Marine Historic Environment Record Officer

Consortium; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (defined benefit)

Holidays 28 days

Discounts

Free English Heritage site entry

Development opportunities

Job summary

Historic England in Swindon is seeking a Marine Historic Environment Record Officer on a maternity cover basis. The role is full-time with hybrid working and will maintain the Marine HER while providing specialist customer service to researchers, partners and the public.

You will analyse data from the Marine HER and related datasets, support policy development, and help ensure access to reliable information across HE and external users.

Qualifications

• Relevant subject matter expertise
• Experience of using databases, spreadsheets and GIS
• Collaborative and team working
• Customer service experience
• Ability to time manage and work to deadline
• Communication skills

Responsibilities

• Maintain the Marine Historic Environment Record (Marine HER) and provide information to support research and policy development.
• Ensure that Historic England, partners and the public have access to accurate and reliable information about the marine historic environment.
• Assist the Marine HER Manager in data analysis and interpretation of Marine HER and related datasets.
• Provide specialist customer service for internal and external users of the Marine HER.

Skills

Subject matter expertise

Databases

Spreadsheets

GIS

Collaborative work

Customer service

Tools

Databases

Spreadsheets

GIS

Job description

Marine Historic Environment Record Officer

Location: Swindon, UK

Job Type: Full-time, Fixed Term

Highlighted points for this job

Maternity Cover contract role

Location: Swindon with hybrid working

Role involves maintaining the Marine Heritage Environment Record and providing specialist customer service

Requirement for relevant subject matter expertise and experience with databases, spreadsheets, and GIS

Job encourages applications from underrepresented groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates

Provisional interview dates: 23rd November 2026

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 Marine Historic Environment Record Officer.

This is a Maternity Cover contract.

The location of this role is Swindon, inclusive with hybrid working.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension 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.

What you will be doing

As Marine Historic Environment Record (HER) Officer, you will help maintain the Marine Heritage Environment Record (Marine HER) and provide information to support research and the preparation of policies and proposals for the management of sustainable change in the marine historic environment. You will work to ensure that Historic England (HE), its partners and members of the public have access to accurate and reliable information about the marine historic environment.

You will also assist the Marine HER Manager in the analysis and interpretation of data relating to the marine historic environment, as well as other relevant datasets, and will help provide a specialist customer service for internal and external users of the Marine HER.

Who we are looking for

• Relevant subject matter expertise
• Experience of using databases, spreadsheets and GIS
• Collaborative and team working
• Customer service experience
• Ability to time manage and work to deadline
• Communication skills

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.

Provisional interview dates: 23rd November 2026