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 Portfolio Development and Benefits Manager.

This is a Full Time, Permanent post.

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: £38,067

Cambridge: £40,984

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

As a key member of the Portfolio Development & Benefits Team, the post-holder will be responsible for developing and driving the portfolio definition cycle at Historic England, from initial triage of new business or other opportunities to benefits identification, management, and realisation, ensuring a consistent and fit-for-purpose approach to benefits management.

You will support Historic England as it progresses towards compliance with the Government Functional Standard GovS002 Project Delivery and will play a fundamental role in the creation of a organisation-wide delivery pipeline to underpin our Corporate Plan.

You will develop a suite of standards and processes, and provide advice and guidance, to embed best practice for benefits management within the portfolio. You will be responsible for reporting on portfolio-level benefits realisation, and for managing mid- and post-implementation reviews to compare benefits realised to benefits forecast. You will intervene early where targets are off track to ensure steps are taken to minimise risk to the organisation.

The role sits within Business Improvement Group, a dynamic part of Historic England committed to enabling innovative delivery, developing HE as an organisation and focusing its performance.

Who we are looking for

• Demonstrable understanding of benefits management and realisation standards and processes in a portfolio, programme and project environment

• Experience of leading or contributing to business cases, especially Treasury Green Book business cases, ideally with a Better Business Cases qualification

• Experience in portfolio or programme management

• Ability to prioritise and switch between multiple projects and work to challenging deadlines

• Experience of problem solving and troubleshooting

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 dat: 20 March 2025

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/0yvl54sp/portfolio-development-benefits-manager-jd-approved.docx