Overview

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 has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Technical Manager (MDE Heritage Accelerator).

This is a Full Time, Fixed-Term Contract until March 2027.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and day-to-day management of a new, innovative project to enrich the Crown Estate’s Marine Data Exchange (MDE) with heritage information generated by marine development.
• Lead the MDE Heritage Accelerator project to simultaneously enhance the National Marine Heritage Record (NMHR) to enable better and faster decision-making in delivering clean energy offshore.
• Work on projects funded through the Crown Estate’s Offshore Wind Evidence & Change (OWEC) programme.

Who we are looking for

• Extensive experience of working with marine or heritage data in a professional context, including large datasets.
• Relevant qualification(s) or equivalent experience in a relevant subject.
• Demonstrable experience of managing major multi-year quality-driven projects with complex technical and methodological challenges.
• Detailed knowledge of seabed survey systems commonly used in UK marine heritage, including their resulting data and its processing and interpretation.
• Detailed knowledge of UK frameworks, standards and lexicons used in processing, interpreting, and recording marine data, heritage assets, interventions, and sources.
• Entrepreneurial and flexible – able to creatively problem solve.

Working arrangements and benefits

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme (starting at 28% 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. Flexible working options are available, including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours, and hybrid working arrangements. Provisional interview dates: virtual – End of September 2025. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

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. We recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance and have recently won the Gold Award from MIND.

Recruitment process

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We use a hiring system called Applied, a behavioural science-backed platform that reduces bias and increases diversity. We do not use CV applications for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer questions to test your skills and suitability. To ensure a fair and inclusive process, the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

How to apply

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –

https://historicengland.org.uk/media/ykmaeed3/technical-manager-mde-heritage-accelerator.odt