Project Officer - Externally Funded Projects

Hybrid (Birmingham, UK) Historic England

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 have multiple opportunities for you to join us as our Project Officers - Externally Funded Projects. - Midlands.

These roles are Fixed-term contract until March 2030.

The location of this role is Birmingham, 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.

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

What you will be doing

As part of Historic England’s Regions Group, the postholder will be a member of the regional Historic Places Regeneration Team, providing support in the delivery of our externally funded projects, including our Heritage at Risk Capital Fund and Places of Worship Renewal Fund, to March 2030.

This involves coordinating delivery of new Places of Worship and Heritage at Risk capital repair grant projects across your specific Historic England Region. Supporting projects through liaison, initiation, development, delivery, monitoring, closure and evaluation, both internally and with external stakeholders.

Who we are looking for

• Knowledge of the historic environment and experience of managing and monitoring projects whilst maintaining a focus on delivery and quality

• Experience of electronic data management, analysis and presentation

• Good ICT skills including experience of varied systems including Microsoft applications

• A proven track record in developing positive and effective working relationships with a wide range of others

• Proven experience of internal and external stakeholder engagement

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

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. 

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.