Community Social Enterprise Development Officer
Location: Carmarthenshire
Contract: Fixed-term - Ending 31/03/2027
Salary: £27,540 pro rata
Hours: 20 hours per week
Interviews to take place 12th January 2026
Help build stronger, more resilient communities in Carmarthenshire.
We’re looking for a motivated and community-minded Development Officer to support the growth and sustainability of social enterprises delivering care, support, and wellbeing services. If you’re passionate about community-led solutions and love helping people and organisations thrive, this role offers a chance to make a real impact.
What you’ll do
In this role, you will:
- Support social enterprises to grow and develop – offering practical guidance, mentoring, and signposting to specialist partners.
- Enable access to funding – supporting organisations to understand micro-commissioning and identify relevant grants and funding opportunities.
- Champion social enterprise locally – promoting achievements and raising awareness of the sector’s value through communications and engagement activity.
- Build strong partnerships – connecting organisations across community, voluntary, and statutory sectors through networking events and the Connecting Carmarthenshire platform.
- Strengthen governance and sustainability – linking enterprises to business support, helping them develop robust practices, and supporting them to evidence impact.
- Monitor and report progress – collecting data, producing quarterly updates, and contributing to evaluation and learning activities.
- Contribute to long-term sustainability – helping shape a plan that ensures resources, learning, and networks continue beyond the funded period.
What you’ll bring
You’ll need:
- Experience in social enterprise, community development, voluntary sector work, or similar.
- An understanding of care, support, or wellbeing services in Carmarthenshire or the wider region.
- Knowledge of commissioning and grant-funding processes.
- Experience of partnership working and community engagement.
- Confidence in monitoring, reporting, and communicating impact.
At Nacro, we believe in the power of a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those with criminal records and first-hand experience of the criminal justice system. All applications are assessed on merit.
This role with require a DBS check, Having a criminal record will not preclude your success in this role; any criminal record information will be subject to a fair and proportionate assessment. If you would like advice about applying for work with a criminal record, please contact our confidential Criminal Record Support Service on 0300 123 1999 or by email at [email protected].
Please note that this role does not offer eligibility for visa sponsorship. For more information on UK working rights, please visit GOV.UK Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
For Nacro's Candidate Pack please click here.