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 Media Manager.

This position is a Maternity cover. The role is part time, 21.6 hours per week.

You can be based out of any of our nine offices, inclusive with hybrid working.

Salary

National £39,590 - £41,300 pro-rata

GL+ £42,624 - £44,400 pro-rata

Inner London £44,073 - £46,300 pro-rata

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 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

England’s rich and widespread heritage is a source of delight and fascination to people from all over the world, and a major factor in our success as a nation. Our Communications department enables public and specialist audiences to understand, enjoy and look after it.

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England’s spectacular historic environment, from beaches and battlefields to parks and pie shops. Our media work will open up the historic environment for everyone, using public information, our unsurpassed archive, exhibitions, digital resources, cultural public programming and focused campaigns to drive engagement in our work.

As our Media Manager, you will manage Historic England’s reputation in the media by handling sensitive issues and generating coverage that drives up interest and engagement in the work of Historic England among opinion-formers and the interested public.

Please note, the role may require travel within England and overtime may be required on occasion.

Who we are looking for

• Proven experience of delivering media coverage to deliver an organisation’s aims

• Knowledge of the media

• Experience of handling complex media enquiries and advising on reputation risk

• Experience of cross team collaboration and partnership working

• Experience of devising and co-ordinating multi-channel communications plans

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 won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, 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.

Provisional interview dates: week commencing 13th October 2025.

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/d4hnx2vs/media-manager.odt