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 Public Engagement Manager in the North East and Yorkshire.

This is a Full Time, Fixed-Term contract until November 2026.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% 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.

Salary is £39,590 pro-rata.

What you will be doing

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by championing and protecting the historic environment. Your challenge will be to find ways to effectively communicate our work and corporate priorities, helping to reach audiences through regional and local media and engagement with MPs in the North East and Yorkshire. 

You will lead and be responsible for local public engagement in Historic England’s North East and Yorkshire region.  Reporting to the Head of Regional Public Engagement, who is based in London, you will deliver Historic England’s strategic communications and engagement activity, ensuring our vision and mission are well understood and supported across the region, and building widespread support for Historic England’s mission using traditional and social media, and liaising with MPs and their offices. You will be one of six Public Engagement Managers working for Historic England (HE).

You will work closely with the Head of External Affairs who has matrix responsibility for the parliamentary work of the Public Engagement Managers. Working side by side with colleagues in the North East and Yorkshire region, as well as our national media, campaigns and content teams, you will ensure that HE’s brand continues to grow and gain positive recognition among key audiences and that we are in a two-way conversation with them about the future of their local historic environment, and how everyone can help protect it.

Who we are looking for

• Excellent knowledge of media relations or public affairs

• Excellent knowledge of what makes a strong media story

• Experience of influencing MPs / their staff or stakeholders

• Experience of successfully creating and delivering a communications, parliamentary or stakeholder plan

• Experience of influencing and collaborating with a wide range of partners

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

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 won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, 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.

At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.

Provisional interview dates: week commencing 17th November 2025

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/f4jparsh/public-engagement-manager-north-east-yorkshire.odt