Senior Building Conservation Advisor

Employment Type

Part time Permanent, 21.6 hours a week

Location On site
· United Kingdom(multiple locations) London
· Cambridge
· Portsmouth
· Bristol
· Swindon
· Birmingham
· Manchester
· York
· Newcastle National - We offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home

Team Policy and Evidence - National Specialist Services

Seniority Mid-level

• Closing:11:59pm, 8th Mar 2026 GMT

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Team lunches

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

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Summary

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 a Senior Building Conservation Advisor as part of our Technical Conservation Team to support the team’s role as a centre of specialist knowledge and research in the conservation of historic buildings. We are looking for a good team player with wide experience in applied building conservation, combined with intellectual curiosity and a creative approach to problem solving, to help deliver our evidence-based advice and guidance on caring for the built heritage.

Within the team’s wider role, we are seeking a candidate specialising in mortars, plasters and renders in conservation, and conservation of earthen materials.

This is a unique opportunity to join a small, highly motivated and high-achieving team working alongside colleagues and industry experts with a wealth of knowledge at their fingertips.

This is a Part Time, Permanent position working 21.6 hours a week.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, London, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.

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.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here .

What you will be doing

As a member of the Building Conservation & Designed Landscape Team in Technical Conservation, you will provide specialist technical advice on conserving, repairing, maintaining and adapting a vast range of heritage assets, from the humblest vernacular structures to some of the most significant historic buildings and sites in the country, including those managed by English Heritage. You will also help to develop guidance on appropriate methods of conserving the historic built environment by commissioning and managing applied research projects, carrying out and organising specialist training and producing and disseminating technical advice and guidance for a range of audiences, including conservation professionals and non-professionals.

You will provide expert input to our technical advice, guidance development and research on mortars, plasters, renders and earthen materials.

The work is highly varied, and no two days are the same; one day, you might be on site, to advise on mortars for conservation of a ruined site, and the next day you might be in a meeting with scientists, helping to design a research methodology for evaluating traditional solutions to driving rain penetration, or be attending a conference to present our research or guidance.

Please note

The role will involve travel to local offices and locations throughout England, often to sites that are inaccessible by public transport, so it is essential that you have a current driving licence that is valid in the UK.

Due to the national remit of the role, attendance at meetings and site visits will often involve overnight stays, sometimes of more than one consecutive night.

The role will also…