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Posted on 04/08/2023 by IHBC

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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 competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.’

… Councils are continually seeking the right skills from the IHBC…

‘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. Less familiar posts identified in the last round included The University of Oxford’s call for a Heritage & Buildings Surveying Manager, while in this round they could include the Mercure Leicester ‘Tender’ and, noted further below, the DAC volunteer role.

Overall, though, in this round the usual national and local regulatory and advisory employers seek more traditional roles in their posts.  Obviously the core skills profiles align no less well with the more historic standards in the IHBC’s skills models.’

‘For example Historic England’s posts include Inspector of Historic Buildings (x2), an Historic Environment Planning Adviser and an Inspector Ancient Monuments.  Similarly the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is looking to secure a Geomatics Officer and Historic Environment Scotland is seeking 2 Historic Buildings Advisers.’

‘Councils are continually seeking the right skills from the IHBC as is to be expected, especially given our shared public duties and our own charitable standing and priorities.’

‘For example Windsor & Maidenhead and Bath and North East Somerset both looking for Conservation Officers, and the latter also looking to appoint a ‘Principal Officer – World Heritage’, which likely requires a similar profile.  South Kesteven is looking for a Conservation Officer too, but also a Principal Conservation Officer, while the New Forest is advertising for a Principal Historic Conservation Officer and Islington for a more senior post of ‘Team Leader – Design and Conservation’.  Notices from Swansea for a ‘Placemaking and Heritage Officer’ and the City of Bradford for a ‘Planning Officer (Conservation)’ again reflect variations on the same range of skills.’

That same level of public commitment is also demonstrated by the continuing use of our service for roles by charitable and ecclesiastical interests.  These are well represented here by the call from Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust for an Outreach Officer and Grants Assistant; by Wentworth Woodhouse for a Head of Heritage (Buildings and Landscape) and by Heritage Lincolnshire for its Historic Environment Manager & Community Heritage Solutions Project Manager.’

‘Perhaps most welcome and impressive this round though is the call by The Chelmsford Diocesan Advisory Committee (DACs) for a volunteer, as DAC ‘Vice Chair’.’

… just how cost-effective the IHBC’s Jobs etc service’ actually is…

‘All these postings demonstrate just how cost-effective the IHBC’s Jobs etc service’ actually is for a very diverse spread of extremely cost-conscious employers.  They also re-affirm the public interest priorities that include the complex role of historic fabric and its care in securing our collective futures, from supporting communities to managing carbon.’

‘Of course 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 Orion Heritage’s call for a Technical Director/ Principal Consultant – Built Heritage; Fuller Long’s for a Senior Heritage Consultant and Faithful+Gould’s for a Senior Building Surveyor – Conservation and Heritage Specialism.

If 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 – 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.’

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