Corporate Partnerships Manager

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days per week based in the Scottish Opera head office in Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow.

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 p/a. Benefits include 8% employer pension contribution, free tickets to dress rehearsals, EAP and enhanced policies.

Hours: Standard office hours are 35 hours per week, 9.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, with an hour for lunch. This post also requires evening and weekend working when necessary.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 19 May 2026 at 11.59pm.

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the country’s largest performing arts organisation. Founded in 1962 to make opera accessible to all, the company presents productions of international acclaim, from early works to world premieres. Performances are designed to be inclusive, with supertitles, audio-described and dementia-friendly shows, free and discounted tickets for under-26s, refugees, asylum seekers, and schools, and touring productions reaching communities across Scotland.

We have developed our fundraising strategy and identified corporate partnerships as a clear area of growth and potential. As a result, we are bringing in this brand-new role to provide dedicated capacity and focus. The post holder will proactively develop the corporate pipeline, securing new partners and provide excellent account management to existing, valued partners.

It is an exciting time to join Scottish Opera. We have invested in our Fundraising team, there is organisation-wide support for fundraising, and many opportunities to engage potential partners across our annual programme. 

This role might be for you if you have broader fundraising experience, are looking to specialise in corporate fundraising, or are an experienced corporate fundraiser looking to step up to a manager level role. Experience working within an arts and culture charity would be helpful for the candidate to have, but is not essential.

At Scottish Opera, our mission is to speak powerfully through all our work in order to entertain, inspire, surprise, challenge and delight audiences throughout Scotland, the rest of the UK and internationally. We know that having a diverse workforce is essential if we are going to deliver our mission.

We are committed to promoting equality and ensuring that no one is denied opportunities or discriminated against through prejudice or exclusion due to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We particularly encourage applications from people that are under-represented in the Performing Arts and at Scottish Opera including those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. We have supportive working practices and work towards providing wherever possible a working environment that is inclusive and accessible for those with caring responsibilities.

This diversity of thought paired with a culture of inclusion is vital for us to continue to create work that is for everyone. This makes Scottish Opera a great place to work, where people are valued for who they are.

We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally.

Scottish Opera strives to be an equal opportunities employer and is subsidised by the Scottish Government.  Registered Number SC037531. Scottish Charity Number SC019787.