Job Details

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join the Historic England team to support the Chief Executive and Chair in all aspects of their roles.

This is a pivotal role at the heart of Historic England. You will represent the Chief Executive and be the public face of their office. With your tact, diplomacy and attention to detail you will ensure both Chief Executive and Chair are seamlessly supported. Your exceptional communication skills will ensure that the Chief Executive and Chair's priorities are not just met but exceeded. This is more than a support role; it's an opportunity to make a significant impact and be a key player in our success story.

This role will manage the CEO and Chair’s Executive Assistant and requires strong communication skills to establish and maintain effective lines of communication and internal relationships across the Historic England Teams, particularly with the Executive Team members and their offices. You will also create strong external relationships externally with multiple stakeholders, including our sponsoring department at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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

• Extensive experience of managing complex and constantly changing priorities, workloads and diaries.
• Proven experience of working as part of a team operating in a busy and fast-paced environment.
• Confidence in building and maintaining effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to absorb, assess and progress new issues quickly and confidently, bringing in appropriate expertise and knowledge from across the organisation as needed.
• Experience of managing office and administrative systems, devising new systems and improving existing systems and process.
• Demonstrable ability to manage an Executive Assistant to ensure right judgments are made, attention to detail is paid and actions are timely