Chair

Remuneration: Unremunerated (reasonable expenses reimbursed)

Location: London

Time Commitment: Approximately 3-4 days per month

Terms of reference: The term of office would be three years in the first instance, with the option for re-appointment for a second 3-year term (and to a third 3-year term in exceptional circumstances).

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) is the charity established and funded by the UK Government to promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) in the UK.

Our purpose is to promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day as the UK’s national day to commemorate the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur; to encourage people to learn lessons from the past and take steps to challenge hatred and persecution.

Our present Chair, Laura Marks CBE, will have held the role for nine years when she steps down in the summer of 2025. Under her leadership the Trust has advanced greatly and is now widely recognised and acknowledged for its work in leading not only the national commemoration of the Holocaust each January but also for its work in commemorating the subsequent genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur and Rwanda and in spreading the messages to be learned from all of these tragic events throughout the year to schools, local authorities, community groups and many other organisations throughout the UK.

We are now seeking a Chair who has the ability and emotional intelligence to engage effectively and sympathetically with a very wide range of colleagues, stakeholders and opinion formers in an area which remains for many one of the most harrowing in human history.

Deadline for applications: 14 July

Interviews with Prospectus: 18 – 26 July 

Interviews with Holocaust Memorial Day Trust: w/c 9 September 

If you wish to have an informal discussion about the opportunity, please contact our retained advisors, Børge Andreassen or Emily Hayman at Prospectus on 020 7691 1920, or email:

Borge.Andreassen@prospect-us.co.uk 

Emily.Hayman@prospect-us.co.uk