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 a Personal Assistant to the Regional Director - Midlands.

This is a Full Time, Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2026.

The location of this role is Birmingham where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in our office and from home.

Salary

£23,588 per annum pro-rata

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.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

What you will be doing

In this role you will provide administrative and diary support to the Regional Director and Head of Region, and further administrative support to the Midlands team.

You will provide proactive diary management and forward planning for the Director and Head of the Midlands region, ensuring that regular and ad hoc internal and external meetings and site visits are scheduled and organised effectively and efficiently, including site visit risk assessments.

As a Personal Assistant to the Regional Director - Midlands you will be responsible for Inbox and correspondence management where required, including identifying and communicating urgent actions, directing correspondence to the appropriate person or place and tracking actions arising from correspondence. 

What we are looking for

• Proven administrative and office organisation experience

• A high standard of accuracy and attention to detail

• Excellent IT skills, including advanced knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 365), setting up/managing physical and virtual meetings (Teams or similar)

• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people

• Proven ability to work effectively under pressure, juggle conflicting demands and manage multiple tasks

• Experience of maintaining online office and administrative systems, and keeping track of tasks and incoming/outgoing information

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.

Provisional interview dates: w/c 7th April 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description: https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/yvpgjpgu/zw-personal-assistant-to-regional-director-midlands-mar-2025.odt