, prioritising and delivering outputs to a tight timetable

• Demonstrable project management skills and experience

• Good IT skills, including the ability to use software for basic data analysis and communication

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 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.

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. 

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: week commencing 23rd September 2024

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/4c0haawj/unpath-d-waters-evaluation-officer.odt