Senior Heritage Consultant (Maternity Cover)
We are looking for a committed, ambitious and knowledgeable senior heritage consultant to join our heritage consultancy team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced and enthusiastic individual who can inspire creativity and confidence amongst clients, consultants and colleagues alike, deliver excellent advice, promote Purcell and conservation, and pursue new business opportunities.
This role is based in the studio for a minimum of 4 days per week, with up to one day working from home.
The position will be offered on a fixed-term contract (6-12 months), overlapping with a period of parental leave within the existing team, and with potential for the role to be made permanent thereafter.
Purcell is an award-winning employee-owned architectural and heritage consultancy practice with a commitment to quality, innovation, and diversity. We have staff of approximately 300 talented architects, designers, heritage consultants and surveyors across 14 offices, in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia.
Collaboration is central to our employee-ownership culture, providing opportunities to work on some of the finest buildings; from meticulous heritage and conservation schemes to bold contemporary design. We offer a rewarding and supportive environment for personal and professional development and our employee-owned ethos empowers everyone to use their voice. We believe in creating an equitable and inclusive culture, founded on our values, which celebrates knowledge sharing and our successes, to build an inspiring work environment.
It is our distinctive employee-owned working culture that has contributed to our status as a World Architecture Top 100 Practice, renowned for our excellence in architecture and heritage consultancy.
Our benefits package includes agile, flexible and hybrid working, annual leave increasing with long service, life assurance, study sponsorship with paid study leave, sabbaticals, employee assistance programme, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, virtual GP service, subscription fees, company day out, a volunteering scheme and enhanced learning & development opportunities.
Reporting to the west region heritage consultancy lead, you will preferably be based in our Bristol studio (other locations within the region may be considered for exceptional candidates). You will act as heritage lead on a variety of projects, making decisions, providing counsel, advocacy and guidance. Your focus will be providing bespoke and high-quality advice, with outputs including conservation management plans, significance and capacity for change analysis, and heritage impact assessments concerning the full spectrum of heritage asset typology. Projects will include supporting Purcell-led architectural projects, as well as external commissions.
There is an expectation that you would assist in the management of junior team members in the region, managing resource, reviewing work, supporting the building of a pipeline of work for the team and growing the team’s skills.
Skills and Qualifications:
Essential:
- Relevant degree-level qualification (including but not limited to architectural history, building surveying, building conservation, town planning).
- A skills base in heritage planning, building conservation, buildings archaeology, or other relevant field is a must, with at least 7 years of relevant professional experience.
- Ability to liaise with designers and stakeholders, and a proven track record of communicating advice as a project’s heritage lead.
- Excellent skills and demonstrable experience of archival and desk-based research, on-site built fabric analysis and producing well-written reports.
- Skilled at planning and managing your own workload, contributing to the management of junior team workloads, and running multiple simultaneous projects.
- Experience of preparing fee proposals and bids.
- Working knowledge of current English heritage legislation, policy and guidance.
- IHBC full membership, or other relevant professional accreditation.
Highly desirable:
- Knowledge of the market in the west region (including, but not limited to: the west country, south Wales, Thames Valley and/or south midlands areas).
- Knowledge of Welsh heritage legislation, policy and guidance.
- Knowledge of the RIBA stages, particularly 0-3.
- Demonstrable track record in work winning.
- Experience in mentoring and managing junior team members.
- A UK driving license.
- Working proficiency using ArcGIS Pro
This job description is a guide to the duties the post holder will be expected to undertake. It is not intended to be exhaustive or exclusive and will be subject to change as working requirements dictate and to meet the organisational requirements of Purcell.
Please submit a copy of your CV and examples of your work by following the application workflow at the bottom of the page. Please include details of your Right to Work in the United Kingdom, as well as an available start date.
Please note that due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unfortunately unable to provide individual feedback. If you have not heard from us within 6 weeks of your original application, then you have been unsuccessful. Please continue to look at our vacancies and apply where relevant. We wish you all the best in your job search.
As world leaders of Heritage and Conservation, Purcell is committed to embracing diversity and equal opportunity within our international teams, reflective of the society in which we work and live.
We welcome people from all backgrounds and celebrate differences through our culture of employee ownership.