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Senior Heritage Consultant

United Kingdom, Cambridge · Job Posted December 11, 2025
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We are looking for a committed, ambitious and knowledgeable senior heritage consultant to join our heritage consultancy team. If you are an experienced Senior Heritage Consultant, we are looking for an enthusiastic individual who can inspire creativity and confidence amongst clients, consultants and colleagues alike, deliver excellent advice, promote Purcell and conservation, and pursue new business opportunities.

Job Responsibility

  • Act as project leader on a variety of projects, making decisions, providing heritage advice, advocacy and guidance
  • Providing bespoke and high-quality advice, with outputs including conservation management plans, significance and capacity analysis, and heritage impact assessments concerning the full spectrum of heritage asset typology
  • Supporting Purcell-led architectural projects, as well as external commissions
  • Work winning responsibilities, preparing of fee proposals and tenders, as well as undertaking business development to build client relationships and contribute to a pipeline of work for the team
  • Assist with then over time take on management of junior team members in your region, managing resource, reviewing work and growing the team’s skills

Requirements

  • Relevant degree-level qualification (including but not limited to architectural history, archaeology, building surveying, building conservation, town planning)
  • A skills base in a relevant field, such as architectural historic, heritage management, buildings archaeology, heritage planning, is a must, with at least 7 years of relevant professional experience
  • Excellent skills and demonstrable experience of archival and desk-based research, on-site built fabric analysis and producing well-written reports
  • Proven track record in providing advice as heritage lead
  • Expert in planning and managing your own workload and the workload of others and running multiple simultaneous projects
  • Experience of leading on the preparation of fee proposals and bids
  • Demonstrable track record in work winning
  • Working knowledge of current national and local legislation, policy and guidance
  • Experience of working with architects, engineers and statutory stakeholders including conservation officers and Historic England
  • Membership(s) of professional institutions, such as the IHBC or CIFA

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of the market in the East of England region
  • Experience in mentoring and managing junior members of staff
  • A UK driving licence
  • Experience of GIS software
  • Specialism in heritage planning or environmental sustainability

What we offer

  • Agile, flexible and hybrid working, (a minimum of 3 days in office, up to 2 days WFH)
  • Annual leave increasing with long service
  • Life assurance
  • Study sponsorship with paid study leave
  • Sabbaticals
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Season ticket loans
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Virtual GP service
  • Subscription fees
  • Company day out
  • A volunteering scheme
  • Enhanced learning and development opportunities

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