Inspector of Ancient Monuments - Two posts
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,984 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | Pro rata, plus generous benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Historic England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Summary
Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments in our East of England Region.
With a remit to advise on the most important and diverse collection of archaeological sites in the region including prehistoric sites, extensive monastic ruins, garden archaeology, coastal and 20th century military sites. You’ll be working within our knowledgeable and enthusiastic multidisciplinary Development Advice team alongside two other Inspectors of Ancient Monuments.
This is a great chance to develop your career in the historic environment in an exciting role with Historic England. The public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
There are 2 Full Time, Permanent positions based in Cambridge with hybrid working.
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.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing
The East of England Development Advice Team provide Historic England’s statutory and non-statutory advice engaging where we add most value to decision-making through our distinctive contribution as national experts.
As part of the East of England Development Advice Team, you will take delegated responsibility for the delivery of Historic England’s advice on proposals for change to scheduled monuments, archaeology and in relation to historic environment planning. Your core duties will be advising on scheduled monument consent, planning applications and National Strategic Infrastructure Projects. You will be giving advice to owners, local authorities, applicants and their teams and others proactively working towards the sustainable management of archaeology and the historic environment.
The Development Advice Teams also work closely with other teams to support communities in looking after historic places in line with Historic England’s objectives and contribute to specific projects where their expertise would add value, for example as part of Historic England's grant programme.
Knowledge and skills we are looking for
A thorough knowledge of archaeology and archaeological landscapes in England, scheduled monuments and their management and the techniques of their study
A good working knowledge of planning archaeology
A good understanding of Government policy, guidance and statutory procedures for the historic environment in the planning system, including Scheduled Monument Consent and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project planning
Good negotiating and influencing skills
The ability to think creatively with good problem solving skills
Ability to deal with pressure and challenge
A methodical and analytical approach to understanding proposals for change and assessing their impact
Please note that:
The role requires regular travel to sites not serviced by public transport
The role requires visiting/inspecting sites which is likely to require climbing scaffolding and negotiating confined spaces
The role may require occasional attendance at community or planning meetings which can be held at evenings or weekends
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. 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 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.
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 dates: 2nd & 3rd Sept 2025, in person interviews
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –
https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/5oghitcn/inspector-of-ancient-monuments-east-jd-mar-2025.odt
If you would like to discuss the role further please contact Will.Fletcher@HistoricEngland.org.uk
Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments in our East of England Region.
With a remit to advise on the most important and diverse collection of archaeological sites in the region including prehistoric sites, extensive monastic ruins, garden archaeology, coastal and 20th century military sites. You’ll be working within our knowledgeable and enthusiastic multidisciplinary Development Advice team alongside two other Inspectors of Ancient Monuments.
This is a great chance to develop your career in the historic environment in an exciting role with Historic England. The public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.
There are 2 Full Time, Permanent positions based in Cambridge with hybrid working.
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.
To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here.
What you will be doing
The East of England Development Advice Team provide Historic England’s statutory and non-statutory advice engaging where we add most value to decision-making through our distinctive contribution as national experts.
As part of the East of England Development Advice Team, you will take delegated responsibility for the delivery of Historic England’s advice on proposals for change to scheduled monuments, archaeology and in relation to historic environment planning. Your core duties will be advising on scheduled monument consent, planning applications and National Strategic Infrastructure Projects. You will be giving advice to owners, local authorities, applicants and their teams and others proactively working towards the sustainable management of archaeology and the historic environment.
The Development Advice Teams also work closely with other teams to support communities in looking after historic places in line with Historic England’s objectives and contribute to specific projects where their expertise would add value, for example as part of Historic England's grant programme.
Knowledge and skills we are looking for
A thorough knowledge of archaeology and archaeological landscapes in England, scheduled monuments and their management and the techniques of their study
A good working knowledge of planning archaeology
A good understanding of Government policy, guidance and statutory procedures for the historic environment in the planning system, including Scheduled Monument Consent and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project planning
Good negotiating and influencing skills
The ability to think creatively with good problem solving skills
Ability to deal with pressure and challenge
A methodical and analytical approach to understanding proposals for change and assessing their impact
Please note that:
The role requires regular travel to sites not serviced by public transport
The role requires visiting/inspecting sites which is likely to require climbing scaffolding and negotiating confined spaces
The role may require occasional attendance at community or planning meetings which can be held at evenings or weekends
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. 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 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.
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 dates: 2nd & 3rd Sept 2025, in person interviews
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –
https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/5oghitcn/inspector-of-ancient-monuments-east-jd-mar-2025.odt
If you would like to discuss the role further please contact Will.Fletcher@HistoricEngland.org.uk
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