Development Manager

Prospect/Bectu seeks an experienced and motivated Development Manager to lead and grow CULT Cymru’s learning provision including the Mental Health and Wellbeing Programme. The postholder will develop strategic partnerships, secure funding, and provide leadership to lead CULT Cymru’s vision of enabling cultural change across Wales’ creative industries—making them fairer, healthier, and more inclusive.

The role requires close collaboration with CULT Cymru staff, unions, advisory groups, employers, Welsh Government, and stakeholders, while embedding strong Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and creative sustainability principles throughout all activity.

We are passionate about learning and are led by our trade union values of empowering and supporting the workforce, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, the Welsh language, healthy workplaces and creative sustainability /green agenda.  In this role there will be opportunities for you to develop your skills as you seek to make a difference to others in their working lives.

If you are a team player who enjoys marketing and promotion, collaborating with individuals, want to enable and support creative workers and thrive in a role that combines strong marketing and organisations skills with creativity, we would love to receive your application.

Please click on the "more information" button above to apply.

We embrace diversity and strive to bring learning opportunities to workers who are under-represented in the creative industries e.g. people from global majority backgrounds, LGBTQ+, disabled, Deaf and/or neurodivergent people and those from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds.  

Applicants will need to send a cover letter, the completed application form and equal opportunities monitoring form by Monday 2nd November, 2026 @ 12.00 to  recruitment@prospect.org.uk

We aim to inform you asap whether you are to be invited to interview.

Interviews will be held in our offices in Cardiff on Thursday 19th November 2026

If you are disabled [1]or have a long-term health condition, it is important that you let us know your access requirements. please include in the email submitted with your application. We want to make sure you are treated fairly if shortlisted for interview. This may include communication support, additional time or a remote interview etc.

Do contact the office if you wish to discuss this in confidence before you submit your application. Please contact us should you require any of the information in alternative formats.

Our aim is to enable a supportive application process as we wish to instil confidence in those who apply.   If you have any comments on the process, please let us know as we continually strive to improve our systems and processes.  

We look forward to receiving your application.