Recruitment Adviser

Summary Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone. Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Recruitment Adviser. This is a full time, 9 month fixed term position and the salary is £35,000 per annum. The location of this role is Swindon, inclusive with hybrid working. We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals. To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here. What you will be doing As Recruitment Adviser, you will deliver ‘experienced hire’ recruitment across the whole of Historic England (HE), taking the lead in providing evidence-led creative advice and solutions to support recruiting managers to effectively market vacancies and assess candidates, whilst ensuring the candidate experience is positive and in line with our brand.  Reporting to the Early Careers and Recruitment Manager, you will take a lead role on our strategic and routine BAU (business as usual) recruitment activity, providing direct advice and operational support.  You will find creative solutions to recruitment challenges and influence decisions through a developed understanding of the organisation and our objectives.  Developing and maintaining strong working relationships, enabling us to achieve our corporate objectives will also be a key element of the role. Whilst the focus of this role is on experienced hires, you will also support our work on early careers recruitment and onboarding. Who we are looking for Previous experience of working within a busy internal recruitment function at adviser level Recent responsibility for experienced hire recruitment from sourcing to onboarding Experience of working with social media and recruitment partners either creating content and/or analysing data Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems Ability to coordinate and manage various deadlines and conflicting requirements Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria. Historic England is a Disability Confident Leader and normally offers guaranteed interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role, where it is practical and appropriate to do so. We want all candidates to shine in the recruitment process, so please tell us what we can do to help you show us your very best self. For more information, please visit our Everyone is Welcome page, or contact us at [email removed - click apply for more details] if you have any recruitment queries. We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can. We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more. Why work for Historic England We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level. Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at [email removed - click apply for more details] if you have any recruitment queries. At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role. At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input. Provisional interview dates: w/c 9th or 16th November 2026 Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description – https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/o4znpwuq/recruitment-adviser-jd-oct-2026.odt Historic England only accepts applications through our authorised recruitment platform, Applied. We will never ask applicants to pay any fee or provide payment details during the recruitment process. Please only apply using the application link provided within this advert.