Overview

Job Title: Senior Heritage Consultant

Location: Cambridge

Salary: £40-48,000

About the company

The practice is an architecture, masterplanning, and heritage consultancy with a long, distinguished history, focused on sustainably enhancing significant buildings and places. It works across a range of sectors - including cultural, public, education, residential, hospitality, commercial, infrastructure, and faith - combining deep expertise in conservation, heritage, design, and planning. The practice emphasises thoughtful understanding of heritage and designs responsively and responsibly for future generations. It has recently achieved B Corporation status, reflecting a commitment to high social and environmental standards.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model, enabling a flexible balance between office and remote work
• Generous leave, increasing with length of service
• Life assurance
• Study sponsorship with paid study leave
• Sabbaticals
• Employee assistance programme
• Season ticket loans and cycle-to-work scheme
• Virtual GP service
• Coverage of professional subscription fees
• Company day out and team-building events
• Volunteering scheme
• Enhanced learning and development opportunities

Daily Duties

• Lead heritage consultancy projects in the East of England region, with occasional London projects
• Produce heritage advice, reports, and outputs such as conservation management plans, significance and capacity analyses, and heritage impact assessments
• Undertake archival and desk-based research, as well as on-site built fabric analysis
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, statutory bodies, and other stakeholders to integrate heritage considerations
• Prepare fee proposals, tenders, and bids; contribute to business development and maintain client relationships
• Manage project resources, timelines, and budgets; review work of junior team members
• Mentor, develop, and oversee junior staff, helping to grow the team's skills and capacity

Ideal Candidate

• Holds a relevant degree (e.g., architectural history, archaeology, building surveying, conservation, or planning)
• Has at least 7 years of relevant professional experience in heritage, conservation, or the built environment
• Strong skills in archival and desk research, built-fabric analysis, and high-quality report writing
• Demonstrable experience as a heritage lead, providing advice and guidance on projects
• Proven track record in preparing bids and fee proposals, winning work, and managing multiple simultaneous projects
• Sound understanding of national and local heritage policy, legislation, and guidance
• Experienced working with architects, engineers, and statutory stakeholders (e.g., conservation officers, Historic England)
• Member of a relevant professional body (IHBC, CIfA, or similar)