Job Description

Location: Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow & hybrid work with occasional travel to other locations across Scotland

Salary: £24,573.15

Hours: Standard hours are 35 hours a week, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch. Evening work and travel within Scotland will be required.

Contract: Fixed term (two years)

Closing date for applications: Sunday 26 July 2026 at 11.59pm

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company.  We take world-class opera to all corners of Scotland, ensuring that as many people as possible can enjoy this wonderful art form. 

We’re looking for a creative, digitally curious and enthusiastic person to join our Marketing & Communications team as our new Performing Arts Digital Resident. This two-year residency is designed to help emerging arts professionals build a career in digital communications. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you’ll gain hands-on experience creating engaging content, managing web updates, supporting digital campaigns, analysing audience insights and developing multimedia skills across photography, video and social media. You’ll start by learning the day-to-day operations of our digital platforms before progressing to creating original content and helping shape our online presence.

Key responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day management of Scottish Opera’s website and ticketing systems
• Create and publish engaging digital content for web, social media and internal communications
• Assist with photography, video production and multimedia editing
• Optimise digital content for accessibility, SEO and audience engagement
• Support customer enquiries and online bookings
• Prepare reports using website and audience data, including GA4 analytics
• Work with colleagues across the organisation to support marketing campaigns and audience development
• Help maintain digital assets and contribute to content planning

Apply via www.scottishopera.org.uk