{"id":39234,"date":"2024-03-01T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39234"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:37:20","slug":"serious-about-your-career-sign-up-to-ihbcs-jobs-etc-for-diverse-opportunities-across-roles-and-disciplines-spotlighting-building-and-estate-care-for-ihbcreadin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=39234","title":{"rendered":"Serious about your career? Sign up to IHBC\u2019s \u2018Jobs etc.\u2019, for diverse opportunities across roles and disciplines \u2013 spotlighting building and estate care 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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IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018Our regular 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

\u2026 posts typically range widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\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 and the conservation-linked 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 public-service and public-facing employers with building, area and estate care responsibilities that can entail specialist heritage skills sets, notably Head of Parks and Estates at Wallingford Town Council; the Assistant Curator (Historic Buildings) at Historic Royal Palaces and the Cathedral and Major Churches Officer at The Church of England & National Church Institutions, as well as for Diocese of Oxford a Senior Church Buildings Officer, the Heritage Officer for Bannau Brycheiniog\/ Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and the Facilities Manager at\u00a0The Historic Dockyard, Chatham.<\/p>\n

\u2018Also encompassed within our linked-skills model is the practical, management-led, building- and area-focussed skills sets that lie at the heart of the IHBC\u2019s holistic conservation of buildings and areas.\u00a0 Here one national player clearly leads the way in this round, as Historic England seeks a Head of Heritage Protection, as well as a Heritage at Risk Architect\/Surveyor and a Heritage At Risk Project Officer.<\/p>\n

\u2018More local advisory and regulatory public service roles also tie structurally into the IHBC\u2019s conservation skills and competence model, not least given our historic links to local government conservation.\u00a0\u00a0 Though the IHBC now represents a much wider constituency of members than conservation officers, those principles are vibrant and resonant, and evident especially in the ongoing prominence across our Jobs etc.<\/em> service of conservation-related posts in local government.\u00a0 For this round these include calls from Maidstone (Principal Conservation Officer), Waverley (Conservation Officer) and Wakefield (Heritage Development Manager).<\/p>\n

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

\u2018At the same time, the consultation and community engagement that looks across to our local government roots is also evident in posts linked to the management and care of church estates and places of worship.\u00a0 For example the National Churches Trust seeks Interim Cherish Project Manager and The Diocese of Leicester a Historic Churches Support Officer.<\/p>\n

Informed advocacy is also a critical thread in our members\u2019 skills sets, and in that context it is a special privilege to carry SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage call for a Senior Conservation Officer!<\/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 also gratifying and heartening to see the high regard for our standards across so many of the best of the more commercially-focussed operations. In confirmation, this round we see Iceni Projects calling for Consultant\/ Graduate Consultant roles in Built Heritage and Townscape; Alastair Coey Architects in Norther Ireland seeking a Conservation Architect; Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture Ltd seeking an Historic Building Consultant and an Experienced Built Heritage Consultant; HCUK Group an Archaeological Consultant; Fuller Long \u2013 HEA: Senior Heritage Consultant; Smith Jenkins a Heritage & Townscape Consultant \/ Assistant Consultant; Hutton + Rostron: Construction Defect Surveyor and Remedial Design Consultant and a Specialist Building Surveyor 08\/02\/2024.<\/p>\n

\u2018Altogether these posts show how wide-ranging is the appreciation of our services.\u00a0 Estate-holding bodies with heritage interests, just as much as local authorities and national advisory and regulatory bodies, as well as advocacy and amenity bodies, can recognise the great value \u2013 and, for directors and trustees, the comfort \u2013 of accessing dedicated IHBC-modelled conservation skills through our Jobs Etc<\/em>. service.<\/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