Are you a senior conservation officer, or a senior planning or design officer with responsibilities for conservation in a local authority? Or do you work in a heritage or conservation planning based private practice with a particular interest in contributing to the wider heritage and conservation sector?

The Historic Towns and Villages Forum (HTVF) www.htvf.org is seeking people with expertise and experience to join its Board, contributing to the development of its influence and activities, and creating further links with other organisations.
 
The HTVF is currently a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. The Board meets around four times a year, in Oxford, London and virtually. Board members lead specific aspects of the Forum’s activities, and promote wider interest in the benefits of membership and participation in the services it offers. The HTVF’s members include local authorities, town and parish councils, civic and amenity groups, national advisory bodies, consultancies and private companies, plus individuals. The Forum has begun the process of becoming a charity to align our constitution more closely with our aspirations, and to raise the profile of our activities with future supporters. Experience and an interest in becoming a Trustee in due course will be helpful.
 
Through its events programme, the HTVF addresses the strategic and current interests of its broad membership, and the opportunities and challenges presented to those managing change in historic places and settlements. The HTVF also provides best practice guidance and undertakes action-research projects.

If you are interested, please send your details including a CV to the Chair of the HTVF, Steven Bee, and the Executive Director, Louise Thomas: htf@kellogg.ox.ac.uk

Expressions close 22 May 2023

Heritage Trust Network is recruiting for a new post of Heritage Trainee (Graduate) for a fixed term of 6 months. This exciting post has been designed to help the successful graduate develop on-the-job skills, knowledge and networks to help them gain early-career access to the heritage sector.

Working alongside our staff team, the successful applicant will develop engaging content for our digital channels; support staff with planning, promoting and delivering events; support the processing of members’ casework queries; review and update Toolkit and the website; undertake member research and data entry; attend Board meetings; support the co-ordination and development of the youth forum and undertake site visits accompanied by a member of staff.

The post is perfect for someone who has recently graduated and has an interest in heritage and the regeneration of communities through the use of historic buildings, structures and spaces. Training and equipment will be provided.

Full details of the job and how to apply are in the recruitment pack. Please tell us if you require the details in a different format.

The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 15th May.

The post is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thank you to players of the National Lottery.

There is an open campaign to appoint six new Trustees to the Board of the Wallace Collection. The six roles being recruited to are:

• Academic/curatorial/conservation
• Architecture/buildings
• Fundraising (at least one role)
• International
• Human Resources 

The Wallace Collection, as you may know, is a collection of the fine and decorative arts formed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by four successive Marquesses of Hertford and the 4th Marquess’s son, Sir Richard Wallace.  It was left to the British nation in 1897 and opened as a national museum in June 1900 in Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1, a Grade II listed building in central London. The museum is internationally famous for its collection of French eighteenth-century art, European and Asian arms and armour and for its Old Master paintings.

It is managed by a Director who reports to a board of Trustees appointed by the Prime Minister and is financed by a combination of grant-in-aid from the central government and self-generated income.

Closes 3 May 2023

Closes 4 May 2023