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Current Vacancies

DIRECTOR

Closing date for Applications: Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The Trustees of the Wallace Collection invite applications for the post of Director, which falls vacant on the retirement of Dame Rosalind Savill in October 2011.  The Wallace Collection is one of the United Kingdom’s great national museums and an internationally-renowned collection of the fine and decorative arts.  It was bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace in 1897 and remains in the domestic environment of the family’s London town house.

The ideal candidate will maintain the Wallace Collection’s traditions as a scholarly institution.  He or she will be a specialist in a particular area of the fine and decorative arts relevant to the Collection, and have a proven publishing record.  The candidate will also have senior-management and fund-raising experience, vision and eloquence, will enjoy promoting the Collection in an ambassadorial role, and will lead with enthusiasm the challenge of taking the Wallace Collection to the next stage in its development.

To request a full Job Description and application pack please write to:

Paul Little

Personnel Manager

The Wallace Collection

Hertford House

Manchester Square

London

W1U 3BN

Email: paul.little@wallacecollection.org

Tel:    020 7563 9544

Required Documents