Heritage Consultant

About the Role

Founded in Sheffield over 30 years ago, Cura Terrae’s Land and Nature division, formerly Ecus, has been at the forefront of the environmental sector, evolving alongside society’s changing environmental needs. In 2022, we became an integral part of Cura Terrae, a leading UK environmental group dedicated to providing innovative consultancy, services and solutions aimed at protecting the Earth. We have a wide range of professional and technical expertise and provide heritage consultancy, geophysics, ecology, sustainability, BNG, landscape, arboriculture archaeology, EIA and post‑excavation services to a diverse and growing client base.

Cura Terrae Land and Nature is a Registered Organisation of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and operates under a Quality Management System certified to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018.

We are recruiting for a Heritage Consultant to join our established heritage team. The role will allow you to undertake desk‑based assessments, heritage statements and setting assessments, and contribute to the preparation of multi‑disciplinary consultancy documents for a wide range of projects.

Based in our Basingstoke office, the role offers an exciting opportunity to develop and grow your expertise within a company that values high professional standards. There will be opportunities for training, progression and a clear career path.

Candidates will be expected to have strong subject knowledge and demonstrable skills and experience in assessing the historic environment.

The successful candidate will work under the supervision of our Senior Heritage Consultant, who will provide continual support and guidance. The post‑holder will be responsible for concurrent projects and for the commercial success of their work. Candidates should expect to work in a variety of outdoor and indoor environments and away from the office, including site visits to remote locations.

• Relevant degree in heritage
• Experience working with all aspects of the historic environment, including historic buildings and landscapes
• Proven report writing skills
• Experience preparing assessments of heritage significance and setting
• Experience of a variety of clients and projects
• Membership of a relevant professional body
• Working knowledge of national legislation and planning policy in respect to the historic environment and related professional standards and guidance
• Experience in the use of GIS (advantageous)
• Self‑motivated with ability to multi‑task and work proactively and flexibly in support of changing workloads
• Strong communicator
• Full driving licence and willingness to drive

• A competitive salary
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Additional days holiday per year worked (up to 5 additional days) after 2 years’ service
• Company matched pension scheme
• Employee perks scheme
• ‘Health Cash Plan’ including access to face‑to‑face counselling
• Hybrid / flexible working, including “flex‑from‑first”
• Regional and company‑wide events
• Career development and progression (Professional Membership(s) paid)
• Cycle to work scheme & car salary sacrifice scheme
• Volunteer days and matched charity fundraising

We are proud of our innovative nature, customer focus and drive to continually improve. We put people at the heart of what we do and employ more than 160 individuals throughout a network of 10 regional offices. We have a strong focus around the natural and earth sciences and can provide a service which blends key skills in the historic environment, ecology, landscape and arboricultural disciplines with environmental planning and management to reimagine projects and benefit sites.

With over 30 years of experience, our areas of expertise include:

• Historic Environment
• Ecology
• Environmental planning and consenting
• Landscape
• Carbon management
• Arboriculture
• Water consultancy
• Air quality
• Habitats creation

We are framework suppliers too and have long‑term contracts with many of the major players in the transport infrastructure sector, residential and commercial land developers, energy providers and utilities, regulators and government as well as national conservation bodies,…