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 Head of Major Projects (Digital).

This post is a Fixed-Term contract until September 2025

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. 

Salary

National: £52,765 pro-rata

Greater London+: £54,390 pro-rata

Inner London: £57,714 pro-rata

What you will be doing

As our Head of Major Projects (Digital), you will support the Executive Team, IMT Director, and Head of Programmes in the delivery of Historic England’s Digital Strategy, which will close in March 2025, transitioning either into evaluation and business as usual, or into a new programme of work during 2025/26.

You will lead the successful and timely delivery of major projects and programmes, to budget and within the Public Value Framework. These include but are not limited to the replacement of Historic England’s planning application casework and grants management systems, and leadership of the engagement, and skills and data strands. You will build productive relationships and ensure that internal and external stakeholders are kept up to date and engaged with our projects.

This fast-paced role sits in the Programmes Department, which has responsibility for managing major programmes and projects of organisationally significant areas of work. Programmes sits in the Business Improvement Group – a dynamic team that ensures HE is an adaptable, fundable and sustainable organisation that delivers for heritage by facilitating joined up working, inspiring, challenging and equipping people, nurturing innovation and productivity, managing grant spend and growing income.

Who we are looking for

• Ability to motivate and lead project teams where line management of team members is dispersed

• Proven ability to coordinate diverse teams creating a culture of mutual respect with the ability to work together to achieve a common vision

• Experience delivering digital and data projects and programmes

• Experience of programme closure, including workforce planning, evaluation, communications, and transition to business as usual

• Governance - ability to approach leadership of a portfolio of projects and programmes that have their own discreet governance arrangements.

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: 25th / 26th July 2024 - Virtual via MS Teams

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/dp3dzequ/head-of-major-projects-digital.odt