Full-time, 37 hours per week
12-month Fixed-Term Contract
Grade B: Starting salary of £27,591.
Location: This role can be based at any one of the Arts Council of Wales offices in Cardiff, Colwyn Bay or Carmarthen. We are currently working in a hybrid way.
Our benefits include 30 days annual leave, 2.5 privilege days, flexible working hours/pattern, cycle to work scheme and a final salary pension (6%).
About this role
The Creative Steps Enabler plays a vital role in supporting the delivery of the Creative Steps funding programme, acting as a key liaison between applicants, Creative Steps Mentors, Portfolio Manager, Development Officers, and the Team Coordinator. This position is crucial in ensuring the smooth administrative operation of the Creative Steps programme and supporting its mission to increase diversity in Wales’s arts sector.
The aim of the Creative Steps fund is to support individual artists and organisations who have experienced barriers to accessing our funding. The fund specifically aims to serve global majority, culturally diverse, disabled and neurodivergent people and helping them with their professional, business and organisational development.
About you
If you are someone who has good organisation and communication skills, this role could be for you. You will have highly developed IT and administrative skills and previous experience of providing high quality administrative services. You will need to work on your own initiative, prioritise and plan your own work, and be flexible and adaptable to the developing needs of the team.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and value the importance of living experience related to: Global majority / Cultural Diversity / Neurodiversity / Disability. Therefore, it is essential that the successful applicant will have this.
Please see the job description for the full detail of the role requirements.
Welsh language
We work in both English and Welsh. Fluency in Welsh (both written and spoken) is desirable but not essential for this post. Upon appointment we can support you to learn, develop and improve your language skills and to increase your confidence in speaking and writing in Welsh.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Arts Council of Wales is an inclusive employer, and we wish to reflect the diverse communities we serve. Applications from culturally and ethnically diverse people and underrepresented groups are encouraged and warmly welcomed. Applications are welcomed in Welsh or English and we will correspond with you in your language of choice. Applications submitted in Welsh will be treated no less favourably than applications submitted in English. We aim to take positive steps to ensure that all candidates are selected for jobs solely on their suitability for the role.
The Arts Council will provide support to ensure that you feel comfortable joining the organisation, the type of which may be new or unfamiliar to you, so that you can feel your best self at work. Mentoring or training will also be provided during the induction period, if required.
Disability confident Scheme
The Arts Council of Wales is a Disability Confident employer, committed to interviewing all disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria set out in the person specification.
Please refer to the Gov.uk Disability Confident Employer Scheme link for further details.
How to apply
Please submit the Application Form and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring Form in Word format to HR@arts.wales. If you would like to submit your application in an alternative format, such as voice note, video or British Sign Language video, please contact us first.
Closing date: 5pm Friday 6th June 2025
Interview date: W/C 16th June 2025
Flexible working
In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Please clearly state your proposal for working anything other than the advertised hours in your covering email upon submitting your application.
The Arts Council of Wales is an inclusive employer, and we wish to reflect the diverse communities we serve. Applications from culturally and ethnically diverse people and underrepresented groups are encouraged and warmly welcomed. Applications are welcomed in Welsh or English and we will correspond with you in your language of choice. Applications submitted in Welsh will be treated no less favourably than applications submitted in English. We aim to take positive steps to ensure that all candidates are selected for jobs solely on their suitability for the role.