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.

Do you care about the rural environment? Do you want to make a difference for rural heritage? We are looking for a Heritage Service Manager to join the team.

This role is 0.5 FTE fixed term contract to the end March 2025 with potential for extension.

This role can be based at the Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle or York offices. The national hybrid remote team will be geographically spread across our regional offices (as above plus London). Members of the team will be expected to work nationally depending on expertise and case volumes.

This is an exciting time to join Historic England as we set up the newly-formed Countryside Stewardship Heritage Service to support applications to and monitor delivery of projects from Defra’s Higher Tier Capital Grants and PA2 Feasibility Study funding streams for rural heritage in stewardship.

This is a great opportunity to support owners of rural heritage in stewardship deliver environmental gains for their communities, heritage and the rural environment.

What you will be doing

The Heritage Service Manager (Countryside Stewardship) will provide leadership to the newly-formed Countryside Stewardship Heritage Service. Working alongside the Heritage Technical Manager (Countryside Stewardship), you will be responsible for:

·       Leading and managing a cross-disciplinary team of Heritage Service Officers (Countryside Stewardship).

·       Developing the team to deliver ambitious casework targets.

·       Developing the capabilities and managing the workloads of the team.

·       Line managing 4 FTE of Heritage Service Officers (Countryside Stewardship)

·       Lead the monitoring of the delivery of the agreements.

·       Reporting on the service’s delivery to the Board, Rural Payments Agency and our funder, Defra.

·       Representing the team internally and externally.

·       Taking delegated responsibility and delivering the challenging targets and timescale.

·       Allocate and prioritise casework across the team to deliver against client and funder needs.

National salary range: £36,603 pro-rata

Greater London + salary range: £39,408 pro-rata

 What we are looking for

• Considerable experience of leading a team delivering advice to multiple clients in a challenging timescale.

• Constructive and creative problem-solving skills. Ability to deal with pressure and challenge.

• Effective negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills.

• An understanding of the policy areas covered by the Countryside Stewardship programme

• An open-minded approach and interest in engaging a wider range of perspectives to broaden understanding.

• Substantial experience of project management.

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.

We are open to discussing secondment options for this vacancy.

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 county 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 date: 27th March 2024 (Essential)

To view the full job description, please visit:

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/2n4ljbgq/heritage-service-manager-countryside-stewardship-jd-feb-2024.odt