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 are Climate Change Programme Officer.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with the Head of Major Projects to oversee and assist the delivery of Historic England’s Climate Change Programme. This vital work will not only help Historic England reach Net Zero but will be instrumental in both assisting the sector to reach Net Zero and ensuring that heritage plays an important role in the global fight to limit climate change and its impact on people and places.

Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2025

The role is based in one of our National offices - we offer hybrid working where you will based in the office and at home.

Salary:

National salary range - £28,856 pro-rata

Greater London + salary range - £31,920 pro-rata

Inner London salary range - £33,463 pro-rata

What you will be doing:

You will be working with the Head of Major Projects, and Climate Change Programme Senior Responsible Owners to facilitate the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Historic England’s Climate Change Programmes;

We need you to Lead on, initiate and deliver discrete projects as agreed with the Head of Major Projects.

You will be responsible for key tasks within the planning and delivery and monitoring of projects, their budget and schedule, including the production of progress reports, and feeding into delivery meetings;

Assist the external reporting of Historic England’s Climate Change commitments, ensuring that reporting is both timely and consistent

Be a key point of contact across both our internal and external facing Climate Change work and and provide information and advice to colleagues, escalating enquiries where appropriate;

Identifying, logging and escalating programme and project risks and issues and for assisting the management of interdependencies within the projects;

You will liaise with colleagues to identify and coordinate delivery against key milestones and help ensure that delivery remains aligned to Historic England’s corporate priorities for Climate Change;

Ensure effective internal communications and information sharing across the Programme, including replying promptly to queries from internal and external stakeholders, escalating where appropriate, and contributing to any internal communications;

Provide colleagues across Historic England with assistance in managing projects and programmes as required and be an effective advocate for project and programme management.

Who we are looking for:

• Demonstrable experience of assisting quality delivery in projects and/or programmes

• Experience of implementing project and/ or programme management techniques and approaches

• Experience of managing and processing large, complex data sets and conducting data analysis

• Good IT skills

• Ability to work on own initiative, switch between multiple projects while prioritising appropriately, and manage challenging deadlines

• Ability to communicate complex information to a diverse audience in writing and verbally

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 offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme, 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.

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 offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 26% 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.

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 candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at ResourcingTeam@Historicengland.org.uk or telephone 07763387811 if you have any recruitment queries. 

Provisional virtual interview date: 7th June 2023

Please click on the following link for a copy of the full Job Description.

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