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 Listing Team Leader, to support the Regional Director and Head of Region in the delivery of corporate priorities relating to designation in the Region, and to support the national post of Head of Listing in designation decisions.

As our Listing Team Leader, you will line manage and lead an effective Listing team in the Region. Supporting team members in managing national and regional priorities relating to casework, projects and programmes and to sustain Historic England’s status and reputation as an expert organisation.

What you will be doing

Lead, motivate and manage the Listing team and promote continuous improvement, to maintain and develop team members.

Promote and advocate for changes in working practices and priorities where needed to ensure successful cross-team working in the Region to address corporate and regional priorities.

Be an effective member of the Regional Management team.

Manage the casework, project and programme priorities for the team to deliver timely, expert and consistently high standards for assessments, consultations and recommendations.

Work closely with the Head of Listing, to ensure quality assurance of listing recommendations and to make resources available to work on national listing and investigation projects which reflect agreed corporate priorities.

Be an effective advocate for the Enhanced Advisory Service.

Work with colleagues across Groups to ensure alignment of national and local priorities.

Identify, understand and assess key designation issues and ensure risks are identified and mitigated, and external customer interests are managed, advising the Regional Management team accordingly.

Lead on sensitive casework where necessary.

Ensure the team delivers to performance, financial and other targets within agreed timetables and budgets    

Maintain and develop the experience, expertise, technical and methodological skills required for assessment and designation of the historic environment;

Contribute to the development of Historic England’s capacity building, training and guidance programmes as necessary

Act as an effective advocate for Historic England and in particular its Listing functions through various media outside the organisation.

As a manager, ensure our legal obligations and the expectations set out in our policies are met, including health & safety, equality & diversity, finance, procurement, information security and managing people.

Who we are looking for

• Lead, motivate and manage the Listing team and promote continuous improvement, to maintain and develop team members.

• Promote and advocate for changes in working practices and priorities where needed to ensure successful cross-team working in the Region to address corporate and regional priorities.

• Be an effective member of the Regional Management team.

• Identify, understand and assess key designation issues and ensure risks are identified and mitigated, and external customer interests are managed, advising the Regional Management team accordingly.

• Work with colleagues across Groups to ensure alignment of national and local priorities.

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% 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: 02/05/2024 in Manchester

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/o0ld5nex/listing-team-leader-north.odt