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 Stakeholder Engagement Adviser in the South West region.

National salary: £38,067 per annum

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.

This post is a fixed-term contract until 4th July 2025.

You will be responsible for the building and maintaining of key stakeholder relationships at local level which increase the public value of Historic England’s work. Through influence and advocacy, you will help convince local decision-makers of the value of the historic environment and its potential to deliver benefits for the community.  The role supports local communities to act to shape the development of historic places and to save and re-use heritage at risk. Key audiences are local authorities, developers, the local heritage sector and community groups.

What you will be doing

Working with the Regional Director and Head of Region, you will identify and manage relationships with key local influencers and delivery agents, including those outside local authorities and the heritage sector. You will encourage them to champion Historic England’s work, develop collaborative projects  and inspire them to look after and invest in the historic environment.

You will identify opportunities to build new relationships with the potential to increase the public value and impact of Historic England’s work, represent the organisation with a wide variety of stakeholders, and be an effective advocate for the benefits of the historic environment for local communities.

The role will provide advice and help all teams in the local office to achieve greater impact by working with local stakeholders. You will work with our national teams to gather and share compelling evidence on the value of the historic environment within the region and contribute evidence and case studies to national initiatives.

You will work with colleagues to increase the skills and knowledge of those involved in the management of the historic environment, including  local historic environment professionals and local community groups, by identifying needs and delivering local workshops, training and ad hoc assistance.

What we are looking for

• Extensive and demonstrable experience of developing and leading stakeholder engagement

• Track record of building and maintaining relationships with a range of organisations

• Ability to work across teams as the role requires regional delivery as a whole

• Excellent written and oral communication

• Excellent negotiation, influencing and advocacy skills

Historic England is committed to providing equality of opportunity. If you have a disability, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.

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 dedicated 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 ResourcingTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries. 

Provisional virtual interview dates: week commencing 24th of October 2024

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.

Please click the following link for the full Job Description

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/uphfsgz1/historic-england-stakeholderengagementadviser-jd-july2024.odt