{"id":38852,"date":"2024-01-23T18:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38852"},"modified":"2024-01-23T18:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:05:27","slug":"serious-about-your-career-sign-up-to-ihbcs-jobs-etc-for-opportunities-across-diverse-roles-and-disciplines-spotlighting-building-and-estate-management-for-ihbcreading2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38852","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your career? Sign up to IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.\u2019, for opportunities across diverse roles and disciplines – spotlighting building and estate management for #IHBCReading2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To help connect employers\u2019 needs and practitioners\u2019 skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog<\/em> readers about 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 for members and employers.<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 each post relies in some way on the holistic and interdisciplinary standards in the IHBC\u2019s conservation accreditation\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Our NewsBlog<\/em> updates on career opportunities posted on the \u2018IHBC\u2019s Jobs etc.<\/em><\/a>\u2019 service attest to the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.\u2019<\/p>\n

Our \u2018Jobs etc.<\/em> posts typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, just like the IHBC, but all have one key consideration in common: they target IHBC members and networks for their unique, interdisciplinary skills sets and profiles in their search for the person with the perfect \u2018fit,\u2019 of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related disciplines and roles.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The current round of postings continues to spotlight the expanding engagement with our services and standards by employers across facilities, building, area and estate care and management.\u00a0 In particular, for this round, we will spotlight the conservation compliant roles and skills that we\u2019ll be interrogating especially closely at our forthcoming 2024 Reading school programme across 12-15 June: #IHBCReading2024.<\/p>\n

\u2018We can start this review with smaller employers with area and estate care responsibilities \u2013 such as The Spitalfields Trust which seeks a Buildings Restoration and Operations Manager, and the more longstanding opportunities at Inverness City Heritage Trust for a Manager, and Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust for a Director of Estates and Preservation.\u00a0 These types of roles extend to some of the nation\u2019s most important heritage estate owners, which this round include English Heritage, which seeks an Estate Manager and a Building Conservation Manager.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Such roles also encompass the practical, building-focussed skills sets that lie at the heart of the IHBC\u2019s holistic conservation of buildings and areas.\u00a0 Here national players lead the way: The National Trust seeks a Senior Building Surveyor and Building Surveyor and Historic England calls for a Conservation Architect or Surveyor.\u00a0 At the same time Historic England is also looking to recruit across more policy-based areas \u2013 again linked to a target areas in our 2024 School \u2013 as it calls for a Senior Building Conservation Advisor and a Team Leader \u2013 Development Advice.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The advisory role also ties into the IHBC\u2019s historic links to local government conservation.\u00a0 Though the IHBC now represents a much wider constituency of members than conservation officers, those ties are still vibrant, and evident especially in the ongoing prominence across our service supporting conservation-related posts in local government.\u00a0 This round includes Windsor & Maidenhead\u2019s call for a Senior Conservation Officer and the Test Valley \u2018s Building Conservation Officer (Planning and Building) post.\u2019<\/p>\n

Clearly, even at quieter times such as these, local government in the UK continues to look to IHBC members to fill their critical posts.\u00a0 This is to be expected of course, especially given our shared understanding of public interest and duties.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018At the same time, the same consultation and community engagement that looks back to our local government roots is also evident in ecclesiastical and related roles linked to the management and care of places of worship.\u00a0 For example the Church of England (Birmingham) looks to us to identify Care of Churches Officer (CCO) and \u2018Volunteer Professional Advisors \u2013 Building Services, Sustainability, and the Environment\u2019.\u00a0 That role is evident also at the Diocesan level, as Chelmsford, Newcastle and Carlisle call for Church Buildings Support Officers as the best way to deliver outcomes linked to new, targeted heritage focussed funding.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Altogether these posts show how estate-holding bodies with heritage interests, just as much as local authorities, recognise the importance of dedicated IHBC-modelled conservation skills sets across the management of their resources.\u00a0\u00a0 They also register just how wide-ranging are the practice areas covered by the IHBC\u2019s Areas of Competence, notably, here and at our Reading Annual School, the Area of Competence corresponding to the \u2018Management\u2019 of assets and resources.\u00a0 And regardless of levels of roles or scales of experience, each post relies in some way on the holistic and interdisciplinary standards in the IHBC\u2019s conservation accreditation.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Of course the private sector is responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources.\u00a0 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. And, in confirmation, this round we see Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture Ltd looking for an \u2018Experienced Built Heritage Consultant\u2019, HCUK Group for a Heritage Consultant \u2013 Director, and Janus Conservation Ltd: Historic Building Surveyor.<\/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 wider economic pressures \u2013 they diversity 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