{"id":38298,"date":"2023-11-17T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38298"},"modified":"2023-11-17T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T17:46:13","slug":"serious-about-your-career-get-ihbcs-jobs-etc-for-diverse-roles-disciplines-specialisms-and-levels-from-jersey-and-chatham-dockyard-to-archaeology-and-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38298","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your career? Get IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.\u2019, for diverse roles, disciplines, specialisms and levels, from Jersey and Chatham Dockyard to archaeology and councils\u2026"},"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

[this round of jobs]\u2026. demonstrate the breadth of roles to which the IHBC\u2019s competences, standards and conservation skills sets are critical\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 confirm 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 disciplines and roles.\u2019<\/p>\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 and related roles in the care and development of buildings, property, areas and places.\u2019<\/p>\n

Headline posts this round include senior and substantial posts with a strong \u2018asset-management\u2019 focus.\u00a0 These range from Jersey Heritage and its search for the right person for an especially well-remunerated post as Director of Historic Property and Environment; Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust\u2019s call for a Director of Estates and Preservation; and the National Trust seeking for a \u2018Cultural Heritage Curator\u2019.<\/p>\n

Altogether these encapsulate how estate-holding bodies with substantial heritage considerations increasingly recognise the importance of dedicated conservation skills sets across their highest levels of management of heritage resources.\u00a0 These also register just how wide-ranging are the practice areas covered by the IHBC\u2019s Areas of Competence, notably, here, that corresponding to \u2018Management\u2019.<\/p>\n

Complementing those \u2018Management\u2019 practice areas, this round of jobs also has substantial posts representing our \u2018Evaluation\u2019 Area of Competence \u2013 covering \u2018history\u2019 and \u2018Research, Recording and Analysis\u2019, if, unsurprisingly, at rather smaller salaries.\u00a0 That said there are still no less than two archaeology-led roles: HCUK Group\u2019s Archaeological Clerk of Works and Archaeology South-East \/UCL\u2019s call for an Archaeologist (Supervisor, Historic Buildings), as well as – with its stronger history and conservation practice focus – Historic England\u2019s Inspector of Historic Buildings and Areas.<\/p>\n

These alone demonstrate the breadth of roles to which the IHBC\u2019s competences, standards and conservation skills sets are critical.<\/p>\n

\u2018Councils are also continuing to look to IHBC\u2019s members especially for their posts, as may be expected, especially given our shared public duties and our own charitable standing and priorities.\u2019<\/p>\n

For this round again the selection from Councils is smaller than usual, but still includes varied titles that reflect more local arrangements, and still offers a perfect profile of the professional role.\u00a0 Bath & North East Somerset\u2019s Conservation Officer; Hillingdon\u2019s Principle Conservation Officer both represent core practice roles tied to primary planning legislation across the UK on conservation.\u00a0 Oxford City\u2019s Heritage Officer, Trafford\u2019s Heritage Development Officer and West Norfolk\u2019s Project Officer represent broader remits sought to reflect more local priorities.\u00a0 Regardless, each relies 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 \u2013 here from the third sector – that also recognise the IHBC\u2019s conservation framework of standards and skills: Bath Preservation Trust\u2019s call for a Planning Officer \u2013 Conservation, and Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust\u2019s call for an Architectural Adviser.\u00a0 Church bodies also are increasingly looking to the authoritative network of the IHBC for staff, as represented in this round by the Diocese of Truro\u2019s search for a Church Buildings Support Officer.<\/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 LUC\u2019s\u00a0 Historic Environment Consultant \/Senior Consultant and Heritage Consultant \u2013 Associate Director are relevant, as are Place Services\u2019 Assistant Built Heritage Consultant and Built Heritage 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