Historic England

Location:

Bristol York Birmingham Manchester Swindon Cambridge Portsmouth Newcastle upon Tyne

Job Type:
Fixed Term, Full-time

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Economic Analyst.

This is a Full Time, 2 Year Fixed-Term Contract.

The location of this role is either Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) or Cambridge, inclusive with hybrid working.

Salary

National: £33,594 - £34,150 pro-rata

Cambridge: £37,826 - £40,000 pro-rata

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

• competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions
• a generous 28 days holiday
• corporate discounts
• free entry into English Heritage sites across the country
• development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals

This is a specialist analytical role working formally with the Senior Economist to provide economic analysis and to conduct and manage economic research on behalf of Historic England and the wider heritage sector.

You will use your economic and econometric skills to contribute to developing our approach to economic measurement of the historic environment, particular in relation to the Culture and Heritage Capital approach and impact evaluation. Your research and insight will be strongly guided by current government guidelines such as the Green Book and Magenta Book.

The role combines technical and analytical rigour with strong communication and project delivery skills. You will help to make the case for the historic environment through published advocacy-focused research, Heritage Counts and other appropriate routes. You will help to ensure that economic evidence is influential across key audiences from HM Treasury and DCMS to local stakeholders, and ensure evidence is communicated clearly, efficiently and accessibly.

• Completion of relevant degree or significant relevant experience.
• An understanding of economic research methods and techniques
• Econometric knowledge
• Good administrative skills
• Ability to summarise and communicate data

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page, or contact us at recruitment if you have any recruitment queries.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time…