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IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our NewsBlog updates on career opportunities posted on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service confirm the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’
‘Jobs etc. posts typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, just like the IHBC, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members and their unique and interdisciplinary skills sets and profiles to help secure the person with the perfect profile of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related disciplines and roles.’
‘The current round of postings continues to highlight the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation, and in the wider care and management of buildings, estate and property.’
‘And though Christmas is traditionally a quiet time on our Jobs etc service, this one seems – happily – much busier than usual.’
‘Headline posts this round include both senior and substantial posts in heritage-management activities, including the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust: Director of Estates and Preservation (a repost) as well as two senior posts at The Royal Household, a Property Project Manager and a Senior Building Surveyor. At the other end of the salaried spectrum on IHBC’s Jobs etc service, the Church of England is looking for Volunteer Professional Advisors – Building Services, Sustainability, and the Environment. This duet of posts also demonstrates how the IHBC’s Jobs etc service can operate as a communications network to secure high-end skills, whether tied to substantial salaries or voluntary capacity.
‘Altogether these encapsulate how estate-holding bodies with substantial heritage considerations also increasingly recognise the importance of dedicated conservation skills sets across their management of heritage resources, including thei volunteer advisory roles. They also register just how wide-ranging are the practice areas covered by the IHBC’s Areas of Competence, notably, here, that Area of Competence corresponding to ‘Management’ of assets and resources.’
‘UK local government also continues to look to the IHBC’s members to fill their posts, as may be expected, especially given our shared understanding of public interest and duties.’
For this round again the selection from Councils is smaller than many, but still includes the variety of titles and roles that reflects local priorities and arrangements, while also offering a perfect profile and spread of professional roles under the IHBC mantle. In London, the joint Richmond etc. & Wandsworth Council seeks a Senior Conservation and Urban Design Officer and Conservation and Design Officer, while Enfield is advertising for a Conservation Officer and, elsewhere, East Suffolk is looking for a Heritage Officer or Assistant Heritage Officer and Manchester City a Planning Officer, Urban Design and Heritage.
Regardless of levels of roles or scales of experience, each post relies in some way on the holistic and interdisciplinary standards in the IHBC’s conservation accreditation.
And that diversification of titles and nuancing of roles is also reflected in potentially quite different contexts across the third and ecclesiastical sector, as they increasingly invest in the IHBC’s conservation framework of standards and skills: in Scotland Inverness City Heritage Trust seeks a Manager, while in England The Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford seeks a Diocesan Advisory Committee Secretary and both Dioceses of Chelmsford and Blackburn call for Church Buildings Support Officers.
‘Of course the private sector is responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is both gratifying and heartening to see the high regard for our standards across some of the best of the more commercially-focussed operations. And, in confirmation, this round we see HCUK Group calling for a Heritage Consultant – Director; Janus Conservation Ltd for a Historic Building Surveyor; Purcell, for a Heritage Consultant, and Alan Baxter for a Heritage Team Consultant.
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 – they still capture well 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:
- Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust: Director of Estates and Preservation
- Diocese of Blackburn: Church Buildings Support Officer
- East Suffolk Council: Heritage Officer or Assistant Heritage Officer
- Diocese of Chelmsford: Church Buildings Support Officer
- Inverness City Heritage Trust: Manager
- Manchester City Council: Planning Officer, Urban Design and Heritage
- HCUK Group: Heritage Consultant – Director
- Janus Conservation Ltd: Historic Building Surveyor
- Historic Environment Scotland: Senior Project Officer
- The Royal Household: Senior Building Surveyor
- The Royal Household: Property Project Manager
- London Borough of Enfield: Conservation Officer
- London Boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth: Senior Conservation and Urban Design Officer and Conservation and Design Officer
- Purcell: Heritage Consultant
- Church of England: Volunteer Professional Advisors – Building Services, Sustainability, and the Environment
- Alan Baxter: Heritage Team Consultant
- The Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford: Diocesan Advisory Committee Secretary
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