Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service, for posts across diverse disciplines, specialisms & levels, from high-end estate management to conservation graduates

Posted on 31/05/2024 by IHBC

To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique career service!

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IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our IHBC NewsBlog updates on the diverse career opportunities in heritage, conservation and related areas, all posted on the IHBC Jobs etc  service, continue to demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’

… one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members….as well as our wide-ranging networks to secure the right profile they need…

‘Any IHBC NewsBlog or IHBC Jobs etc. listing ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members and their skills as well as our wide-ranging networks to secure the right profile they need, of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.’

‘The current round of postings highlights the need both for high-level management and strategic advisory roles as well as on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation.  this round even includes a call for a conservation graduate!’

For example, senior management and technical skills continue to loom large, whether alongside a property and estate management focus, with the Charterhouse’s call for a Head of Estates, or Historic England’s post of Head of Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation.  Levels also range widely, from substantial sand specific asset management roles, such as

Norwich Historic Churches Trust: Head of Operations, Conservation and Heritage, to Lancaster City Council’s call for a Conservation Graduate.

… our ‘Jobs etc’ service is now also reaching beyond the more familiar roles and employers…

While a more typical ‘Conservation Officer’ post is offered at Maidstone, in the form of a Principal Conservation Officer or Conservation Officer, our ‘Jobs etc’ service is now also reaching beyond the more familiar roles and employers.  For example Habitats & Heritage seeks a Conservation & Interpretation Officer, while the local authority’s model Conservation Officer service role are more evident in the call by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation for a Heritage & Stewardship Officer.

Another interesting variant seeking access to the IHBC’s networks, services and skills is The Commonwealth War Graves Commission as it calls for both a Historic Building Survey Manager (Condition Survey Manager) and a Conservation Advisor.

The wider NGO, non-profit and Places of Worship practice areas also see the value of the IHBC’s employment networks and services, with The Dioceses of Monmouth and Llandaff seeking a Senior Church Buildings Surveyor and the Churches Conservation Trust: Conservation Projects Manager, South East.

Rounding of this small but still largely representative section or professional areas covered in our service is the private sector call by tor&co for a Senior Heritage Consultant.

‘Despite the lower numbers of opportunities than usual, all these postings encapsulate just how cost-effective the IHBC’s Jobs etc service’ actually is for a very diverse spread of invariably price-sensitive 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.’

The scale of posts on our IHBC Jobs etc service captures 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:

IHBC Jobs etc offers advertisers:

  • Special reductions for posts specifying skills in conservation (10%) and heritage (5%)
  • Additional reductions for charities (25%)
  • Even more reductions for bulk sales (just ask!)
  • Free cross-promotion in IHBC’s HESPR ‘Weekly News and tender Alert’, where relevant
  • IHBC Jobs etc  posts feature regularly on the ever popular IHBC NewsBlogs
  • Circulation data feedback as standard.

IHBC Jobs etc offers:

  • 2600+ specialist and personal contact network (IHBC members and non-members) by individual email
  • Feature page, illustration and summary on the IHBC Jobs etc website
  • IHBC website homepage link (c.300,000 page visits/month)
  • IHBC’s social networks (c.18,000 core users; c.27,000 extended links)

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