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Assistant Director City Development
Economic development plays an essential part in the city's economic growth and prosperity, with key growth sectors including financial services, life sciences, fintech; creative and cultural industries; hospitality and leisure, and advanced manufacturing. Cardiff is a leading investment location among the UK Core Cities. The city is also an important tourist and visitor destination, attracting high-profile sporting, cultural and music events to support the city's economy.
This is an opportunity to lead a new City Development Service within a leading public sector organisation with 15,000 employees delivering over 700 individual services to over 362,000 residents. A recent independent peer review found that Cardiff Council is a 'good and ambitious Council' with a 'can-do and optimistic' culture.
About The Job
You will be responsible for leading a new service within the newly formed Development and Growth Directorate covering the following services: Business development; inward investment, tourism, city centre management, economic policy, culture, sport and leisure, Cardiff City Region, UK city partnerships and securing and managing external grants.
What We Are Looking For From You
You will be creative, experienced and accomplished manager with an appetite to explore new ways of working across boundaries and sectors to secure the best possible outcomes for Cardiff, the capital city of Wales and one of the UK's Core Cities. We want the right people with the technical skills, managerial capacity and innovation to support the Council's political leadership in the delivery of an ambitious policy agenda and the achievement of our vision of a 'Stronger, Fairer, Greener' Cardiff.
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You will possess excellent stakeholder management skills to foster and build credible and lasting relationships. You will have the ability to think strategically and to lead and develop complex organisational issues with ease.
A confident communicator who is politically astute, you will quickly establish effective professional relationships across a range of stakeholders and partners.
This post is politically restricted in accordance with the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (as amended by Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009).
Mae datblygu economaidd yn chwarae rhan hanfodol yn nhwf economaidd a ffyniant y ddinas, gyda sectorau twf allweddol yn cynnwys gwasanaethau ariannol, gwyddorau bywyd, technoleg ariannol; diwydiannau creadigol a diwylliannol; lletygarwch a hamdden, a gweithgynhyrchu uwch. Mae Caerdydd yn lleoliad buddsoddi blaenllaw ymhlith Dinasoedd Craidd y DU. Mae'r ddinas hefyd yn gyrchfan bwysig i dwristiaid ac ymwelwyr, gan ddenu digwyddiadau chwaraeon, diwylliannol a cherddoriaeth proffil uchel i gefnogi economi'r ddinas.
Mae hwn yn gyfle i arwain Gwasanaeth Datblygu'r Ddinas newydd o fewn sefydliad sector cyhoeddus blaenllaw gyda 15,000 o weithwyr sy'n darparu dros 700 o wasanaethau unigol i dros 362,000 o drigolion. Canfu adolygiad annibynnol gan gymheiriaid yn ddiweddar fod Cyngor Caerdydd yn 'Gyngor da ac uchelgeisiol' gyda diwylliant 'cadarnhaol ac optimistaidd'.
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Byddwch yn gyfrifol am arwain gwasanaeth newydd o fewn y Gyfarwyddiaeth Datblygu a Thwf sydd newydd ei ffurfio sy'n cwmpasu'r gwasanaethau canlynol: Datblygu busnes; mewnfuddsoddiad, twristiaeth, rheoli canol y ddinas, polisi economaidd, diwylliant, chwaraeon a hamdden, Dinas-ranbarth Caerdydd, partneriaethau dinasoedd y DU a sicrhau a rheoli grantiau allanol.
Beth Rydym Ei Eisiau Gennych
Byddwch yn rheolwr creadigol, profiadol a medrus gydag awydd i
ystyried ffyrdd newydd o weithio ar draws ffiniau a sectorau i sicrhau'r canlyniadau gorau posibl i Gaerdydd, prifddinas Cymru ac un o ddinasoedd craidd blaenllaw'r DU. Rydym am gael y bobl iawn sydd â'r sgiliau technegol, y gallu rheoli a'r arloesedd i gefnogi arweinyddiaeth wleidyddol y Cyngor wrth gyflawni agenda bolisi uchelgeisiol a'n gweledigaeth o fod yn 'Gryfach, Tecach, Gwyrddach'.
Bydd gennych sgiliau rheoli rhanddeiliaid rhagorol i feithrin ac adeiladu perthnasoedd credadwy a pharhaol. Bydd gennych y gallu i feddwl yn strategol ac arwain a datblygu materion sefydliadol cymhleth yn rhwydd.
Yn gyfathrebwr hyderus sy'n wleidyddol graff, byddwch chi'n sefydlu perthnasoedd proffesiynol effeithiol yn gyflym ar draws ystod o randdeiliaid a phartneriaid.
Mae'r swydd hon wedi'i chyfyngu'n wleidyddol yn unol â Deddf Llywodraeth Leol a Thai 1989 (fel y'i diwygiwyd gan Ddeddf Democratiaeth Leol, Datblygu Economaidd ac Adeiladu 2009).
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CARDIFF COUNTY COUNCIL
Cardiff, UK
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Published on 8 Jun 2026
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