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 become our Business and Listing Officer. In this role you will assist colleagues in the Listing, Development Advice and Partnerships teams in the delivery of targets and priorities.

You will co-ordinate and administer listing casework for the whole of the North of England. For the North East and Yorkshire Region you will facilitate the efficient provision of statutory and other advice and will manage individual grants ‘from cradle to grave’, including assisting with negotiations and complying with procurement and financial administration procedures. The post equally assists listing work and grants/advice work.

What you will be doing

Act as the initial point of contact for customer enquiries concerning listing, grant-aided projects and advisory work, ensuring high standards of customer service at all times. Ensuring effective communication with owners and other stakeholders.

Assist colleagues in the Listing team by acting as a first point of contact for listing application enquiries; processing listing casework from application to notification (including updating the National Heritage List for England) to nationally agreed principles of selection and procedures. Managing casework via the Unified Designation System (UDS), including validation, undertaking supporting research as required, briefing on hot or significant cases on receipt, co-ordination of initial and full assessment by Listing Advisers to agreed deadlines, notification of decisions and new listings to applicants and other stakeholders. Undertaking project work and day-to-day project support for the strategic listing programme, as agreed with the Listing Team Leader. Liaising with Information Specialists on data collection, mapping and data standards issues. Contributing to cost-estimation for Enhanced Advisory Service (EAS) cases in liaison with Listing Advisers and the Listing Team Leader, and monitoring contract progress. Liaising closely with colleagues in the National Listing Team in Policy and Evidence to ensure effective delivery of casework to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). The Senior Listing Coordinator will oversee all listing work undertaken by the post-holder.

Assist colleagues in the Partnerships Teams by assessing applications for Historic England support in accordance with Group standards of eligibility and need, and to take full responsibility for effective management of assigned grant-aid processes including post-grant monitoring.

Assist colleagues in the Development Advice Teams with the delivery of statutory and other advice, with the delivery of local capacity-building initiatives and with the negotiation and administration of grant-aid.

Assist colleagues in the Development Advice Teams with the initial appraisal, recording and assessment of statutory notifications and other requests for Historic England advice, providing information as necessary for specialist consideration and contributing to cost estimation for Planning Enhanced Advisory Service (EAS) work.

Monitor regularly and take responsibility for progress-chasing to facilitate timely delivery of all Historic England advice, including establishing and maintaining operational links with external customers (eg local authorities), and effective collaboration among colleagues within the regional office. For Listing this will also require working closely with external customers and colleagues in the North-west region.

Assist the monitoring, analysis, reporting, and quality control of all business activities, including the compilation of information and briefing to meet corporate and external requirements and the forecasting and management of operational budgets.

Assist the delivery of all Corporate Plan activities (including assisting activities such as capacity-building) as agreed with line management.

Be a positive advocate for the work of Historic England.

Undertake any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade and competencies required of the post requested by line management.

Who we are looking for

• Ability to work under pressure and use own initiative;

• Ability to work in a team environment;

• Experience of working directly with the public;

• Ability to monitor, analyse and understand data;

• Ability to effectively manage different portfolios of work

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 26% 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.

Interview dates: week commencing 08/04/2024

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/gvvjc3ce/business-and-listing-officer.odt