{"id":28715,"date":"2020-12-22T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28715"},"modified":"2020-12-22T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:36:38","slug":"serious-about-your-staffing-plans-or-career-direction-stay-ahead-with-ihbc-jobs-etc-offering-interdisciplinary-conservation-roles-from-design-to-outreach-townscapes-to-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28715","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your staffing plans or career direction? Stay ahead with \u2018IHBC Jobs etc\u2019, offering interdisciplinary conservation roles from design to outreach, townscapes to monitoring (Wales), and much more!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners across the UK, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the diverse career opportunities advertised on our \u2018IHBC Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>\u2019 service, while recent posts include roles across Urban Design (London), Townscape, and a rare and very welcome \u2018Heritage Monitoring\u2019 role in Wales, so sign up for free alerts<\/a> and \u2018stay ahead\u2019 with the IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>\u2019 service!<\/h3>\n

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IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Reflecting the usual wide spectrum of roles represented on our \u2018<\/em>Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>\u2019 <\/em>service, we have been carrying posts from across all the skills areas encompassed in the<\/em> IHBC Areas of Competence<\/em><\/a> and the model \u2018Conservation Cycle<\/a>\u2019, as detailed in our MATE<\/a> application support sessions.\u00a0 These represent our integrated model for managing and assessing interdisciplinary competence in conservation practice.<\/p>\n

\u2026 classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled skills\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Jobs in the public sector that seek the classic interdisciplinary Conservation Officer-styled skills loom as large as ever.\u00a0 These demand skills that range right across the IHBC Areas of Competence<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>Such posts are well represented\u00a0 by Chichester\u2019s Senior Conservation and Design Officer (Maternity Cover) post.<\/p>\n

\u2026headlining of a critical role\u2026 marks the over-arching role of monitoring in credible conservation\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

More nuanced variations across the archetypal \u2018Conservation Officer\u2019 balance of skills are also clear in the current selection.\u00a0 South Oxfordshire\u2019s \u2018Conservation Enquiry Officer\u2019, highlights the community and service end of the role, while Monmouthshire\u2019s \u2018Heritage Monitoring Officer\u2019 is an intriguing, and sadly rare but hugely welcome headlining of a critical role of monitoring in conservation.\u00a0 The specific link to the IHBC\u2019s model is uniquely captured in the idea of the Conservation Cycle, where the titular reference to a cyclical process formally marks the over-arching role of monitoring in credible conservation.<\/p>\n

At the same time 3 other project-linked roles also represent more interventionist approaches, themselves no less important.\u00a0 In a time of restricted finances and a pandemic-heightened focus on outcomes that cannot be a surprise.\u00a0 Heritage Lincolnshire\u2019s Projects Officer highlights the finance and economics competences in the Areas of Practical Competence, with its focus on \u2018Grants and Conservation\u2019, while Medway\u2019s\u00a0 High Street Heritage Action Zone (HAZ) Project Officer looks more specifically to project management skills.<\/p>\n

… early career role\u2026 should offer a good range of skills and learning opportunities\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Interestingly too, the posts from the last three employer types for this round – public, private and charity employers respectively – also capture the spectrum of the IHBC\u2019s model practice Areas of Competence: Urban Design & Heritage in a London borough (Evaluation to Intervention), Heritage and Townscape Consultant (JLL) (Management and Intervention) and Oxford Preservation Trust\u2019s search for an Assistant Heritage and Outreach Officer (Evaluation and Intervention), an early career role that should offer a good range of skills and learning opportunities for anyone entering the sector.<\/p>\n

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