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To help connect employers\u2019 needs and practitioners\u2019 skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our \u2018IHBC<\/em> Jobs<\/em> 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 support service!<\/h3>\n

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

\u2018Any IHBC NewsBlog or IHBC Jobs<\/em> etc.<\/em> listing ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special strategy in common: to secure the person they need, they target IHBC members and their skills, and our wide-ranging networks too.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Following the focus on skills in managing and caring for property and places at our Reading School last June, it\u2019s especially good to see ion this round the focus on facilities.\u00a0 So we have both Friends of Friendless Churches and Bristol\u2019s Trinity Community Arts looking to us for the best skills to fulfil their own charitable objects.\u00a0 As we expand these networks too, do be sure to pass on the word to your colleagues about the opportunities posted here.<\/p>\n

So, as the Friends of Friendless Churches seeks a Deputy Director, it also looks to us for an Estate Officer.\u00a0 Similarly Trinity Community Arts is looking to the IHBC to find a suitably skilled Heritage Facilities (Sites) Manager and a Facilities Assistant\/Caretaker. On the latter, it offers a useful reminder on how the skilled \u2018care\u2019 role on the coal-face of heritage places is as important to conservation outcomes as the most strategic posts!<\/p>\n

\u2018Of course our country\u2019s Councils, rightly, remain a core provider of heritage and conservation services.\u00a0 Following on from facilities-linked posts above, this IHBC<\/em> Jobs<\/em> etc.<\/em><\/a> round for Councils is distinguished by a broad spread of levels of seniority in place-care, as well as the usual diversity of skills targeted.<\/p>\n

\u2018At the more senior levels, Rother is looking for a Principal Conservation Officer and Waverley Borough a Senior Conservation Officer, while Sefton Council seeks a Senior Planning Officer (Conservation and Heritage).\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The IHBC\u2019s Conservation Cycle model \u2013 used in our accreditation as outlined below – is usefully mirrored in the spread of skills and roles in Councils too.\u00a0 Derbyshire takes a familiar if more \u2018intervention\u2019-led line, joining up \u2018Conservation and Urban Design\u2019 in their Officer\u2019s role.\u00a0 Charnwood goes to the other end of the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Cycle by seeking a \u2018Heritage Officer\u2019, a titular leaning to the \u2018Understanding\u2019 end of our Cycle.\u00a0 The Highland Council goes right to the Cycle\u2019s centre, and \u2018Management\u2019, as its post calls for the archetypal \u2018Conservation Planning Officer\u2019.<\/p>\n

The skills spread for ecclesiastical employers, as usual, complements well the expert skills sets of IHBC members.\u00a0 This round the Dioceses of Monmouth and Llandaff seeks a Church Buildings Surveyor, a role that will have a stronger focus on individual building assessments than those above, but will still need IHBC-linked skills that reach right across our Cycle.<\/p>\n

The private sector is relatively quiet this round, with Bidwells calling for an Architectural Technologist still on the books, perhaps a sign of the increased awareness of the need for higher standards and stronger expertise in conservation practice in this discipline.<\/p>\n

\u2018In the private sector, no less interesting is the seniority suggested in posts offered, as SLR seeks a Senior Built Heritage Consultant and HCUK Group\u2019s a Heritage Consultant \u2013 Senior\/Associate Director.<\/p>\n

\u2018Despite the lower numbers of opportunities than past rounds, all these postings confirm just how cost-effective the IHBC\u2019s Jobs etc<\/em> service actually is for a sector that is invariably populated by price-sensitive employers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018As noted above, this suite of postings re-affirms 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

\u2018Individually too, theses posts capture the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC\u2019s accreditation model, the IHBC\u2019s Conservation Cycle and our 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 will help you secure IHBC accreditation, guiding you on how to align your skills, knowledge and experience with the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, 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