ROLE SUMMARY
Historic Environment Scotland plays a lead role in securing the delivery of the Strategy for Scotland’s Historic Environment – “Our Past Our Future”. We are responsible for protecting and promoting some of the nation’s fabulous heritage assets, like Edinburgh Castle. We also look after some of Scotland’s outstanding collections and archives. But at Historic Environment Scotland, we do so much more – as a regulator, as a grant provider, as a research organisation and as an expert heritage adviser across a wide range of subjects.
We are looking for Board members with some particular skills who can contribute to the Board’s development and help it to adapt to the challenges and opportunities in the heritage buildings sector.
The Board is responsible for determining the overall vision, strategic aims and objectives of Historic Environment Scotland, in accordance with the statutory duties and within the policy and resource framework agreed with Scottish Ministers.
The Board has oversight and is ultimately responsible for stewardship and performance of the organisation.
Responsibilities
- ensuring that the public body delivers its functions in accordance with Scottish Ministers’ policies and priorities
- providing strategic leadership
- ensuring financial stewardship
- holding the Chief Executive and senior management team to account
Qualifications
Before you start your application please download the Application Information Pack.
Skills/Experience Required
Priority criteria – You must demonstrate one of these with experience in:
1. Finance, audit and oversight
2. ICT/Digital programmes and operational leadership
3. People leadership and organisational change/re-design
4. Board governance
5. Heritage buildings sector
Essential criteria – You must demonstrate all of these:
1. Challenging the views of others in a constructive and supportive way.
2. Seeing the ‘bigger picture'
3. Communicating effectively
4. Personal commitment and enthusiasm for Scotland’s historic environment
Public appointments are made by Scottish Ministers. The appointments process is regulated by the Ethical Standards Commissioner you can find out more about the Commissioner here: Public appointments | Ethical Standards Commissioner.
Remuneration for this appointment is £308 per day. Reasonable travel and subsistence, childcare and carer receipted expenses incurred will be reimbursed. This role is non-pensionable.
The average time commitment is approximately two days per month.
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Find out more about public appointments here: Public appointments - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the appointments process or further support with your application, please contact the Public Appointments Team by email at public.appointments@gov.scot.
Successful candidates must complete the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), before they can be appointed. BPSS is comprised of four main pre-employment checks – Identity, Right to work, Employment History and a Criminal Record check (unspent convictions).
You can find out more about BPSS on the UK Government website, and read about the Government Vetting Charter, or about all of the different levels of security checks in our Candidate Guide.
