Creative Music Animateur

Location: Glasgow (Edington Street, Glasgow) & Hybrid Working

Salary: £24,573.15 per annum

Contract: Full-time, 2 Year Fixed-term, 35 hours per week

Closing date for applications : Tuesday 11 August 2026, 11.59pm

Are you an early-career musician with a passion for inspiring others through music? Scottish Opera is offering an exciting development opportunity for a Creative Music Animateur to join our Outreach & Education team. This new role is part of our Emerging Artist Programme.

This unique role is designed to help you build a career in creative learning and community engagement. You'll work alongside experienced creative practitioners, musicians and educators, gaining hands-on experience across a wide range of schools and community projects while receiving mentoring and professional development throughout the programme.

You'll have opportunities to:

• Develop and deliver creative music workshops in schools and community settings
• Work alongside The Orchestra of Scottish Opera on engaging education projects
• Support our Community Choirs and Children's Chorus, with opportunities to lead rehearsals and workshops
• Contribute to innovative wellbeing projects, including Breath Cycle and Memory Spinners
• Gain experience in project planning, facilitation and creative learning, while developing your own artistic practice

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a degree in Music
• Has experience delivering music-based workshops
• Is an excellent communicator with a positive, flexible approach
• Enjoys working collaboratively and is committed to their own professional development
• Willing to travel across Scotland as required

This is an exceptional opportunity to learn from leading creative professionals, develop a broad portfolio of experience, and make a meaningful impact through music in communities across Scotland.

If you're passionate about music, creativity and inspiring people of all ages through the arts, we'd love to hear from you.

General Terms & Conditions

Contract: Full-time, Fixed-term (2 years)
Hours: 35 hours per week, worked 9.30am to 5.30pm with a 1-hour unpaid lunch break
Annual salary:  £24,573.15 per annum
Holidays: 25 days per annum plus 10 Public Holidays (pro rata)
Probationary period: 3 months
Pension: You will be automatically enrolled into a qualifying workplace pension scheme (QWPS). You will contribute 4% of your salary, the Company contributes 8%.

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.