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… making a difference to peoples’ recognition of the need for conservation standards…

IHBC Director Sean O’Reilly said: ‘Our NewsBlog updates on career opportunities posted on the ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service demonstrate the huge variety of roles that employers are looking to us to help fill.’

‘Any NewsBlog Jobs etc. update ranges widely across sectors, skills, employers, locations and roles, but all have one special consideration in common: they target IHBC members, their skills and our networks to secure the right profile they need, of competence, knowledge and experience in conservation and related discipline and roles.’

‘The current round of postings is very select but highlights even more effectively the need both for strategic advisory roles and on-the-ground practice and support-focussed skills in building and area conservation.

Overall, though, in this round the usual national and local regulatory and advisory employers seek more traditional roles in their posts.  Obviously the core skills profiles align no less well with the more historic standards in the IHBC’s skills models.’

Headline posts this round include to senior and substantial posts from Historic Environment Scotland (HES): a Head of Technical Education & Training and an Estates Strategist.  These alone demonstrate the breadth of roles to which the IHBC’s competences, standards and conservation skills sets are critical.

Equally, the Historic Royal Palaces’ call for a Project Manager and The Church of England’s (CoE) call for a See Houses Projects Manager together encapsulate how estates with substantial heritage considerations are increasingly recognising the importance of including dedicated conservation skills sets across their heritage resources.

At the same time Historic England, with its call for a  Historic Environment Planning Adviser; the Commonwealth Heritage Forum though it call for a Consultant Training & Skills Coordinator, and Hatfield Park’s call for a Senior Building Surveyor all look to the IHBC’s skills framework too.  These confirm that whatever area of practice a person might specialise – from planning to training – the work of the IHBC with the wider heritage sector is really making a difference to peoples’ recognition of the need for conservation standards in all our places, regardless of age.

‘Councils are continually seeking the right skills from IHBC’s members too, as may be expected, especially given our shared public duties and our own charitable standing and priorities.’

This round the selection is small, but perfectly profiled, as the Test Valley, Bromsgrove & Redditch and Shropshire seek  Conservation Officers – the role within which the IHBC’s practice-based competences first evolved – and Plymouth calls for an Historic Environment Officer, a more generic title but one no less reliant on the holistic and interdisciplinary standards in the IHBC’s conservation accreditation.

That diversification of titles and nuancing of roles is also well reflected in two other potentially quite different posts that also recognise the IHBC’s conservation framework of standards and skills: Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust’s Architectural Adviser and Archaeology South-East /UCL’s Archaeologist (Supervisor, Historic Buildings).

‘Of course the private sector is responsible for the care and curation of the vast majority of our heritage resources. So it is both gratifying and heartening to see the high regard for our standards across some of the best of the more commercially-focussed operations.  For this round RPS seeks a Director/Senior Director (Built Heritage}; Heritage Architecture Ltd an ‘Experienced Built Heritage & Townscape Consultant’ and LUC an Historic Environment Consultant /Senior Consultant.

If the scale of posts on our ‘Jobs etc’  service just now is less dramatic than in more recent years – reflecting as it does the wider economic downturn – they still capture well the exceptionally wide spectrum of relevant roles encompassed by the IHBC’s accreditation model, the IHBC Areas of Competence, and the skills represented there.’

‘To find out more on such matters, our MATE  and related sessions support accreditation, while they also delve into the IHBC’s Competences and Conservation Cycle.  As such they help applicants’ align their skills to the principles we use to assess interdisciplinary competence, all in line with national and international conservation practice standards.’

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