Historic England
Part Time Project Manager - Creative Content Exchange
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Summary
Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.
Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Project Manager (Creative Content Exchange).
This is a part time (0.7 FTE), fixed term contract position for five months finishing by 29 April 2027.
The location of this role is either York, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cambridge, Swindon, Bristol or Portsmouth, inclusive with hybrid working.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 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.
Salary:
National £40,778 pro-rata
Greater London+ £43,903 pro-rata
What you will be doing
As a member of the Philanthropy & Income Development department, the Project Manager (Creative Content Exchange) will be responsible for project managing the set up and initial delivery phase of Historic England’s Creative Content Exchange project.
The Creative Content Exchange (CCE) is a UK government-backed initiative that aims to bring together UK-based creative content owners and businesses looking to use the wealth and range of digital assets the UK’s cultural institutions hold in their collections and archives.
The postholder will manage and deliver the project, ensuring alignment across technical, archival, digital, and legal workstreams to prepare, produce and upload digital assets to the CCE platform. Working as part of a matrix project delivery team including colleagues from the Philanthropy and Income Development department, Historic England’s Archive services, external partners and a range of colleagues across Historic England.
Who we are looking for
A capable project manager, supported with a recognised PM qualification and experience working on digital/ web-enabled projects.
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The successful candidate will bring excellent stakeholder management skills and a high level of digital literacy, along with the ability to think strategically and identify opportunities and interdependencies between projects and other work components.
They will be equipped with excellent communication skills, including the ability to analyse information and present it verbally and in writing, clearly and concisely, along with the ability to build and sustain effective working relationships with colleagues and external partners and manage multi-disciplinary project teams.
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page, or contact us at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
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 won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, 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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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 wants 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.
At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use of AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.
Provisional interview dates: 3rd September 2026
Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description –
https://historicengland.org.uk/media/ox0j0lsk/project-manager-creative-content-exchange.odt
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