{"id":25393,"date":"2020-02-14T18:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25393"},"modified":"2020-02-14T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:48:04","slug":"serious-about-your-staffing-plans-or-career-direction-stay-ahead-on-our-ihbc-jobs-etc-service-with-interdisciplinary-conservation-roles-across-urban-church-regulatory-and-consul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25393","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your staffing plans or career direction? Stay ahead on our \u2018IHBC Jobs etc.\u2019 service, with interdisciplinary conservation roles across urban, church, regulatory and consultancy roles, and much more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners across the UK, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities posted on our \u2018IHBC Jobs etc.<\/a>\u2019 service, with recent offerings covering practice areas from administration to management, and conservation skills from heritage and planning advice to surveying and project management, so sign up for free alerts<\/a> today and \u2018stay ahead\u2019 with the IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.<\/a>\u2019 service!<\/h3>\n

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\"logo\"IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Reflecting the usual wide spectrum of roles represented on our \u2018<\/em>Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>\u2019 service, we have been carrying posts from across all the skills areas encompassed in the<\/em> IHBC Areas of Competence<\/a>, the model to manage and assess competence in conservation practice.<\/p>\n

With jobs in the public sector, we can see the classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-style roles looming large as ever.\u00a0 These demand skills that range right across the IHBC Areas of Competence<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Such posts are well represented by the more traditional title of \u2018Conservation Officer\u2019 roles called for in posts at Haringey, East Riding and Dartmoor National Park.<\/p>\n

As usual too, a focus on design skills is also sought in more specific roles: Colchester, with its Conservation & Design Officer and Bridgend, with a senior post in Conservation and Design.<\/p>\n

As the IHBC Areas of Competence<\/a> model also maps to a project management framework, IHBC accreditation offers employers unique comfort when assessing candidates\u2019 competence in such roles.<\/p>\n

So, not surprisingly, in the context of urban renewal we see the project-linked skills sets tied to IHBC accreditation highlighted further: at Torfaen\u2018s Blaenavon Townscape Heritage Programme Manager, and both Hinkley & Bosworth\u2019s Project Officer and Bedford\u2019s Project Manager for their High Street Heritage Action Zones (HAZ), as well as Hartlepool\u2018s Townscape Heritage Project Officer.<\/p>\n

A more strategic and planning-related role is envisaged in the call from Cardiff Council for its Planner (Placemaking: Heritage). Meanwhile Winchester seeks more generic heritage skills as it looks for 2 Historic Environment Officer (Full-time & Part-time).<\/p>\n

As ever the national regulatory and property-focussed bodies seek high levels of expertise in specific areas, as represented by Historic England\u2019s call for an Assistant Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas and the Historic Royal Palaces search for suitable Property Managers and\u00a0 Property Surveyors (multiple posts).<\/p>\n

More general skills sets suited to those seeking to develop their heritage careers in more specific practice areas \u2013 and still reflecting specific specialisms in the IHBC\u2019s Areas of Competence<\/a> \u2013 are being called for across the third, voluntary and church community sectors.\u00a0 The evolving partnership between the Ancient Monuments Society & Friends of Friendless Churches seeks an Administrator, a role that under the circumstances, could only benefit from heritage awareness. Similarly the Diocese of Worcester seeks a Chair of its Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches (DAC), the Diocese of Oxford seeks a Church Buildings Officers and the National Churches Trust a Church Support Officer.<\/p>\n

Increasing awareness of the importance of heritage skills in such ecclesiastical contexts \u2013 with churches having the benefit of exemptions from mainstream heritage planning controls \u2013 is also reflected in the recent training initiative between the IHBC and ChurchCare, where we offered a full programme of guidance for DAC Secretaries<\/a> and their select networks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile private sector posts, as usual, reflect the broader spectrum of priorities that inevitably respond to, in turn, client and public priorities. These include roles such as Iceni Projects: Heritage Consultant, Lichfields\u2019 Senior Heritage Consultant, Turley\u2019s Heritage and Townscape Senior Consultant or Associate Director, and Cogent Heritage\u2019s post of Heritage Consultant.<\/p>\n

In summary, recent posts include those below (all with different application dates, some closed and with links inactive):<\/p>\n