Heritage Communications & Events Officer

Role of Heritage Communications & Events Officer:

With your experience and skills in events and communications, we would like you to help us develop and deliver Heritage Angel Awards for Northern Ireland. From 2017-20 the Heritage Angel Awards will acknowledge and profile the work and achievements of individuals, groups and communities and their projects for heritage in Northern Ireland. It will highlight best practice in conservation, recording, protecting and celebrating heritage in Northern Ireland. Overall the awards aim to recognise and profile achievement, to inspire and increase activity to help conserve and protect built heritage. Heritage Angel Awards are already established in England and Scotland, led by Historic England and the Scottish Civic Trust.

Reporting to the Chief Executive and UAHS Committee, working with other UAHS Officers, you will help to plan and implement Heritage Angel Awards. This will include coordinating the official launch or the awards, and on a yearly basis, the nomination, shortlisting and judging process, the public vote and the annual gala event. You will manage communications to ensure that Heritage Angel Awards in NI attract maximum publicity and nominations. You will report regularly to our committee, partners and funders, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and Department for Communities.

The successful applicant should have a formal qualification in a relevant subject, and 2-3 years of relevant experience. You will be required to demonstrate a knowledge of, and interest in the historic environment and heritage to be successful in this role.

£22,212 per annum, point 25 on the NJC Pay Scale. The UAHS acknowledges with thanks support from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, (ALWF) and the Historic Environment Fund, Department for Communities for this appointment.

No CVs accepted. For further information and to application form please visit: http://www.uahs.org.uk/news/?q=0&article=231