Assistant Listing Adviser

Historic England; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension scheme

28 days holiday

Corporate discounts

Free entry to English Heritage sites

Development opportunities

Job summary

Historic England invites applications for the role of Assistant Listing Adviser in Bristol. This full-time position involves assessing historic buildings and providing critical advice to government entities on their heritage significance. The role offers a competitive salary, a generous benefits package, and opportunities for professional development in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Good degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to assess significance in historic contexts.
• Knowledge of architectural history, archaeology, or landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice on historic buildings and sites.
• Assess applications for listing on the National Heritage List.
• Deliver timely and accurate advice to Government.

Skills

Analysis

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Good degree in a relevant subject

Job description

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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 Assistant Listing Adviser.

This is a Full Time, Permanent position. The location of this role is Bristol, we offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home.

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 purpose of this role is to produce specialist advice and recommendations to Government on whether to include a historic building, archaeological site or designed landscape on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). This includes advice on the listing of buildings, scheduling of monuments and registering of parks, gardens and battlefields.

As our Assistant Listing Adviser, you will assess applications made for historic buildings or archaeological sites or designed landscapes to be included on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE) and provide timely and accurate advice to Government. You will carry out a range of assessments on responsive casework, following applications from members of the public, Enhanced Advisory Services (EAS) cases and strategic projects to agreed targets and deadlines.

Who we are looking for

• Good degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent experience)
• An ability to recognise, analyse and assess the significance of components of the historic environment
• Knowledge of a specialist aspect of the historic environment such as architectural and building history, archaeology or designed landscapes
• The ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with colleagues, external partners and stakeholders.
• A clean, full driving licence

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 [e-mail] 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 June 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting

• Industries

  Government Administration

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