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 are seeking a Listing Adviser to join our team to provide specialist support to the Listing Team Leader in the delivery of a Listing service in the South West of England and contribute to the delivery of a designation service to corporate, regional and strategic priorities.

What you will be doing:

You will lead assessing candidates for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) across the full spectrum of the historic environment, providing accurate and timely specialist advice to agreed standards, formats and deadlines, including for Enhanced Advisory Services cases.

You will work with equal ease on reactive casework and strategic projects, responding to Historic England regional and corporate priorities, undertaking consultation procedures with key stakeholders including local authorities, amenity societies, owners and applicants.

You will deliver recommendations to the Team Leader based on robust, well- expressed assessment and consultation, recognise and flag contentious or controversial cases as early as possible, ensuring risks are identified and mitigated and external interests and perceptions considered, building on expertise in particular areas of specialist knowledge, and to use, share and disseminate this knowledge as appropriate within and outside Historic England.

Your role will be to mentor Assistant Advisers and apprentices, working with other regional and central teams to ensure the alignment of Listing activity with agreed priorities and underpinning research as appropriate.

Working with partners and stakeholders to deliver strategic and thematic Listing programmes, promoting our Enhanced Advisory Services and contribute to EAS casework, you will manage strategic projects in accordance with group procedures as agreed with the Team Leader.

You will be a champion of the principles of Listing and current Listing policy and communicate them through various media including TV and radio where required, building relationships with external stakeholders and attend and contribute to Conservation Officer fora as agreed with the Team Leader, support the Listing Team through duty cover and other agreed mechanisms and represent Listing on internal programme boards and networks as agreed with the Team Leader.

Who we are looking for:

• Experience of working in and specialist assessment of the historic environment.

• Excellent communication skills at all levels – written and verbal

• Experience of legislative regimes for protecting the historic environment

• Ability to build positive external and internal working relationships and effective cross team working

• Ability to juggle heavy casework loads whilst continuing to meet deadlines

• Commitment to a strong team working ethos.

The role will require travel to Historic England offices and locations throughout South-West England.   Some locations may not be serviced by public transport.

The role may require visiting/inspecting sites where climbing scaffolding and negotiating confined spaces will be necessary.

Due to the national remit of the role, attendance at meetings and site visits may occasionally involve overnight stays.

 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 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 ResourcingTeam@Historicengland.org.uk or telephone 07763387811 if you have any recruitment queries.

Provisional interview date week commencing 12th June 2023.

Please click on the following link for a copy of the full Job Description;

https://historicengland.org.uk/content/job-descriptions-hr/listing-adviser-jd/