Summary

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Heritage Gateway Manager.

This is a full time, permanent role.

The location of this role is either York, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cambridge, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth or London, inclusive with hybrid working.

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

Historic England is responsible for the Heritage Gateway, the only place where you can search across national and local heritage information datasets to find an overview of England’s historic environment. We are ready to launch a new Heritage Gateway to replace the existing outdated website. The new website brings national and local heritage data into a single, standardised and more reliable system, it offers a redesigned, accessible search experience on the Historic England website with standardised data, improved filtering and mapping tools and more consistent results for users.

You will be responsible for maintaining data submission and agreements to the new Heritage Gateway for national and local dataset providers, and act as a communication bridge between data resource providers and Historic England’s technical teams. As Product Owner for the Heritage Gateway, you will work with Digital Engagement colleagues to support ongoing development of the website, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with stakeholder and business needs.

You will need to work collaboratively across Historic England departments, and with external partners, to ensure an effective interchange of information, guidance and advice.

Who we are looking for

• Knowledge of the historic environment

• Experience of developing and providing online content and services

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Project management experience

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 wants 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.

At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.

Provisional interview dates:

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https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/4bqfqpbb/pe-heritage-gateway-manager-jd-jun-2026.odt