To apply for this post please submit your CV and a cover letter to recruitment@belfastpride.com 

Closing date:  30th August 2026

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Role type: 2 Year fixed-term /  (subject to funding confirmation)

Responsible to: Board Chair

Accountable to: Board of Trustees

Working with: Board of Trustees, Festival Committee, Communications & Public Affairs Committee, Finance & Governance Committee, statutory and community partners

Location: Belfast / Hybrid

Salary: £45,000

Belfast Pride is Northern Ireland’s largest LGBTQIA+ festival and one of the most significant Pride events in the UK and Ireland. Since 1991, we have brought communities together to celebrate visibility, identity and belonging – delivering over 120 events across eight festival days, welcoming 80,000 attendees in 2025, with a target of 92,000+ by 2029.

We are a volunteer-led organisation, registered as a limited company and governed by a Board of Trustees. In 2026, our 35th anniversary year – we are taking a landmark step: appointing our first ever paid Festival Director, made possible through CMAG funding. This is a transformational moment for Belfast Pride, and we are looking for the right person to grow with us.

The Festival Director will provide strategic and operational leadership across Belfast Pride’s festival programme, public affairs engagement and community development work. Working in close collaboration with Belfast Pride’s three sub-committees: the Festival Committee, the Communications and Public Affairs Committee and the Finance and Governance Committee – the Festival Director will provide operational leadership and cohesion across Belfast Pride’s work, translating the board’s strategic direction into delivery, while each committee retains clear responsibility for defining activity within its own strategic pillar.

This is a role for someone who leads through partnership and collaboration. The Festival Director will bring professional operational leadership capacity to an organisation that has achieved remarkable things through volunteer effort alone and will do so by supporting, strengthening and working alongside the committees and volunteers who are the backbone of Belfast Pride.