Overview

Senior Heritage Consultant role at TipTopJob. Location: Cambridge. Salary: GBP40:48,000.

Join to apply for the Senior Heritage Consultant role at TipTopJob. 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 sectors including cultural, public, education, residential, hospitality, commercial, infrastructure, and faith, combining conservation, heritage, design, and planning. 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

Responsibilities

• 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 teams 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)

Seniorities & Employment

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales
• Industries: Construction

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