Technical Manager (MDE Heritage Accelerator)

HISTORIC ENGLAND; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national heritage organization in Greater Manchester is seeking a Technical Manager for a fixed-term contract to enhance marine data with heritage information. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in marine or heritage data, proven project management skills, and technical knowledge in seabed survey systems. Join a dynamic team committed to promoting equality and diversity in the workplace.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme (28%)

28 days holiday

Corporate discounts

Free entry into English Heritage sites

Qualifications

• Extensive experience working with marine or heritage data, including large datasets.
• Demonstrable experience managing major quality-driven projects.
• Detailed knowledge of seabed survey systems and their data processing.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the MDE Heritage Accelerator project.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the project.
• Enhance the National Marine Heritage Record for informed decision-making.

Skills

Marine or heritage data

Managing multi-year projects

Technical problem solving

Knowledge of seabed survey systems

Understanding of UK marine heritage standards

Education

Relevant qualification in a relevant subject

Job description

Summary

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 has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Technical Manager (MDE Heritage Accelerator).

This is a Full Time, Fixed-Term Contract until March 2027.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitivepension scheme starting at 28% 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

As our Technical Manager you will provide technical leadership and day-to-day management of a new, innovative project to enrich the Crown Estate’s Marine Data Exchange (MDE) with heritage information generated by marine development. The MDE Heritage Accelerator project will simultaneously enhance the National Marine Heritage Record (NMHR) to enable better and faster decision-making in delivering clean energy offshore. The project is funded through the Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Evidence & Change (OWEC) programme.

Who we are looking for

• Extensive experience of working with marine or heritage data in a professional context, including large datasets
• Relevant qualification (s) or equivalent experience in a relevant subject
• Demonstrable experience of managing major multi-year quality-driven projects with complex technical and methodological challenges
• Detailed knowledge of seabed survey systems commonly used in UK marine heritage, including their resulting data and its processing and interpretation
• Detailed knowledge of UK frameworks, standards and lexicons used in processing, interpreting, and recording marine data, heritage assets, interventions, and sources
• Entrepreneurial and flexible – able to creatively problem solve

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 [e-mail] 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: virtual - w/c 22nd September 2025

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/ykmaeed3/technical-manager-mde-heritage-accelerator.odt