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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 posted on the IHBC Jobs etc service continue to demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’
‘Any IHBC NewsBlog or IHBC Jobs etc. listing ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special strategy in common: to secure the person they need, they target IHBC members and their skills, and our wide-ranging networks too.’
‘Following the focus on skills in managing and caring for property and places at our Reading School last June, it’s especially good to see ion this round the focus on facilities. So we have both Friends of Friendless Churches and Bristol’s Trinity Community Arts looking to us for the best skills to fulfil their own charitable objects. As we expand these networks too, do be sure to pass on the word to your colleagues about the opportunities posted here.
So, as the Friends of Friendless Churches seeks a Deputy Director, it also looks to us for an Estate Officer. Similarly Trinity Community Arts is looking to the IHBC to find a suitably skilled Heritage Facilities (Sites) Manager and a Facilities Assistant/Caretaker. On the latter, it offers a useful reminder on how the skilled ‘care’ role on the coal-face of heritage places is as important to conservation outcomes as the most strategic posts!
‘Of course our country’s Councils, rightly, remain a core provider of heritage and conservation services. Following on from facilities-linked posts above, this IHBC Jobs etc. round for Councils is distinguished by a broad spread of levels of seniority in place-care, as well as the usual diversity of skills targeted.
‘At the more senior levels, Rother is looking for a Principal Conservation Officer and Waverley Borough a Senior Conservation Officer, while Sefton Council seeks a Senior Planning Officer (Conservation and Heritage).’
‘The IHBC’s Conservation Cycle model – used in our accreditation as outlined below – is usefully mirrored in the spread of skills and roles in Councils too. Derbyshire takes a familiar if more ‘intervention’-led line, joining up ‘Conservation and Urban Design’ in their Officer’s role. Charnwood goes to the other end of the IHBC’s Conservation Cycle by seeking a ‘Heritage Officer’, a titular leaning to the ‘Understanding’ end of our Cycle. The Highland Council goes right to the Cycle’s centre, and ‘Management’, as its post calls for the archetypal ‘Conservation Planning Officer’.
The skills spread for ecclesiastical employers, as usual, complements well the expert skills sets of IHBC members. This round the Dioceses of Monmouth and Llandaff seeks a Church Buildings Surveyor, a role that will have a stronger focus on individual building assessments than those above, but will still need IHBC-linked skills that reach right across our Cycle.
The private sector is relatively quiet this round, with Bidwells calling for an Architectural Technologist still on the books, perhaps a sign of the increased awareness of the need for higher standards and stronger expertise in conservation practice in this discipline.
‘In the private sector, no less interesting is the seniority suggested in posts offered, as SLR seeks a Senior Built Heritage Consultant and HCUK Group’s a Heritage Consultant – Senior/Associate Director.
‘Despite the lower numbers of opportunities than past rounds, all these postings confirm just how cost-effective the IHBC’s Jobs etc service actually is for a sector that is invariably populated by price-sensitive employers.’
‘As noted above, this suite of postings re-affirms 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.’
‘Individually too, theses posts capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC’s accreditation model, the IHBC’s Conservation Cycle and our IHBC Areas of Competence, and the skills represented there.’
‘To find out more on such matters, our MATE and related sessions will help you secure IHBC accreditation, guiding you on how to align your skills, knowledge and experience with the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, in line with national and international conservation practice standards.’
Current and recent posts (some now closed) on IHBC Jobs etc include:
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- Diocese of Salisbury: Net Zero Decarbonisation Officer
- Cadw: Head of Monument Conservation, Wales
- Donald Insall Associates: Architect / Senior Architect
- St Mary The Virgin Stebbing: Heritage Engagement Officer
- Waverley Borough Council: Senior Conservation Officer
- Trinity: Heritage Facilities (Sites) Manager
- Trinity: Facilities Assistant/Caretaker
- Charnwood Borough Council: Heritage Officer
- Rother District Council: Principal Conservation Officer
- Friends of Friendless Churches: Deputy Director
- Friends of Friendless Churches: Estate Officer
- The Dioceses of Monmouth and Llandaff: Church Buildings Surveyor
- Derbyshire County Council: Conservation and Urban Design Officer
- Highland Council: Conservation Planning Officer
- Sefton Council: Senior Planning Officer (Conservation and Heritage)
- SLR: Senior Built Heritage Consultant
- HCUK Group: Heritage Consultant – Senior/Associate Director
- Bidwells: Architectural Technologist
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