We’re looking for a Heritage engagement manager to join our team!
| Job title | Heritage Engagement Manager |
| Salary | £33K per annum |
| Benefits: | Generous leave allowance, enhanced staff benefit package, pension contribution. |
| Location | Hybrid/Knowsley with expectation of 70% of role community facing |
| Hours of Work | 35 Hours per week (worked flexibly with a requirement for evening and weekend work when required by the post). |
| Accountable to | Chief Operating Officer |
| Accountable for | Heritage Engagement Project Officer |
Purpose of the Role
As the Heritage Engagement Manager, you will drive the delivery and impact of the Knowsley Golden Thread Heritage Project actively contributing too and supporting activity within the portfolio of Connected Communities Pillar. You will work collaboratively with VCFSE groups, local communities, and key stakeholders to increase heritage engagement and build sustainable community-led heritage projects.
The Knowsley Golden Thread Heritage Project is a transformative two-year initiative with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project aims to engage Voluntary, Community, Faith, and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) groups in Knowsley, extending the impact of previous successful heritage initiatives across the borough. Through a pioneering participatory budgeting approach, the project will support and deepen heritage engagement, enabling local communities to explore and celebrate their heritage.
The Heritage Engagement Manager will:
- Lead the project to successful completion by January 2026.
- Line Management of Heritage Engagement Project Officer
- Identify and address barriers to heritage engagement, ensuring equality of access and participation
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Establish Collaborative networks:
- Establish and maintain a Heritage Network that brings together professionals, volunteers, and local groups, enabling collaboration and resource-sharing.
- Establish and facilitate VCFSE Communities of Practice to ensure that local voices are at the forefront of heritage work.
- Champion and promote the transformation of volunteer management through embedment of the Knowsley Volunteering Platform in conjunction with the Liverpool City Region (LCR) Volunteering Hub within the local VCSFE.
- Increase Engagement with Heritage:
- Mobilise VCFSE-led heritage activities, ensuring previously underrepresented groups actively participate.
- Extend the reach of heritage projects to new communities, including those with diverse backgrounds, ages, and abilities
- Support Participatory Budgeting for Heritage Initiatives:
- Implement innovative participatory budgeting process that enables communities to direct heritage funding toward locally significant projects.
- Empower local groups by providing guidance on accessing funding and developing their heritage projects.
- Create Collaborative Heritage Projects:
- Support the co-creation of collaborative heritage projects across Knowsley, involving multiple stakeholders from different sectors across built, living and natural heritage.
- Champion inclusivity and cultural sensitivity in all projects, ensuring all community voices are heard.
- Develop Digital Heritage Engagement working closely with the One Knowsley Marketing Manager:
- Promote and encourage the use of and access too digital tools to broaden heritage engagement across the borough.
- Strengthen the VCFSE Sector’s Capacity:
- Provide ongoing support and training to VCFSE organisations to support their engagement and involvement with the programme whilst enabling sustainability of heritage activities by fostering partnerships between VCFSE organisations and heritage professionals.
- Monitor and Report Project Progress:
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting to funders and stakeholders, including the effective implementation of the participatory budget and evaluation of the programmes impact to internal and external stakeholders.
Download the full job pack here: Heritage engagement manager Job Pack
If you feel you have the attitudes, skills and experience to work with us to deliver our vision, send your C.V. plus a personal statement – clearly indicating how you meet the person and role specification to recruitment@oneknowsley.org clearly stating the role you are applying for in the subject title by midnight on Wednesday 27th November 2024.
Applicants shortlisted for interview will be notified week commencing Monday 2nd December 2024. Interviews will be held in person at One Knowsley, Court Hey L16 3NA in the week commencing Monday 9th December 2024
(successfully shortlisted candidates will be notified which day nearer the time).
