Public Engagement Team Assistant (2024)

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 have a fantastic opportunity for you to become our Public Engagement Team Assistant, joining us as part of our Public Engagement Strategic Events and Portfolio team.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland), Cambridge and London.

Salary

National: £23,363 pro-rata

Cambridge: £24,978 pro-rata

What you will be doing

As part of the Public Engagement Strategic Events and Portfolio team you will ensure the Group has excellent administration in all areas of the business.

Focusing on helping develop and improve the Public Engagement Portfolio Hub.You will maintain the Group’s diary of activity, administration around work flows and the process for prioritising and tracking work requests through to completion.

You will provide administrative support to specific projects and campaigns, arrange meetings, take minutes and track actions.As an active member of the Strategic Events and Portfolio team, you will support the Group Director and the Head of Strategic Events and Portfolio as well as covering for the Group Executive Assistant and help with finance processes such as raising purchase orders and helping with setting up suppliers.

Who we are looking for

• Experience of office administration and working in a fast-paced office environment

• A high standard of accuracy and attention to detail

• Strong communication skills, with experience of dealing with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

• Excellent skills using Outlook, Word and Teams and good knowledge of other Microsoft 365 packages

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 circ*mstances. 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 offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension 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.

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 recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: 17th and 18th September 2024 - Virtual

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

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/jtnb0yvi/public-engagement-team-assistant.odt