Development Officer (Data and Engagement)

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Development Officer (Data and Engagement)

Employer: Historic England

Location: Nationwide, Great Britain

Salary: GBP 31,361.00 per year; GBP 34,690.00 per year; GBP 36,368.00 per year

Closing date: 9 May 2025

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 has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Development Officer (Data and Engagement).

This is a Part Time, 6 months Fixed-Term Contract, working 18 hours a week.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working; you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.

Salary
National: £31,361 pro-rata
Greater London+: £34,690 pro-rata
Inner London: £36,368 pro-rata

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
As our Development Officer (Data and Engagement), you will play an important role in supporting the development of long-term relationships with Historic England and Historic England Foundation donors, supporters, and partners.

You will update the Customer Relationship Management database (Dynamics), create and run reports, and coordinate mailouts, ensuring compliance with relevant data protection policies and legislation. You will also support with the identification and research of prospective funders (individuals, corporate sponsors, and trusts and foundations) and will support fundraisers in maintaining positive and engaged relationships with funders.

You will also support with planning, coordination, and delivery of a diverse range of communications and events aimed at engaging patrons, donors, and stakeholders, including the senior leadership and commissioners of Historic England, and the trustees of the Historic England Foundation. This includes collaborating with internal teams across Historic England to ensure excellent event logistics, engaging content, and alignment with key strategic objectives.

Who we are looking for

• Experience of using a fundraising or customer relationship management database, including importing, exporting, and manipulating data
• Demonstrable experience of supporter or customer engagement through high-quality communications and events
• Ability to balance competing priorities and complete tasks to tight deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail

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 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: 30th April 2025

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