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 Historic Environment Record (HER) Partnerships Supervisor, as part of our Historic Environment Record (HER) Partnerships team. This is a part time role, 0.6 FTE.

The Historic Environment Record (HER) Partnerships team is committed to creating improved access to historic environment information via a national network of locally held Historic Environment Records (HERs). Its mission is to support the development of HERs through the provision of advice and guidance and through partnership working.

As a member of the HER Partnerships team, you will manage a national programme of HER audits, collaborate with colleagues across Historic England and with external partners, and contribute to the development of HER best practice, standards, guidance and documentation.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth and Cambridge. 

What you will be doing

Manage the national programme of HER audits; this involves working with HERs to carry out an audit of their HER, including:

• the assessment of HER structure, content and compliance with standards and data quality, and

• the identification of actions to develop and enhance their services within a framework of continuous improvement.

Contribute to the development of HER best practice, standards, guidance and documentation, with particular reference to the new UK HER Manual, FAIR data principles and implementation of the Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS) strategy.

Gather, assess and share information on HERs to ensure consistent approaches to local authority engagement. Requires building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues across the Historic England and with external partners.

Represent the HER Partnerships team at seminars, conferences, national and regional HER meetings, and take an active role in raising awareness of the team within Historic England and the broader historic environment sector.

Assist the effective and efficient operational management of HIAS work packages, including projects to replace the new Heritage Gateway, the NHRE to HER programme and National Security Copy (NSC) workflow.

Who we are looking for

A degree (or equivalent) in a core discipline relating to the historic environment or relevant experience to this level

• Experience of working with Local Authority Historic Environment Records, database management including data standards, reference data and thesauri, structures, formats and common issues, as well as interoperability

• Experience of working in an advisory capacity

• Experience working with GIS and data analytics software

• Knowledge of the processes used to manage land-use change and their interaction with the historic environment, including the planning process, forestry and environmental land management schemes

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.

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/1dtdjflj/historic-environment-record-partnerships-supervisor.odt