Part Time National Programme Officer

4 days ago

York, United Kingdom Historic England Full time

**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 join us as our National Programme Officer.

**This is a Part Time (18 hours a week), Fixed-Term Contract until 31st March 2026.**

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) and Cambridge.

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.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.

**What you will be doing**

As our National Programme Officer, you will work with the National Programme Manager to provide a central Programme Management Office (PMO) function to enable delivery of the Heritage at Risk Capital Fund. Working in close collaboration with colleagues across the organisation, the role will lead a team providing central PMO in compliance with Government Functional Standard GovS002 Project Delivery.

The role sits within Business Improvement Group, a dynamic part of Historic England committed to enabling innovative delivery, developing HE as an organisation and focusing its performance.

**Who we are looking for**
- Proven experience of supporting and/or planning and managing programmes or projects
- Shows initiative and is proactive in supporting projects/programmes and their colleagues
- Strong IT skills
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Able to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Highly organised and forward planning their workload to meet tight deadlines

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**

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

Provisional interview dates: w/c 31st March 2025

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

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £31,361.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Work Location: Hybrid remote in York YO1 6WP

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