Heritage Trainee (Scotland)

This is an opportunity for a recent graduate or returner to work to gain valuable experience in the community heritage sector. The post-holder will be responsible for supporting all aspects of Heritage Trust Network activity in Scotland. We encourage applications from those who are located in Scotland, who will undertake this post as their sole employment, and who have a demonstrable interest in heritage (through personal interest, volunteering, work or study).

This post is intended to be a starting point for someone wishing to enter the built heritage and community-driven regeneration sectors, those with an established career in heritage will not be considered.

Feedback from our 2023/24 Heritage Trainee (Scotland):

“I thoroughly enjoyed my traineeship with the Heritage Trust Network. I had the opportunity to try so many new things and really developed my skills in a lot of areas and grew in confidence.

I took on new responsibilities and felt supported by the team to carry out projects. I feel like this opportunity has greatly increased my ability to get a career in the heritage sector. The skills I developed were used to get a new job in the sector straight away!"

Salary: Pro rata of £23,400 p.a. (Real Living Wage)

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)

Reporting to: Development Officer for Scotland

Holidays: Pro-rata of 25 days per year plus 3 days shutdown between Christmas and New Year

Pension: As per statutory auto-enrolment requirements

Location: Working from home or from an agreed shared workspace anywhere in Scotland

Tenure: Twelve month traineeship with a two-month probationary period

About the Network

Bringing historic buildings and spaces back to life brings joy to so many people. It restores local pride and identity and creates jobs, workplaces, visitor attractions, educational facilities, arts venues and more. There are thousands of people undertaking this amazing work, either professionally or as volunteers, in all parts of the UK.

Heritage Trust Network is the membership body for independent community organisations, charities and social enterprises that are saving, restoring and managing historic buildings, parks, gardens, canals and railways. Our membership includes both organisations specifically set up to save heritage

sites and community organisations that deliver other types of services and have chosen to operate from historic buildings and spaces. We also welcome individuals, businesses and local authorities that support local heritage action. Together we organise conferences, site visits, meetings and online resources where we can network and learn from each other and meet experts and funders.

We…

• Encourage people to get involved in saving local heritage buildings and places by forming new community organisations or working through existing ones

• Support these organisations to restore and reuse local heritage by providing information, advice, training, networking and peer-to-peer learning

• Champion the work and raise the visibility of community heritage organisations and highlight the range of public benefits they provide

• Advocate for a legislative, policy and funding environment that facilitates grassroots action for heritage.

The Network is growing and currently has over 750 members and we currently have a staff of six.