Job Description
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Historic Places Adviser.
This is a Full time, Permanent post based in Manchester, Newcastle or York with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 28% 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.
What you will be doing
You will work with local authorities and partners to support the development of investable place-based projects which will improve people’s lives by preserving or enhancing conservation areas, or repurposing and sustaining other heritage assets. You will make full use of our expertise to add value to proposals, so that they can deliver well against funding scheme criteria and national planning policy objectives.
Operating across the North you will identify and manage relationships with key local influencers and delivery agents, including those outside local authorities and the heritage sector. You will encourage them to champion our work, develop collaborative projects and inspire them to look after and invest in the historic environment. With a particular focus on brownfield housing, you will identify and unlock housing opportunities within heritage buildings and historic places; work with colleagues to build the regional relationship with organisations involved in delivering homes across the North, and build a network within the development sector, working with colleagues to promote positive regional case studies of heritage-led housing delivery.
Please note that the role:
* requires regular travel to sites not serviced by public transport.
* will require occasional attendance at community meetings which are usually held at evenings or weekends.
Who we are looking for
* A degree or equivalent experience in planning, urban design or a relevant discipline
* Evidenced experience of managing positive change in places
* Experience of working constructively with local authorities, community organisations and developers
* An understanding of the National Planning Policy Framework and its application to the historic environment
* Specialist knowledge of applying urban design principles to area-based strategies