Job Vacancy - Finance Manager (Strategy & Resources Team)

Location: Aberystwyth

Salary Range £27,550 - £33,900
37 hours per week – permanent appointment
(Appointment will be at or near the minimum of the pay band) 

The Royal Commission is seeking a new Finance Manager to fill an important role in the next chapter of our 106 year history.

Based in Aberystwyth, The Royal Commission is the investigation body and national archive for the historic environment of Wales. The Finance Manager at the Commission will be responsible for all aspects of the Commission’s financial management, ensuring that we fulfil our responsibilities to our Royal Warrant and the Welsh Government.

The Finance Manager will be a proactive and effective manager with experience of all aspects of the financial management of an organisation. As well as being confident and self motivated with good communication and IT skills (including Sage), candidates must have proven experience and/or appropriate professional or academic qualifications in a relevant discipline.

Applications would also be welcomed from those who have experience of managing the finances of Heritage Lottery Fund or European Union funded projects or of charitable organisations. Developing and maintaining positive and professional working relationships with staff and external contacts is integral to this post. As such, the ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh would also be an advantage.

An application form and further details are available from:-
Mr S Bailey John
Royal Commission
Plas Crug
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NJ

E-mail: stephen.bailey-john@rcahmw.gov.uk
Tel: 01970 621230
Fax: 01970 621246

Closing date for applications is 16:00 on Friday 27 February 2015.
The Royal Commission is an equal opportunities employer

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Our Past And Its Future: Sites in the National Monuments Record of Wales

Great Orme Copper Mine, Llandudno.

On 20 January 2015, Kenneth Skates, Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism gave a statement in the Senedd on 'our past and its future.'

http://www.assembly.wales/en/bus-home/pages/rop.aspx?meetingid=3101&assembly=4&c=Record of Proceedings - 193652#193652

If you would like to see further details of the sites mentioned in his statement and the responses, click on the sites below to link to the record on our online database www.coflein.gov.uk

• Great Orme Copper Mine 
• Hafod and Morfa Copperworks
• Pembroke Castle
• Swansea Castle
• Carmarthen Castle
• Dinefwr Castle
• Denbigh Castle
• Caerphilly Castle
• Conwy Castle
• Harlech Castle
• Penrhyn Castle
• Tredegar House
• Plas Mawr, Conwy
• Beaumaris Castle
• Kidwelly Castle
• Raglan Castle
• Swansea City Football Ground
• Moriah Chapel (Loughor)
• Tabernacl (Morriston)
• Siloh Chapel (Swansea)
• Ewenny Priory
• Palace Theatre (Swansea)
• St Dyfnog’s Well (Llanrhaeadr)
• Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay
• Taff’s Well Spring
• Nantgarw Pottery
• Hetty Pit
• Llantrisant Guildhall
• Plas Llanelly
• The Triangle (Merthyr Tydfil)
• Hoover Factory (Merthyr Tydfil)
• National Mining Memorial (Senghenydd)
• Universal Colliery

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Appointment of the new Royal Commission Secretary: Christopher Catling, MA, FSA

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is pleased to announce that its new Secretary (Chief Executive) will be Christopher Catling, MA, FSA.

Chris is well-known as a journalist, author, and consultant on the historic environment. He is the editor of the Society of Antiquaries’ highly regarded online newsletter Salon and a regular contributor to Current Archaeology and Country Life. He is the Director of the Marc Fitch Fund, managing investments of £7m and making grants of £200,000 annually to support academic research and publishing in the fields of history, archaeology and art history.

He sits on a number of boards and advisory bodies, including Cotswold Archaeology (of which he is Vice Chairman), the British Archaeological Awards and the Gloucester Diocesan Advisory Committee. He helped set up the All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group in 2000 to raise the profile of archaeology in both Houses of Parliament, and in 2002 he set up Heritage Link (now the Heritage Alliance), establishing its constitution, membership, funding base and Heritage Update newsletter.

Chris is the author of a number of best-selling travel guides, including the Eyewitness Guides to Venice and the Veneto and to Florence and Tuscany, as well as A Practical Handbook of Archaeology: a beginner's guide to unearthing the past. As a consultant he has researched and written numerous conservation management plans for bodies such as English Heritage and The National Trust and other organisations, including those for Dover Castle, Leeds Castle and Knole, which have supported recent successful bids for funding from the HLF and other bodies.

