Learning Team Leader

HISTORIC ENGLAND; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined benefit pension 28.97% (employ

28 days holiday

Corporate discounts

Free entry to English Heritage sites

Development opportunities

Job summary

Historic England is recruiting a Learning Team Leader to drive the Heritage Schools Programme and lead a high-performing team, delivering high-quality outcomes for pupils, teachers and schools.

The role offers hybrid working across multiple locations in England, with a 2-year fixed-term contract and a comprehensive benefits package including a generous pension, holidays and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-performing teams within education or heritage environments.
• Strong knowledge of learning, participation and engagement practices in schools.
• Experience managing complex programmes delivered through multiple partners.
• Excellent relationship-building, influencing and communication skills.
• Understanding of impact evaluation approaches and using evidence for decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for Historic England's Learning Team and the Heritage Schools Programme.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, oversee commissioned delivery, and build partnerships across the heritage and education sectors.
• Ensure evidence, learning and financial sustainability drive continuous improvement and future development.

Skills

Team leadership

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Education partnerships

Impact evaluation

Job description

Summary

Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Learning Team Leader.

This is full time, 2 year fixed-term contract position.

The location of this role is either Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) or Cambridge, inclusive with hybrid working.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefitpension scheme to which we make 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

To provide leadership for Historic England's Learning Team and our flagship Heritage Schools Programme, ensuring high quality outcomes for children, young people and teachers, demonstrating impact and contributing to Historic England's strategic priorities, including helping young people understand routes into heritage careers and develop relevant skills.

You will lead and develop a high performing team, oversee commissioned delivery, build effective partnerships across the heritage and education sectors, and ensure that evidence, learning and financial sustainability drive continuous improvement and future development.

Who we are looking for

• Successful experience of leading and developing experienced high performing teams
• Strong understanding of learning, participation and engagement practice, including how heritage supports delivery of the curriculum in schools in England
• Experience of managing complex programmes, projects or services delivered through multiple partners, including commissioning external services and managing contracts
• Excellent relationship-building, influencing, communication and interpersonal skills
• Understanding of impact evaluation approaches and the use of evidence to inform decision-making.

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page, or contact us at [e-mail] if you have any recruitment queries.

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 won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, 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 wants 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.

At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.

Provisional interview dates: 21st September 2026

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

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/pnciaetr/zw-learning-team-leader-jd-aug-2026.odt