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 Grants Manager (Repair & Maintenance).

This is a Fixed-Term Contract until the end of December 2025, Part Time working 18 hours a week.

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

This post forms part of the Grants Team, which brings together management of our Commissions, Heritage at Risk related, National Capacity Building and all other grant streams.

As the Grants Manager (Repair & Maintenance), working with line management, Regional Teams, and Public Engagement, you will make a major contribution to the successful delivery of the Historic England Corporate Plan. You will take a pro-active role in the central administration and delivery of the grants delivered by the Regional Teams. The Regional grants budget currently comprises grant-aid worth c.£11m per annum; and the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund comprises grant-aid worth £15m in 2025/26.

Who we are looking for

• Significant experience and a proven track record of grant or other major financial management

• Significant experience in prioritising and assessing grant applications and designs especially in terms of value for money and outcomes

• Experience of line management and/or effective management skills exercised in a high pressure environment

• A sound understanding of grants management systems

• Ability and willingness to constructively challenge established priorities, practices, and structures

• Ability to communicate persuasively and diplomatically with staff at all levels, and with colleagues and a diversity of external partners

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.

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

Provisional interview dates: 2nd July 2025

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/mpuoikdn/grants-manager-repair-and-maintentance-jd-2_peter-arnold.odt