Business Development Lead

Creative Scotland; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 11,000 - 13,000; Part time

Job summary

A community arts organization based in the UK seeks a Business Development Lead to enhance income streams and social impact. This part-time role involves building relationships to drive sales and creative projects, while offering remote working options. Ideal candidates are creative doers with business development experience. Flexible working arrangements available.

Benefits

Real impact

Flexible working hours

Access to partner networks

Qualifications

• Experience in business development or fundraising.
• Proven ability to turn relationships into revenue.
• Comfortable working in a startup or community-focused environment.

Responsibilities

• Grow income streams through various channels.
• Drive online sales via eCommerce strategies.
• Manage and nurture corporate sponsorships and commissions.
• Promote and convert enquiries for creative workshops.

Skills

Relationship building

Sales and marketing

Creative project management

Job description

Overview

Help write women back into Scotland’s history—and our future! We’re hiring a Business Development Lead to turn our momentum into sustainable growth. You’ll grow our income streams & fuel social impact.

At Protests and Suffragettes CIC, we’re building a Scotland where the stories of suffragettes and women changemakers aren’t hidden footnotes but vibrant, public, and everywhere — in schools, communities, murals, and on the open web. Over the next three years, we’re scaling workshops, murals, creative commissions, & a national community that will reshape how women’s history is remembered, celebrated, and taught — ramping toward the 2028 Centenary of the Equal Franchise Act (which gave all women in the UK the right to vote).

We’re hiring a Business Development Lead to turn our momentum into sustainable growth. If you’re a creative doer who loves turning relationships into revenue and purpose into partnerships, come build this with us!

Role details

Role title: Business Development Lead
Location: Glasgow + hybrid (open to applications from wider Scotland)
Contract: Part-time Freelance, 2 days/week (flexible working)
Fee: £13,000 gross over 9 months
Start: 5 January 2026 (or ASAP)
Reports to: Director

Why this role matters

You’ll be the connective tissue between our mission and our markets — growing income streams that fuel direct social impact: more school resources in more hands, more murals on more walls, more communities equipped to tell their own stories.

Your responsibilities

• Grow our income across these streams:


• Shop: Drive sales, secure museum/boutique stockists, and help onboard new merchandise.


• eCommerce: Drive online sales through targeted ads, SEOs, increasing our sales platforms, and making our customer journey sing.


• Commissions: Nurture leads for murals/creative commissions with corporate sponsors, third sector partners, & local authorities.


• Events/Tours/Consultation: Working with our Director, you’ll package and sell our ‘Suffragette Stall’, walking tours, and research/engagement consultancy.


• Patreon: Help design tiers and campaigns that turn supporters into subscribers, and grow our community of supporters.


• Workshops: Promote and convert enquiries for creative workshops in community groups, 3rd sector organisations, and educational institutions (HEIs/FEs).

What we offer

• Real impact


• Flexible, part-time working based in Glasgow + home/hybrid


• Learning & growth: access to partners & networks across culture, education, and social enterprise


• A kind, collaborative team culture with brilliant volunteers & national partners

Location: Dumfries and Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh City, Fife, Glasgow City, Perth and Kinross, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, West Dunbartonshire

The deadline is Monday 24 November 2025 at 10:00.

TAGGED:
Crafts / Education / Equalities / Visual Arts / Young People (aged 0 to 25) / Participatory Practice