The Royal Commission’s Chairman, Dr. Eurwyn Wiliam, said ‘I am delighted to welcome Chris as our new Secretary. He has an excellent track record of demonstrating the social and economic value of our heritage and in persuading others that they should understand and care for our past more effectively. In welcoming Chris I also wish to pay tribute to the sterling work of Mrs Hilary Malaws who so readily agreed to postpone her retirement to stand in as Acting Secretary for the past year.’

After his recent visit to the Commission, Chris said

“It is a great honour to be entrusted with this role and I am fortunate to be joining such a competent and versatile team. The Commission's recent research into the Welsh slate industry, nonconformist chapels, the archaeology of the Welsh uplands and maritime heritage are examples of important projects that create the knowledge base to enable crucial decisions to be taken about the future of our past. The fruits of that research are then made available to the people of Wales through books, exhibitions and lectures, the Coflein online database and through the outstanding collections that make up the National Monuments Record for Wales in Aberystwyth.”

“We know that there are many people in Wales who are as passionate about heritage as we are, and we plan to find ways to involve more people in our work. The Commission has already run a very successful project researching medieval houses in Snowdonia working with volunteers. We hope to build on this to develop effective ‘citizen science’ and volunteering systems with some of the 700 or so heritage groups that exist in Wales. That is the challenge for the future that I look forward to: ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to take part in the rewarding and enjoyable work of exploring, recording and understanding the distinctive heritage of Wales."

Christopher Catling will take up his post on 2 March 2015.


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Minecraft comes to Digital Past

We are excited to announce that Adam Clarke from The Common People will be a keynote speaker at Digital Past 2015! Adam is a freelance artist, film-maker and games-for-learning consultant who has pioneered the use of Minecraft in cultural, heritage and environmental education and engagement for younger audiences.

In projects such as Tatecraft, Adam is creating accessible worlds where the 12+ million global players of Minecraft can participate, learn from, enjoy and be inspired. He has also been instrumental in setting up projects using MinecraftEdu, a version of the game that has been developed as a school-ready remix, specifically designed for the classroom.

Digital Past 2015
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Presenting the Europa Barbarorum Project at Digital Past 2015

The Europa Barbarorum project is a volunteer organisation composed of academics, technicians, programmers, artists and other volunteers that has sought to present a historically accurate depiction of the later Iron Age (272BC-AD14) in the form of modified versions of mainstream computer games. Since conception it has received critical and popular acclaim from both the gaming community and wider populace.

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Lamb, Faction Coordinator and Researcher for the project will be speaking at Digital Past and will look at the issues surrounding the way the past is depicted, with a paper titled ‘Don’t dumb it down, historical accuracy is fun: Discussing the Europa Barbarorum project and its impact on the gaming community’.

Website: http://www.europabarbarorum.com/
Twitter: @EBTeam

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DigVentures at Digital Past 2015

Founded in 2011, DigVentures is an innovative social enterprise committed to designing, developing and delivering community archaeology projects throughout the UK and further afield. Projects have included Flag Fen Lives, the world’s first crowdfunded and crowdsourced archaeological excavation, and the recently launched DigStarter, the world’s only crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform dedicated exclusively to helping archaeology and heritage projects launch sustainable projects, build communities and profile, and raise funds.

Brendon Wilkins, Project Director at DigVentures will be talking about all this and more.  A must for anyone interested in Community Archaeology, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing and the Future of Archaeological research.

Website: http://digventures.com/
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Llŷn Crowd Sourcing Project to be showcased at Digital Past

Digital Past 2015 will be showcasing an innovative crowd sourcing project undertaken by the Llŷn Archaeology and History Society.  The society was founded in 2013 and aims to become a model for a virtual society, one that combines the traditional values of county societies with new technologies and a focus on engaging wider audiences.

Simon Jones and Jamie Davies will be speaking about a project undertaken in 2014 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Royal Commission publication Caernarvonshire: West III: An inventory of the Ancient Monuments in the County. A website based on the publication has been developed and contains original digitized site records, plans and notes against which residents or visitors to the Llŷn can add comments and upload photographs to provide an updated snapshot of the Peninsula’s archaeological and built heritage today.

Facebook: http://cy-gb.facebook.com/archllyn
Website: http://www.crwydro.co.uk/aberdaron
eBook: Caernarvonshire: West III: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in the County

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