Local Heritage Listing Engagement Officer
The Local Heritage List Project (LHLP) emerged from a national strategic initiative from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, that enabled a cohort of 22 areas across the UK to develop innovative solutions to creating and maintaining local lists of non-designated heritage assets.
Six local authorities across Cambridgeshire joined forces to undertake the project on behalf of the county and develop a strategic, cross-sector partnership approach across local authorities, businesses, landowners and members of the public. This post is the continuation of those activities.
This role is an engagement officer to support the Local Heritage List Project. The role will include a mix of coordinating with project partners, managing and training volunteers to deliver the community engagement objective to time, to budget and to high quality. The role would suit someone with community engagement experience who is keen to work in the heritage sector on projects related to the protection of the historic environment.
About you
To be successful in this role we are looking for someone who has:
* A good understanding and experience of British archaeology and vernacular architecture.
* A methodical approach to problem solving and record keeping.
* Is confident in working with local communities, having excellent communication skills and confident engaging with various audiences.
* Is pro-active and shows initiative to develop new ideas.
* Can manage workload effectively to meet strict deadlines while being a part of a dynamic and busy team.
* An awareness of the wider issues impacting the historic environment sector and willingness to contribute to ongoing developments and debate.
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:
* A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
* Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
* Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
* Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
* Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
* Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
* Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
* Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
* An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
Job Details
* Salary Frequency Annual
* Job Reference Ref/58057/6145
* Contract Type Part Time
* Contract Details Fixed term, 2 years
* Closing Date 03 May, 2025
* Job Category Archaeology
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