{"id":37928,"date":"2023-10-24T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37928"},"modified":"2023-10-24T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:14:00","slug":"serious-about-your-career-sign-up-for-ihbcs-jobs-etc-for-opportunities-across-diverse-disciplines-specialisms-and-levels-from-hes-x2-to-project-posts-on-coes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37928","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your career? Sign up for IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.\u2019, for opportunities across diverse disciplines, specialisms and levels: from HES (x2) to project posts on CoE\u2019s See Houses and HRP"},"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!<\/p>\n

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

\u2026 making a difference to peoples\u2019 recognition of the need for conservation standards\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/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

\u2018The current round of postings is very select but highlights even more effectively the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation.<\/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

Headline posts this round include to senior and substantial posts from Historic Environment Scotland (HES): a Head of Technical Education & Training and an Estates Strategist.\u00a0 These alone demonstrate the breadth of roles to which the IHBC\u2019s competences, standards and conservation skills sets are critical.<\/p>\n

Equally, the Historic Royal Palaces\u2019 call for a Project Manager and The Church of England\u2019s (CoE) call for a See Houses Projects Manager together encapsulate how estates with substantial heritage considerations are increasingly recognising the importance of including dedicated conservation skills sets across their heritage resources.<\/p>\n

At the same time Historic England, with its call for a\u00a0 Historic Environment Planning Adviser; the Commonwealth Heritage Forum though it call for a Consultant Training & Skills Coordinator, and Hatfield Park\u2019s call for a Senior Building Surveyor all look to the IHBC\u2019s skills framework too.\u00a0 These confirm that whatever area of practice a person might specialise \u2013 from planning to training \u2013 the work of the IHBC with the wider heritage sector is really making a difference to peoples\u2019 recognition of the need for conservation standards in all our places, regardless of age.<\/p>\n

\u2018Councils are continually seeking the right skills from IHBC\u2019s members too, as may be expected, especially given our shared public duties and our own charitable standing and priorities.\u2019<\/p>\n

This round the selection is small, but perfectly profiled, as the Test Valley, Bromsgrove & Redditch and Shropshire seek\u00a0 Conservation Officers – the role within which the IHBC\u2019s practice-based competences first evolved \u2013 and Plymouth calls for an Historic Environment Officer, a more generic title but one no less reliant on the holistic and interdisciplinary standards in the IHBC\u2019s conservation accreditation.<\/p>\n

That diversification of titles and nuancing of roles is also well reflected in two other potentially quite different posts that also recognise the IHBC\u2019s conservation framework of standards and skills: Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust\u2019s Architectural Adviser and Archaeology South-East \/UCL\u2019s Archaeologist (Supervisor, Historic Buildings).<\/p>\n

\u2018Of course the private sector is responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is both gratifying and heartening to see the high regard for our standards across some of the best of the more commercially-focussed operations.\u00a0 For this round RPS seeks a Director\/Senior Director (Built Heritage}; Heritage Architecture Ltd an \u2018Experienced Built Heritage & Townscape Consultant\u2019 and LUC an Historic Environment Consultant \/Senior Consultant.<\/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 \u2013 reflecting as it does the wider economic downturn \u2013 they still capture well 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