{"id":37197,"date":"2023-08-04T18:14:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37197"},"modified":"2023-08-04T18:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T17:15:06","slug":"serious-about-your-career-sign-up-for-ihbcs-jobs-etc-for-opportunities-across-diverse-disciplines-specialisms-and-levels-he-4-councils-9-rcahmw-volunteers-tend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37197","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.\u2019, for opportunities across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: HE (4), HES (2) Councils (9), RCAHMW, Volunteers & Tenders (1 each), & many more"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To help connect employers\u2019 needs and practitioners\u2019 skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our \u2018IHBC Jobs etc.<\/em><\/a>\u2019<\/em> service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts<\/a> and \u2018stay ahead\u2019 with the our unique career service!<\/h3>\n

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Sign up for the Jobs etc. email alert<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Our NewsBlog updates on career opportunities posted on the \u2018IHBC Jobs etc.<\/em><\/a>\u2019 service demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Any NewsBlog Jobs etc.<\/em> update ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members, their skills and our networks to secure the right profile they need, of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2026 Councils are continually seeking the right skills from the IHBC\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

\u2018The current round of postings highlights the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation. Less familiar posts identified in the last round included The University of Oxford\u2019s call for a Heritage & Buildings Surveying Manager, while in this round they could include the Mercure Leicester \u2018Tender\u2019 and, noted further below, the DAC volunteer role.<\/p>\n

Overall, though, in this round the usual national and local regulatory and advisory employers seek more traditional roles in their posts.\u00a0 Obviously the core skills profiles align no less well with the more historic standards in the IHBC\u2019s skills models.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018For example Historic England\u2019s posts include Inspector of Historic Buildings (x2), an Historic Environment Planning Adviser and an Inspector Ancient Monuments.\u00a0 Similarly the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is looking to secure a Geomatics Officer and Historic Environment Scotland is seeking 2 Historic Buildings Advisers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Councils are continually seeking the right skills from the IHBC as is to be expected, especially given our shared public duties and our own charitable standing and priorities.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018For example Windsor & Maidenhead and Bath and North East Somerset both looking for Conservation Officers, and the latter also looking to appoint a \u2018Principal Officer \u2013 World Heritage\u2019, which likely requires a similar profile.\u00a0 South Kesteven is looking for a Conservation Officer too, but also a Principal Conservation Officer, while the New Forest is advertising for a Principal Historic Conservation Officer and Islington for a more senior post of \u2018Team Leader \u2013 Design and Conservation\u2019.\u00a0 Notices from Swansea for a \u2018Placemaking and Heritage Officer\u2019 and the City of Bradford for a \u2018Planning Officer (Conservation)\u2019 again reflect variations on the same range of skills.\u2019<\/p>\n

That same level of public commitment is also demonstrated by the continuing use of our service for roles by charitable and ecclesiastical interests.\u00a0 These are well represented here by the call from Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust for an Outreach Officer and Grants Assistant; by Wentworth Woodhouse for a Head of Heritage (Buildings and Landscape) and by Heritage Lincolnshire for its Historic Environment Manager & Community Heritage Solutions Project Manager.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Perhaps most welcome and impressive this round though is the call by The Chelmsford Diocesan Advisory Committee (DACs) for a volunteer, as DAC \u2018Vice Chair\u2019.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2026 just how cost-effective the IHBC\u2019s Jobs etc service\u2019 actually is\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

\u2018All these postings demonstrate just how cost-effective the IHBC\u2019s Jobs etc<\/em> service\u2019 actually is for a very diverse spread of extremely cost-conscious employers.\u00a0 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Of course the private sector is of course responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is as ever both gratifying and heartening to see our networks\u2019 regard for our standards from more commercially-focussed operations.\u00a0 For this round Orion Heritage\u2019s call for a Technical Director\/ Principal Consultant \u2013 Built Heritage; Fuller Long\u2019s for a Senior Heritage Consultant and Faithful+Gould\u2019s for a Senior Building Surveyor \u2013 Conservation and Heritage Specialism.<\/p>\n

If the scale of posts on our \u2018<\/em>Jobs etc<\/em><\/a>\u2019<\/em> \u00a0service<\/em> just now is less dramatic than in more recent years – reflecting as it does the wider economic downturn – these posts still capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC\u2019s accreditation model, the IHBC Areas of Competence<\/a>, and the skills represented there.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018To find out more on such matters, our MATE<\/a>\u00a0 and related sessions support accreditation, while they also delve into the IHBC\u2019s Competences and Conservation Cycle.\u00a0 As such they help applicants\u2019 align their skills to the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, all in line with national and international conservation practice standards<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

Current and recent posts (some now closed) on IHBC Jobs etc.<\/em><\/a> include:<\/p>\n