Community Development Manager

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Contractual hours 37

Basis Full time

Job category/type Social Care – Adults/Children

Date posted 22/10/2026

Job reference 19232

37 hours per week

Fixed Term up to March 2028

Bridgend County Borough Council is seeking an experienced and inspirational leader to provide strategic and operational leadership to the Community Development Team within the Prevention and Wellbeing Service.

This is a key leadership role, responsible for developing and delivering strategies, action plans and community-based interventions that tackle inequalities and improve outcomes for our residents.

The postholder will play a pivotal role in driving forward the Council’s Prevention and Wellbeing agenda, with a strong emphasis on enabling healthier, more active and resilient communities across Bridgend.

You will lead collaborative working locally, regionally and nationally, and oversee the operational management of:

• Child & Families Community Support services
• Age Friendly Communities programme
• Play Sufficiency Duty

As a member of the Prevention and Wellbeing Service Management Team, you will contribute to service-wide performance, transformation and partnership delivery aligned to corporate priorities.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.