Policy Manager (Local Authority Resilience)
Historic England — United Kingdom
Salary: Not disclosed · Schedule: Compressed Week · Work model: Hybrid
Skills: Advocacy, Communication, Data Analysis, Policy Development, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning
Job Description
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 has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Policy Manager (Local Authority Resilience).
This is a full time, permanent position.
The location of this role is either York, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cambridge, Swindon, Bristol or Portsmouth, inclusive with hybrid working. Please note there is some travel to Historic England office locations for team meetings and travel for sector meetings.
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
Working to the Head of Sector Resilience, the Policy Manager (Local Government Resilience) will advise on and lead development of Historic England’s policy and programme work to improve the capacity and capability of Local and Strategic Authorities heritage services, enabling them to make effective, confident and consistent decisions regarding the historic environment supporting growth, place-shaping and climate resilience, whilst responding to changes in the planning landscape.
You will support the Head of Sector Resilience to lead collaboration across Historic England teams, building on a strong awareness of current and future policy changes and local government needs, to provide strategic direction for Historic England’s local government resilience programme.
You will engage and negotiate with relevant stakeholders, including MHCLG, DCMS, Local Government Association, heritage sector and industry bodies to ensure Historic England’s support offer is highly collaborative and complements wider support available.
You will identify and maximise opportunities to access additional funding to grow the offer where possible.
Who we are looking for
Experience of developing sector support and/or training programmes with the ideally within the context of the historic environment or local government
Experience of intelligence collection activities such as designing surveys, running focus groups, analysing, reporting and publishing collected data
Experience of building effective partnerships and managing strategic relationships
An understanding of the role local authorities play in managing change within the historic environment, and the challenges they face
An understanding of the current and emerging planning policy landscape and other government agendas such as devolution and local government reorganisation
Good written communication skills for different media and purposes including for advocacy and engagement, briefing and report writing, analytical analysis reporting
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. 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.
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.
Provisional interview dates: 21st September 2026
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