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IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our IHBC NewsBlog updates regularly review the diverse career opportunities in heritage, conservation and related areas posted on the IHBC Jobs etc service. This round continues to demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’
‘IHBC Jobs etc. summaries here typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, while highlighting their common objective: to secure the person they need, they target IHBC members and their skills, as well as our wide-ranging networks.’
‘Here, our last Jobs etc. NewsBlog for 2024, again demonstrates the huge range of roles coming to us to be filled, as well as the role the IHBC’s Conservation Cycle model of skills plays in assessing potential’.
Of the current round of posts, the more senior roles highlight the scope of skills sought: from London Historic Buildings Trust (Director) and Historic England’s Senior Building Conservation Advisor and Architect/Surveyor (South West),to the senior posts in local government listed further below.
New specialisms are becoming increasingly familiar in these reviews too, such as the Historic Royal Palaces call for a Senior Project Manager with a ‘Decarbonisation’ focus, and St Albans Cathedral’s call for a ‘Sustainability Projects Officer’.
Other employers’ posts register the different ends of the more usual IHBC-accredited practitioners’ roles, including Nottingham Historic Building Trust – with its more general post of a Heritage Development Officer – and The Dulwich Estate, which is calling for a ‘Scheme of Management Architect’, a role both distinctive and critical in conservation practice and outcomes.
This suite of roles offers sound insight into how our service helps make a real impact on conservation-related matters. Happily, we are also still seeing strong presence by the core users of our service, not least around local public service calls for conservation roles.
‘Our linked employment and accreditation services successfully underpin to the credibility of our quality assurance for Councils, even with their increasingly diverse, even stretched demands for skills and roles. This round is notable for a good number of ‘Senior’ conservation and/or design roles, including at Dorset Council (Senior Conservation and Design Officer); Guildford and Kirklees (Senior Conservation Officers) as well as West Berkshire (Principal Conservation and Design Officer).’
‘At the same time Teignbridge, East Riding of Yorkshire and Hart all seek Conservation Officers, while Cheshire East is looking at succession planning by calling for both a Heritage and Conservation Officer & a Heritage Assistant.’
The private sector is quiet however, presumably reflecting the reduced investment in heritage-related development in recent months.
‘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, they capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of 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 our accreditation matters, our MATE and related sessions help career-focussed, conservation-conscious practitioners secure IHBC accreditation at minimal cost. These guide members and networks on how to align their skills, knowledge and experience with the IHBC’s own interdisciplinary assessment of conservation competence, a system aligned with national and international conservation practice standards.’
Current and recent posts (some now closed) on IHBC Jobs etc include:
- Teignbridge District Council: Conservation Officer
- Hart District Council: Conservation Officer
- Historic England: Senior Building Conservation Advisor
- Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich: Historic Church Building Support Officer (HCBSO)
- Historic England: Architect/Surveyor – South West
- Guildford Borough Council: Senior Conservation Officer
- West Berkshire Council: Principal Conservation and Design Officer
- Cheshire East Council: Heritage and Conservation Officer & Heritage Assistant
- Diocese of Oxford: Assistant Church Buildings Officer
- Kirklees Council: Senior Conservation Officers
- East Riding of Yorkshire Council: Conservation Officer
- London Historic Buildings Trust (LHBT): Director
- The Dulwich Estate: Scheme of Management Architect
- St Albans Cathedral: Sustainability Projects Officer
- Dorset Council: Senior Conservation and Design Officer
- Historic Royal Palaces: Senior Project Manager, Decarbonisation
- Nottingham Historic Building Trust (NHBT): Heritage Development Officer
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