Senior Project Officer Conservation

Salary range: Grade- 50676 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon

Croydon has a rich and varied built heritage. This includes the highly significant Old Palace School (former Archbishops Palace) Croydon Minster and 16th century Whitgift Almshouses (all Grade I Listed) as well as a particularly fine concentration of Victorian architecture in the town centre. The borough is diverse ranging from dense London suburban development in the north to the leafy greenbelt to the south. Croydon is also increasingly being recognised for its post-war 20th century heritage including buildings in the town centre such as No.1 Croydon Corinthian House and the 1970s St Bernards development on Park Hill one of a limited number of mid 20^th century conservation areas in the country.

Croydons heritage is protected through having over 180 statutory listed buildings 21 conservation areas throughout the borough 8 scheduled monuments and 3 registered parks and gardens as well as a well-established register of local heritage designations including locally listed buildings local heritage areas and locally listed parks and gardens.

About the role

This post offers a unique and exciting opportunity to join Croydons Placemaking Team which brings together the disciplines of urban design conservation architecture landscape architecture and planning policy. You will provide heritage expertise to support a coordinated approach to the planning and delivery of sustainable development in Croydon. You will have a qualification related to heritage and conservation. You will be involved in a wide range of Spatial Planning and Development Management projects and applications and will assist in placing heritage at the heart of the boroughs plans for the future.

You will be required to undertake a range of tasks related to heritage protection and building conservation including:

• providing specialist advice on all conservation-related matters including pre-application advice planning applications appeals and Council growth and regeneration projects

• monitoring the Heritage at Risk Register and working proactively to facilitate removal of assets from it

• maintaining lists of designated heritage assets

• producing Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Plans

• updating the boroughs Local List of locally significant buildings

You will demonstrate a solid understanding of current legislation policy guidance and best practice in relation to planning and heritage protection. You will be able to demonstrate conservation and heritage-related professional experience and passion for the historic environment. You will also have a good understanding of how diverse social and cultural heritage informs local distinctiveness and character whilst forming part of a holistic approach to heritage led placemaking.

In addition to the person specification the successful candidate will also be motivated innovative and able to prioritise a varied and challenging work programme. Excellent communication skills are essential due to the high level of internal and external stakeholder engagement.

About the Placemaking Team

The Croydon Council Placemaking Team is an award winning multidisciplinary team of built environment practitioners with experience from the strategic level through to detailed design and delivery. The team sits within the Councils Place Directorate and works across strategic planning urban design architecture & landscape architecture research public engagement public realm public art & culture heritage and conservation. The team is part of the Spatial Planning Service which brings together Croydons Placemaking and Planmaking functions to provide a holistic and coordinated approach to planning design and delivery. It comprises urban designers architects landscape architects built heritage specialists cultural practitioners and planners.

The Croydon Placemaking Team is committed to ensuring a fair and open place of work. We aim to shape places that are created with and enjoyed by all people of different cultures identities needs and experiences. We believe that our team should reflect the diverse communities we serve and therefore particularly encourage applications from disability groups BIPOC (Black Indigenous and People of Colour) and people with trans identities who are currently under-represented within our team.

As users of the disability confident scheme we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role. We will also be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements.

Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

For a job pack please visit where you can register and apply online.

To arrange an informal discussion please email Nicolette Duckham (Lead Conservation Officer) at or Anisha Jogani (Placemaking Team Leader) at