Heritage Place Manager

About this job

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Council’s Culture and Heritage Service as the Heritage Place Manager. As a Senior Project Manager working within the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector, you will manage a portfolio of projects and The National Lottery Heritage Fund bids, ensuring delivery within time, cost, and quality standards as part of the wider Heritage Place Programme.

You will line manage the Heritage Engagement Officer and work closely with the Culture and Heritage team of colleagues, partners, stakeholders, Heritage Lottery Fund and funders contributing to the development of a focused approach to Barking and Dagenham's new designation as a Heritage Place.

Your role includes managing and delivering projects, developing and co-ordinating new Heritage Lottery Fund bids, scoping project requirements, conducting procurement and cost analysis, and ensuring compliance with council policies, legislation and funders.

Your role will provide written bids, co-ordination, evaluation and specialist reporting to the Heritage Lottery Fund, and integrate compliance practices into project planning.

Additionally, you will establish and monitor KPIs, implement quality control measures, oversee management processes, internal and external stakeholder engagement. Regularly attending and scheduling stakeholder meetings, you will ensure project performance and delivery align with financial and funding management frameworks.

This role is based at Eastbury Manor House, Eastbury Square, London IG11 9SN
. A necessary component of this role includes cross site working, including at our Culture and Heritage sites. Weekend and occasional evening working is also required.

This job is pro rata 4 days per week (including weekend working)

This new post is part of the Borough’s designation as a Heritage Place by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The Heritage Places Initiative is a long-term, strategic investment in up to 20 different places across the UK as set out in the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Heritage 2033 strategy. The aim is to make heritage integral to plans that are making local areas better places to live, work and visit.

Barking and Dagenham was part of six new Heritage Places announced in October 2025, joining a previous nine other areas, towns and cities which were announced in 2023, to deliver transformational projects and programmes over the next 8-10years:

• Barking and Dagenham,
• London Belfast Historic Waterfront, Northern Ireland
• Dudley, West Midlands
• Orkney Islands, Scotland
• Tameside, Greater Manchester
• Ynys Môn (Isle of Anglesey), North Wales

We seek exceptional applicants who will manage a new programme of projects, Heritage Lottery Fund bids and Borough wide engagement. We seek applicants who align with our Culture and Heritage Strategy, who embody our organisational DRIVE values and are passionate about serving our borough’s residents and communities through culture and heritage.

With a degree and experience in the fields of Arts, Culture and Heritage project management, you possess detailed knowledge of the Arts and Heritage sector, including working with funding bodies such as The Heritage Lottery Fund.

You bring at least 5 years of extensive experience in commissioning, managing and written evaluation of projects and programmes in an arts or heritage setting. You have a proven track record of successfully managing and delivering arts and heritage projects within the public sector and have a thorough understanding of project planning, procurement and stakeholder engagement, being able to work closely with a range of partners.

Your ability to negotiate and influence successful outcomes with a wide range of partners, and to commission and monitor…