MEND Chartered Architect/Chartered Surveyor/Chartered Architectural technologist

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 MEND Chartered Architect/Chartered Surveyor/Chartered Architectural technologist.

This is a 12 months Fixed-Term Contract, Part Time working 18 hours a week.

Salary

£38,067 - £42,378 pro-rata

National: £38,067 pro-rata

Greater London+: £40,984 pro-rata

Inner London: £42,378 pro-rata

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 (Fort Cumberland), London 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 part of Historic England’s Regions Group, you will use both your expert technical knowledge and your excellent interpersonal skills to advise on and develop sustainable proposals for repair and adaptive re-use of traditional buildings.

The post will principally be concerned with providing technical and professional support on behalf of Historic England to the Museum Estate and Development Fund, which is administered on behalf of DCMS by the Arts Council England (details of which can be found at https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/museum-estate-and-development-fund-mend).

Alongside this chief role, you will also have the opportunity to work with Historic England’s Partnerships Teams. Partnerships teams are one of several specialist teams located in Historic England’s regional offices. They are principally responsible for the delivery of HE’s discretionary services (as opposed to its statutory duties) for and with local partners in places. Partnerships teams’ chief duty is to advocate for the care and conservation, and, where appropriate, creative reuse of the historic environment so that the key contribution it makes in improving quality of life can be realised.

As key members of the regional Partnerships teams, architects and surveyors use their expert technical skills to advise partners and help them to develop proposals for repair and alteration of heritage assets and give guidance on areas of change in historic townscapes and landscapes in which those assets sit. You have a unique opportunity to impact directly on the conservation of our national heritage and to improve people’s lives by doing so.

This is an opportunity to impact directly on the conservation of our national heritage by working with owners and communities to find sustainable solutions for traditional buildings and historic areas, as well as to exchange skills and knowledge with our team of heritage professionals with expertise in historic building conservation.

Who we are looking for

• Professional qualification in architecture or building surveying, with current ARB registration or chartered RICS membership.
• Extensive wide-ranging experience of the repair of historic buildings, and in project management.
• Good working knowledge of English secular and ecclesiastical architecture of all periods.
• Excellent knowledge of historic building construction, current conservation practice and a wide range of methods for the repair, alteration and adaption of historic buildings, monuments and design in an historic context.
• Ability to approach repair problems and possible solutions in a practical and creative way.
• Good working knowledge of the implications of current construction industry regulation in relation to historic buildings and monuments.

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 dates: week commencing 21st April 2025

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/flbbmrpj/mend-chartered-architect_chartered-surveyor_chartered-architectural-technologist.odt