Senior Heritage Consultant

We are looking for committed, ambitious and knowledgeable senior heritage consultants to join our heritage consultancy team. If you are an experienced Senior Heritage Consultant, we are looking for an 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.

Purcell is an award-winning employee-owned architectural and heritage consultancy practice with a commitment to quality, innovation, and diversity. We have a staff of approximately 300 talented architects, designers, heritage consultants, and surveyors across 14 offices in the UK, Hong Kong, and Australia. Winners of Architect Employer of the Year 2022.

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.

Benefits Package

Our benefits package includes agile, flexible, and hybrid working (a minimum of 3 days in the office, up to 2 days WFH), 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.

Roles and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Heritage consultancy Partner and covering the London and South-east region, you will be based in our London studio. You will act as project leader on a variety of projects, making decisions, providing heritage advice, advocacy, and guidance. Your focus will be providing bespoke and high-quality advice, with outputs including conservation management plans, significance and capacity analysis, and heritage impact assessments.

There is an expectation that you would, over time, take on management of junior team members in your region, managing resources, reviewing work, supporting the building of a pipeline of work for the team, and growing the team’s skills.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

• A skills base in building conservation, buildings archaeology, heritage planning, or other relevant field is a must, with at least 7 years of relevant professional experience.
• Excellent skills and demonstrable experience of archival and desk-based research, on-site built fabric analysis, and producing well-written reports.
• Proven track record in providing advice as heritage lead.
• Expert in planning and managing your own workload and the workload of others and running multiple simultaneous projects.
• Experience of preparing fee proposals and bids.
• Working knowledge of current English heritage legislation, policy, and guidance.
• Membership(s) of professional institutions, such as the IHBC or CIFA.

Highly desirable:

• Knowledge of the market in the south-east region.
• Demonstrable track record in work winning.
• Experience in mentoring and managing junior members of staff.
• Experience of working with architects, engineers, and statutory stakeholders including conservation officers and Historic England.
• A UK driving licence.
• Experience of GIS software.
• Specialism in heritage planning or environmental sustainability.

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.

Application Process

Please submit a copy of your CV and portfolio 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.