Historic environment advice assistant apprenticeship

Provide technical, research and logistical support to historic environment professionals 

As an advice assistant, you’ll give technical, research, and logistical support to experts who work with historical buildings, monuments, landscapes, battlefields, and other important sites. Your job is to support them with technical tasks, research, and logistics during planning and development projects. This includes understanding laws and rules that protect these historical sites, which can be international, national, or local. You’ll work with a variety of people from different sectors, including public, private, and nonprofit organisations. During your apprenticeship, you’ll mostly work in an office but will also visit sites, work outdoors, and attend meetings with different stakeholders, clients, or colleagues. Your tasks will include researching, investigating, analysing, and reporting on historical sites to help make decisions about changes, protection, maintenance, interpretation, conservation, or restoration. 

Duration: 24 months

Relevant school subjects: DT, art and history

Entry requirements for the historic environment advice assistant apprenticeship: Five GCSEs

Achievement upon completion: Level 4 (Higher)—equivalent to a foundation degree

Potential salary upon completion: £21,000 per annum

Find out more: www.apprenticeshipguide.co.uk