Summary

Historic England is the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people to understand, value, and care for them.

Historic England are excited to announce our Senior Aerial Survey Investigator (Research Collaboration) role.

The role can be based from either York or Swindon, inclusive with hybrid working. Flexible options are open to discussion.

This role provides senior capability in the Aerial Survey team by contributing to our programme of archaeological work for Historic England Regions, English Heritage Trust, Local Authorities, academic and other sector partners.  As part of the Senior Aerial Survey Investigator’s aerial survey work, they will play a major role in facilitating our ambition to make greater use of Historic England’s Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status.  This involves developing the Aerial Survey team’s innovative research, and coordinating with the wider Archaeological Investigation team, to attract partnerships and grant-aid to grow and develop our current capabilities and services. 

The postholder will deliver a high level of practical expertise by managing and participating in the investigation and assessment of the historic environment, particularly through archaeological aerial investigation and mapping. 

The postholder will provide expert support to the wider Aerial Survey team, helping to develop their work and projects.  In your collaboration role, you will nurture Historic England’s relationship with a range of sector organisations involved in aerial survey and landscape archaeology.  This will ensure enhanced opportunities for collaborating on research, training and implementation of innovative methods and technologies in aerial survey and mapping across the commercial, local government, academic and community sectors

National salary range:

£36,603 - £40,000 pro-rata

What you will be doing

• Investigation and research.  Gather, analyse and interpret aerial survey data and research material.  This will be disseminated and promoted through academic and other publications, conferences, seminars, lectures and dissemination via the web, the Research Report series and HE Research to inform the protection and management of the historic environment, in support of internal and external clients, including Regions and English Heritage Trust, and to agreed quality standards.  

• Strategic engagement: To ensure our aerial survey work benefits from collaborative approaches with other sector stakeholders and national and international partners, both public and private sector.  This should include sector specialist bodies, home nation Agencies, universities and other interested stakeholders who are deploying aerial survey techniques in landscape archaeology. 

• Intelligent client.  Contribute as requested in a timely and constructive manner as intelligent client to quality assurance and delivery of all external HE grants, commissions and tenders related to assessing the character and significance of the historic environment. 

• Capacity building.  To contribute to the development of Historic England’s capacity building, training and guidance and publication programmes. 

  This is an outline description of the duties and responsibilities involved in the job.  It is not exhaustive and may be revised from time-to-time. 

  What we are looking for

• Significant experience as a practitioner in archaeological aerial survey work and landscape archaeology with proven experience and ability to analyse and disseminate archaeological information on aerial photographs and lidar.

• Strong influencing, collaboration and negotiating skills, including an ability to mediate complex issues.

• Knowledge of the research funding landscape and building partnerships with academia, other Independent Research Organisations and the wider sector.

• Experience of project management and delivery to time, cost and quality constraints.

  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 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 14th March 2024

  To view full Job Description, please visit:

  https://historicengland.org.uk/media/o1zdjnb3/zw-senior-aerial-survey-investigator-jd-feb-2024.odt