Background to HLF.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of funds raised by the National Lottery. Since 1994 we have awarded 4.7 billion GBP to 32 000 projects across the UK, ranging from major capital projects at iconic heritage sites to small education and community projects.

HLF is administered by the Trustees of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) and gives grants to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom.

We distribute money raised to projects conserving our diverse heritage and helping people learn about and take an active part in it. Our definition of heritage is broad, including: historic buildings and townscapes; archaeological sites; museums and archives; natural and designed landscapes (including parks habitats and species) oral history, cultural traditions and local community heritage.

Information about HLF is at www.hlf.org.uk.

We need external specialists with appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to work as Monitors to help us monitor the delivery of the projects we fund.

The categories of specialist knowledge, skills and experience are:

1. Project management of capital/conservation projects involving heritage buildings (including those in use as for heritage purposes e.g. museums, archives, visitor attractions, or non-heritage uses e.g. places of worship, community spaces, theatres), monuments or heritage sites (including archaeological and industrial sites);

2. Project management of capital/conservation projects involving parks, designed landscapes or countryside;

3. Project management of capital/conservation projects involving ships/other vessels, vehicles or aircraft;

4. Project management of large and/or complex activity projects (i.e. projects not involving capital or conservation works) in any of the heritage areas listed above, including education and community projects;

5. Project management of large scale digital projects.

The work will vary from project to project, within the scope of the tasks outlined. The case officer is responsible for defining the detailed nature of each commission and for managing the monitoring budget. This will be defined by an assessment of the risks associated with each grant awarded.

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