Assistant Listing Adviser

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We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Assistant Listing Adviser.

This is a Full Time, Permanent position. The location of this role is Bristol, we offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting % 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.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here
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What you will be doing

The purpose of this role is to produce specialist advice and recommendations to Government on whether to include a historic building, archaeological site or designed landscape on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). This includes advice on the listing of buildings, scheduling of monuments and registering of parks, gardens and battlefields.

As our Assistant Listing Adviser, you will assess applications made for historic buildings or archaeological sites or designed landscapes to be included on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) and provide timely and accurate advice to Government. You will carry out a range of assessments on responsive casework, following applications from members of the public, Enhanced Advisory Services (EAS) cases and strategic projects to agreed targets and deadlines.

Who we are looking for

• Good degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
• An ability to recognise, analyse and assess the significance of components of the historic environment
• Knowledge of a specialist aspect of the historic environment such as architectural and building history, archaeology or designed landscapes
• The ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with colleagues, external partners and stakeholders.
• A clean, full driving licence

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

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 just won the Gold Award from MIND, 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 working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic…