Description

Development Advice Team Leader

Location: York - we offer hybrid working where you are based in the office (subject to desk availability) and at home.

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £39,500 pro-rata plus generous benefits

Reference No: 10181

Final applications 20 March 2022

Description

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a solution-focused leader to manage our York-based Development Advice Team. You will help to shape our historic places, from high streets to henges and mill towns to battlefields. No day will be the same, but every day will be stimulating and rewarding.

What you will be doing

You will lead the team`s provision of pre- and post-application advice to help people sustain the significance of historic places, ensuring the team engages when we can add most public value. You will also support other work objectives, such as our Heritage Action Zones programme. You will play a key role on our Leadership Team, which manages our 60 staff across the North East and Yorkshire.

What we are looking for

-To be successful in this role, you will have an excellent track record in leading and performance managing a dynamic and multi-skilled team.
-You will be an inspiring communicator who is able to use their negotiating and influencing skills to drive positive outcomes and sustain constructive relationships with external stakeholders such as local authorities, owners and developers.
- As a member of the Region`s Leadership Team, you will require strong team working skills in collaborative and creative problem solving.
- You should have broad and extensive experience of managing change to heritage assets through the planning system, including new development in historic places.

Please note to reference to the key essential skills in the advert when you are completing your application and highlight your related knowledge, skills and experienced based on these.

This is a permanent opportunity based in our York office. We are also open to hybrid working where you will be based in both the office and home.

Interviews will likely take place w/b 28 March either virtually or at our offices in York. If you would like an informal chat about the role, please speak to Trevor Mitchell on 01904 601991.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme, 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites as well as flexibility to create a strong work-life balance.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability, 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.

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

Poster information:

Name:HISTORIC ENGLAND

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