Stakeholder Engagement and Briefing Transformation Lead

Employer
HISTORIC ENGLAND

Location
Hybrid · Bristol · Swindon · Cambridge · Birmingham · Newcastle · London · York · Manchester

Salary
£45,000 - £50,000 Plus generous benefits

Closing date
28 Sep 2025

Contract
Contract

Hours
Full time

Sector
Arts & heritage, Charities, Environment, green & sustainable, Heritage, Venue, Cause, Ecology & conservation, Community engagement, Visitor services & experience, Environment (charity), Conservation

Employee benefits & values
Bonus & discount schemes, Enhanced pension, Hybrid working

Job Details

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Stakeholder Engagement and Briefing Transformation Lead.

This is a full-time, 12-month fixed term post.

Salary

• National £45,000 per annum
• Cambridge £48,000 per annum
• Inner London £50,000 per annum

The location of this role is flexible in any of our offices, but we would expect some time based in the London office.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 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.

What you will be doing

This is an exciting moment to join Historic England, as we enter a new chapter under the leadership of our recently appointed CEO. In this pivotal role within the Chief Executive's Office, you will drive transformation by creating and leading the innovative Briefing Hub—an engine for strategic thinking and impactful engagement.

Your leadership will shape how Historic England communicates with clarity and influence, delivering a dynamic and coordinated approach to briefings and stakeholder engagement.

You'll have the opportunity to design and implement best-in-class processes for briefings and speechwriting—raising the quality of our messaging and strengthening our voice. By bringing teams together, you'll foster collaboration that inspires creativity, consistency, and purpose. Under your guidance, our engagement with stakeholders—from government representatives to leaders in the cultural sector—will be bold, effective, and unforgettable.

Who we are looking for

• Extensive experience of writing briefings, speeches and reports at Executive level
• Proven experience of managing complex projects
• Strong stakeholder engagement management skills, with both internal and external people
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate
• Demonstratable digital and analytical skills with the ability to process and evaluate data effectively

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 just won the Gold Award from MIND, 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.

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 want 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.

Applied recruitment - 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. To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview date: 14th October 2025