Policy Officer

Love heritage? Interested in policy? Knowledgeable about parliamentary process? We're looking for a Policy Officer to join the busy Historic Houses policy team.

Historic Houses represents around 1,450 historic houses, castles and gardens in independent ownership across the UK. These places include the country’s most highly visited stately home properties (such as Blenheim, Castle Howard and Longleat) alongside hundreds of lesser known but still highly valued and appreciated historic house properties. 

These places are often lynchpins for their local communities, providing access to great art, architecture, craft skills, health and wellbeing, community engagement and access to nature and open space. Historic Houses places demonstrate a huge variety in terms of how ‘open’ they might be, or what business activities they choose to adopt, but all of them share the same challenge: finding the income to keep a house, its collection and its landscape setting in good condition. Historic Houses is a membership association that enables independently owned historic houses and gardens to speak with one powerful voice. It does this through its policy and public affairs activity, its marketing and promotion, and its technical advisory services. 

We’re looking for a bright, proactive Policy Officer with a passion for the special places we represent, a keen interest in advocacy and sharp attention to detail. If you’re energised by the opportunity to make a real difference in policy-making, and keen to champion the future of our historic environment, we want to hear from you. A genuine interest in heritage and culture is really important, but direct experience of working in a heritage policy role is not essential; we’re more interested in your skills and aptitude to make a real impact in this role and can support you in developing the specialist and technical knowledge required. 

The closing date for applications is 9am on Friday 6 December 2024. Interviews will take place at Warwick House on Monday 16 December 2024.  

To apply, please email a CV and cover letter via the button below.