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 Project Manager for Knowing The Heritage Sector.

This is a Full Time, fixed term contract until March 2026.

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 - Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, London, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.  We are open to remote working for this opportunity with travel as required.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 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.

What you will be doing

The Project Manager (Knowing the Heritage Sector) will be required to undertake the management of a pioneering data project leading to the piloting of a data service about the heritage organisations active in England.  

The key purpose of this post is to provide strong project management for the KTHS project, keeping it on a tight timetable and ensuring that the required accuracy standard is met or exceeded.  The project aims eventually to make available to sector partners and customers information about the location, nature and scale of England’s heritage organisations using data scraped from the web and enhanced manually.  This will allow strategic investment in the sector to improve resilience as well as better communication between sector organisations, facilitating an internal market of goods and services. 

You will be expected to apply proven project and business change methodologies and to respond flexibly to changing circumstances, for example in relation to improvements in AI capabilities.  You will have considerable autonomy under the general supervision of the Analytics Director, to whom you will report, although collaboration with colleagues across the organisation will be essential. 

Occasional travel will be required to Swindon or London, as the project requires. 

What we are looking for

· Substantial experience of working with autonomy in a project management role

· PRINCE2 Foundation/ Practitioner certification, (or PMO/P30 qualification)

· Experience of working with heritage data (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums or Historic Environment)

· Familiarity with principles of good data management and data ethics

· Awareness of current AI capabilities for digital infrastructure

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 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 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.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive excessive applicant numbers.

Provisional interview date ; 01st July 2025

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/cwud3rdj/zw-project-manager-knowing-the-heritage-sector-jd-may-2025.docx