Graduate Archaeologist Consultant – Belfast – Immediate Start

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Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

We are currently seeking a Graduate Archaeological Consultant in our Belfast office to support our impact assessment team. This role will suit a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a team that’s growing and has strong links across many disciplines.

This is a fantastic opportunity to further your career in archaeology, gaining valuable commercial experience within an established consultancy and a registered organisation with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA).

Our large, national Heritage team delivers a range of exciting and varied projects across the UK and beyond. We work in dynamic and challenging environments, in multi-disciplinary teams, offering a range of services concerned with design approach, conservation strategy, asset management and planning policy. Our experts work closely alongside designers, planners and other environmental specialists to identify and realise the potential of heritage to support the creation of successful places where people want to live and work.

The Heritage team is part of AECOM’s Environment business which delivers solutions to a broad base of public and private sector clients, including the National Trust, Historic England, Department for Infrastructure Northern Ireland, HS2, the Environment Agency, local authorities and educational institutions.

As a member of one of the UK’s largest heritage consultancies, you’ll take a key role on a range of regionally significant projects, including regeneration, master-planning and infrastructure schemes, as well as important national and international projects.

Your initial role will be to assist with archaeological assessments for a variety of projects and a range of clients. Your responsibilities will include:

• Archive research, including historic maps, archaeological reports, historic documents and aerial photographs

• Site walkover surveys

• Analysis, assessment, interpretation and presentation of archaeological data to contribute to desk-based assessments

More opportunities for developing your skills open after this first phase – from designing and managing fieldwork to advising on scheme development and design, working with larger teams to facilitate new development and regenerate areas. Opportunities will include:

• Conservation strategy and asset management

• Pre-application advice

• Planning and legal compliance

• Fieldwork design and management

• Post-excavation and publication strategies

• Public outreach and engagement

You’ll be supported in expanding your experience and developing your career within a structured, friendly team environment. We’ll pair you with an experienced team member as your guide and mentor as you start working on live projects.

Professional Development

Our Graduate Development Programme (ADVANCE) along with our huge scope of projects across the globe will challenge and inspire you to make a real difference to the world we live in. Our GDP forms a core part of our business strategy globally, designed to develop the best talent across numerous disciplines to lead our business into the future. We have more than 750 graduates on our programmes across the UK and Ireland from more than 40 different disciplines, each making a tangible difference to the environment in which we live and work.

We shall provide you with all the tools and support you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, including Chartership with the relevant international professional institution (we have graduates working towards more than 30 professional institutions in the UK and Ireland). We shall push you to achieve the highest standards and expect our graduates to pass their professional review first time. You will be assigned a mentor to support and guide your development, and you will take regular training modules throughout the programme. There will be on-the-job technical development and classroom training where required, and the opportunity to work on live client projects with significant multi-disciplinary exposure.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree (ideally BA or BSc) in archaeology or related discipline, min 2:1

• Good working knowledge of Irish archaeology and field techniques

• Knowledge of UK and Ireland legislation and planning policy

• Able to use and manipulate data in GIS

• Excellent report writing skills

• Good Microsoft Office skills essential such as Word, Excel & PowerPoint

• Ability to communicate effectively to internal and external clients, both verbally & in writing with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients, colleagues, stakeholders and sub-contractors alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback

• Enthusiastic, hard-working, with ambition and drive

• Ability to structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole

• Ability to work in a team and independently without losing initiative & focus.

• Full UK driving licence

Desired

• Experience of archival research and preparation of archaeological desk-based assessments

• Experience in commercial archaeological sector

In addition to your archaeological skills, you must be able to cope with the demands of a busy office, where deadlines and changing priorities are a constant factor.

Additional Information

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected on a rolling recruitment basis for either immediate or advanced offer start.

Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades.

You must have permanent right to work in Ireland as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10098999

Business Line: Environment

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Science

Work Location Model: On-Site