Head of Portfolio Development

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 Head of Portfolio Development.

This is a Full Time, Permanent post.

Salary is dependent on location.

National £52,765 per annum

Greater London+ £54,390 per annum

Inner London £57,714 per annum

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 - London, Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.

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.

What you will be doing

As a key member of the Portfolio Development & Delivery (Portfolio) department, you will work closely with the Head of Portfolio Development & Delivery to lead the development of a unified portfolio of work including a delivery pipeline underpinning the corporate plan, driving strategic alignment and benefits management enabling compliance with the Government Functional Standard GovS002 Project Delivery.

Working with team colleagues and senior leaders across the organisation, you will drive the development of new initiatives, from initial triage and Treasury Green Book business case development to mobilisation, ensuring benefits management is embedded from the start.

The role sits within Business Improvement Group, a dynamic part of Historic England committed to enabling innovative delivery, developing Historic England as an organisation and focusing its performance.

Who we are looking for

• Proven experience in portfolio and pipeline development and leadership in a complex, large scale organisational environment.
• Experience of developing or leading Treasury Green Book business cases
• Experience of developing or leading an approach to benefits management in a complex organisation
• Experience of mobilising delivery teams at pace
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience in income generation and new business development.
• Accreditation in Better Business Cases™ Foundation, Management of Portfolios (MoP™).
• Strong problem-solver with ability to deal with pressure and challenge
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at an executive level.

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 [email protected] 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.

Provisional interview date: 9th April 2025

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/cmfd0xsc/head-of-portfolio-development-jd-mar-2025.odt