Heritage Advisor

Overview

Join Our Team:
Heritage Advisor. We’re excited to welcome a new Heritage Advisor at our East Midlands location. Closing date: 8 April. Interview Date: week commencing 20 April. Interviews will be held face to face in Newark.

Navigate your future and lock in your career as we keep our canals open and alive.

Working Hours & Location

Part time 22.5 hours per week. Home working, with a reporting location of Newark. The role will cover the network in the East Midlands. Candidates should be based in the Midlands or within reasonable travelling distance, as the role involves frequent travel across the region. As the role is Midlands-based, regular attendance in Birmingham will also be required.

The Heritage and Collections team works to support the Trust’s wider mission by conserving and enhancing the heritage of the inland waterway network. The team seeks practical and innovative ways to balance the modern use of the waterways with their historical significance, while meeting the Trust’s legal responsibilities and strategic priorities through sustainable development, conservation, and the improvement of the built environment.

Working alongside the Heritage Team Manager (Midlands), the postholder will provide technical heritage support to colleagues across multiple teams, including asset engineers, geotechnical specialists, project managers, contract managers, contractors, community engagement managers, and the communications team. Responsibilities will include reviewing environmental appraisals, advising on planning requirements and appropriate mitigation, and collaborating with conservation officers and heritage stakeholders.

• Provide informed advice, guidance and support to the Trust departments, covering heritage assets and the wider historic environment to ensure high standards of repair and conservation.
• Support the delivery of heritage policy and projects.
• In line with internal consultation and referral procedures, provide informed advice to the National Spatial Planning Team on relevant consultations, the identification of local assets for protection through local planning policies, and the impact and acceptability, in relevant legal and policy terms of third party development proposals on designated and non designated waterway heritage assets.
• Perform research, site visits, assessments and recording of heritage assets, identify impacts on the historic environment and report heritage incidents.
• Negotiate heritage consents, monitor heritage works, demonstrate best conservation practice and ensure works are legally compliant, to safeguard the reputation of the Trust.
• Deliver awareness-raising training, toolbox talks and facilitate practical training for the Trust staff, volunteers, contractors and stakeholder or community groups.
• Work with the Trusts fundraising and Enterprise teams to help secure additional resources for the Trust.
• Work with volunteers within their area of expertise. Act as focal point with specific knowledge of a heritage specialism for the Trust.
• Commission and instruct heritage consultants to carry out specified works or written heritage assessments, surveys or other reports as required for the Trust projects or works.
• Comply with international, national and the Trusts heritage policy and standards to ensure the Trusts heritage advice and support service is up to date and effective.
• Use the Trusts business systems and ensure all relevant information and heritage reporting data is input in a timely, consistent and accurate manner.
• Display the Trust values and behaviours at all times.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion are integrated into all aspects of Trust life and promoting inclusion by challenging behaviours, practices actions or decisions that are counter to the objectives of the Trusts policies and behaviours.

This role sits within the Heritage and Collections team, and we are looking for a professional with experience in the heritage sector and a strong understanding of both the practical and regulatory aspects of built heritage conservation. This expertise should be supported by a genuine passion for the subject. The successful…