Employment Type Part time Fixed Term Contract until August 2026
Location Hybrid ·United Kingdom(multiple locations) Cambridgeshire · Swindon · Bristol, City of · York · Newcastle · Manchester · Birmingham hybrid working or remote working
Team Policy and Evidence - Sector Resilience and Skills
Seniority Junior
* Closing:11:59pm, 22nd May 2025 BST
Perks and benefits
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
Candidate happiness
7.97 (7929)
Job Description
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 our Skills Projects Coordinator.
This is a Fixed Term Contract until August 2026. Part Time, working 3 days per week to include Thursday and Friday (0.6 FTE).
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 - Swindon, Bristol, Cambridge, Newcastle, York, Manchester or Birmingham. We will consider remote working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 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
The Skills Projects Coordinator’s principal responsibility will be coordinating and administering skills development programmes for the heritage sector managed by Historic England. Working closely with the Skills and Training Placements Coordinator in Sector Resilience and Skills, and the Early Careers and Resourcing Coordinator in HR, you will have a particular focus on our Future Talent Programme, which provides tiered placements both inside and outside of Historic England, targeted at people from demographic groups currently under-represented in the heritage sector workforce.
Travel: whilst the majority of work will be desk-based, it is expected some travel across England will be required in this role.
Who we are looking for
Experience coordinating and administering people-centred projects
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Demonstrable ability to prioritise and deliver to deadlines
Good problem-solving skills and flexibility to respond to changing situations
Good written and verbal communication skills
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
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 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 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 recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.
Provisional interview dates: 19th May 2025
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