Development Advice Team Leader

Job DescriptionJOB DESCRIPTIONWe are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Development Advice Team Leader.The Team Leader will lead the Development Advice Team’s provision of statutory and non‑statutory advice to help improve peoples’ lives by sustaining the significance of historic places, buildings and sites while securing your wider value to society. You will ensure both in your own caseload, including the more complex and contentious cases, and that of your team; that our advice is soundly based in law, relevant national, regional and local policy and guidance, and reflects our ethos of constructive conservation. You will develop the capabilities of and manage the workloads of staff, ensuring knowledge of and compliance with agreed practices and standards. You will ensure that the team engages where our expertise will add most to public value, and that the team also assists the wider Regions Group and other colleagues in the advancement of our corporate priorities.What you will be doingAs our Development Advice Team Leader you will be a constructive member of Northern Leadership Team, taking delegated responsibility for the delivery of group targets as they apply and liaising closely with Leadership Team colleagues to ensure that the Development Advice Team functions efficiently and effectively.To be an effective advocate for the sustainable management of the historic environment, influencing and supporting stakeholders such as local authorities, communities, dioceses and other religious bodies, Government agencies, sectoral partners and amenity societies, in order to:develop and sustain a strategic engagement plan for Development Advice in North West, ensuring strong and purposeful relationships with a diverse range of relevant stakeholderspromote awareness of the value of historic places, buildings and sites, both as a cultural resource and as an asset for social and economic well-beingassist people and communities in their management of historic places.Within the relevant team’s geographical area, to take overall responsibility for providing statutory and non-statutory planning advice, including in relation to the development of planning policy, to help people to sustain the significance of historic places, buildings and sites while securing their wider value to society, including by:ensuring that we engage where our expertise will add most to public valueallocating responsibility for our advice, escalating where appropriatedelivering or guiding the delivery of that advice to agreed timescales and to excellent customer service standards.Within the relevant team’s geographical area, to take responsibility for providing management advice in relation to historic places, buildings and sites, either directly or by delegation, including by:providing advice and taking action in respect of unauthorised works and damage to scheduled monumentspromoting the development and critical review of management agreements where they would improve and streamline management of the historic environmentproviding IHT advice to HMRCtaking the lead when asked to in relation to Public Inquiries and Examinations in Publicproviding advice in respect of other categories of work referred to our organisation.To lead and manage a team comprising Historic Environment Planning Advisor, Inspectors and Assistant Inspectors and a Landscape Architect, and assisting them by:developing capabilitiesmanaging workloadsensuring knowledge of and compliance with agreed practices and standards.To assist and ensure that the Development Advice Team supports the wider North Regional team and other colleagues in the advancement of our Future Strategy and Corporate Plan.To undertake any other reasonable duties commensurate with the grade and competencies required of the post requested by line management.As a manager, ensure our legal obligations and the expectations set out in our policies are met, including health & safety, equality & diversity, finance, procurement, information security and managing people.Who we are looking forYou will have a broad and extensive experience of managing change to heritage assets, including in the planning system.You will pride yourself on your constructive problem solving skillsYou will be able to act as an authoritative and persuasive representative of our organsiation at all levels including public speaking.You will have experience in proactively prioritising work where we can add most valueYou will have excellent team-working skillsWe 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.
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