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IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our NewsBlog updates on career opportunities posted on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’
‘Any NewsBlog Jobs etc. update ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members, their skills and our networks to secure the right profile they need, of skills, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.’
‘The current round of postings highlights the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation. Headline roles range from The University of Oxford’s call for a Heritage & Buildings Surveying Manager and West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust’s Heritage Development Officer role, while Historic England is looking to fill four roles: Team Leader – Development Advice as well as Inspector roles in Yorkshire, with two in the North West.
At the same time Local Authority appointments remain substantial, though the sheer scale may reflect as much on the challenge of securing and keeping staff as much as any natural evolution. There St Albans and Doncaster seek a ‘Design and Conservation’ Officer; Dorset and Norwich both ‘Conservation and Design Officer’ roles; Fife a Built Heritage Officer; Wyre Forest a Conservation Officer and Surrey an Historic Buildings Officer. North Yorkshire Council is looking for a Principal Conservation Officer while York itself is looking to appoint both a Conservation Architect – today a sadly uncommon role in local authorities – and a Conservation Officer.
All opportunities demonstrate how a strategic posting of roles can add further value to the already cost-effective service offered by the IHBC’s Jobs etc service’. Clearly no other heritage and conservation career planning platform offers such a diverse yet relevant options for conservation and heritage practitioners and advisors at all levels seeking career change and progress.’
Similarly, public bodies are naturally especially well aware of the public benefit and interest embodied in the IHBC’s practice and ethical standards, as represented by our regular features on calls from Councils as noted above.
That same level of public commitment is also demonstrated by the scale of church-linked roles advertised on the service this round. The National Church Institutions (NCIs) is looking for a National Church Buildings Training and Support Officer, while the National Churches Trust seeks a Church Support Officer and Church Support Administrator. At the Diocesan level, Sheffield seeks a Church Buildings Officer; Salisbury a Church Buildings Officer and an Assistant Building Surveyor and Worcester an Assistant Church Buildings Officer (DAC & casework).
‘Again the diversity of all these conservation-linked roles highlights the many pressures on places and their building stock, their care and significance. The use of the IHBC’s service also confirms wider recognition of the complex role of historic fabric and its care in securing our collective futures, from supporting communities to managing carbon.’
‘The private sector is of course responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is as ever both gratifying and heartening to see our networks’ regard for our standards from more commercially-focussed operations. For this round Place Services seeks a Principal Built Heritage Consultant, RPS a Director/Senior Director – Built Heritage and Burrell Foley Fischer offering a welcome on the IHBC’s platform for a Conservation Architect.
All that said, the scale of posts on our ‘Jobs etc’ service just now is less dramatic than in more recent years, reflecting as it does the wider economic downturn. However these posts still capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC’s accreditation model, the IHBC Areas of Competence, and the skills represented there.’
‘To find out more on such matters, our MATE and related sessions support accreditation, while they also delve into the IHBC’s Competences and Conservation Cycle. As such they help applicants’ align their skills to the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, all in line with national and international conservation practice standards.’
Current and recent posts (some now closed) on IHBC Jobs etc. include:
- Diocese of Worcester: Assistant Church Buildings Officer – DAC & Casework
- Place Services: Principal Built Heritage Consultant
- The University of Oxford: Heritage & Buildings Surveying Manager
- St Albans City & District Council: Design and Conservation Officer (P1385)
- Dorset Council: Conservation and Design Officer
- Fife Council: Built Heritage Officer
- National Church Institutions (NCIs): National Church Buildings Training and Support Officer
- Historic England: Team Leader – Development Advice
- Historic England: Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas – Yorkshire
- Historic England: Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas – North West (2)
- North Yorkshire Council: Principal Conservation Officer
- The Diocese of Sheffield: Church Buildings Officer
- National Churches Trust: Church Support Officer
- National Churches Trust: Church Support Administrator
- West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust: Heritage Development Officer
- Norwich City Council: Conservation and Design Officer (Career Grade)
- The City of York Council: Conservation Architect
- The City of York Council: Conservation Officer
- RPS: Director/Senior Director – Built Heritage
- Diocese of Salisbury: Assistant Building Surveyor
- Diocese of Salisbury: Church Buildings Officer
- City of Doncaster Council: Design & Conservation Officer
- Wyre Forest District Council: Conservation Officer
- Surrey County Council: Historic Buildings Officer
- Burrell Foley Fischer: Conservation Architect
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