Vacancy
Fundraising Support Officer
Hours: Full-time, permanent position, 35 hours per week
Location: Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow, and hybrid working
Salary: £22,965 - £27,557 plus benefits, depending on experience
Deadline to apply: Tuesday 13 May 2025
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.
Are you an organisational whizz with an eye for detail? Do you love keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? Join the Scottish Opera team as our new Fundraising Support Officer and help us hit all the right notes in securing vital support for the arts!
We’re looking for a proactive, reliable and friendly individual with fantastic administration and time management skills to support our busy Fundraising team. Whether it’s coordinating donor events, managing databases, or ensuring everything is filed and followed up, you’ll play a vital role in helping us raise funds to support Scottish Opera’s work across the country.
What you’ll bring:
- Excellent administration skills with strong attention to detail
- Superb time management and the ability to juggle multiple priorities
- Confident communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working with databases (CRM knowledge is a bonus, Spektrix in particular)
- A team player attitude with a willingness to learn
Why work with us?
You’ll be joining a passionate, creative and supportive team, with the opportunity to contribute to inspiring work on and off the stage. We offer hybrid working, a welcoming culture, and the chance to grow your skills in a unique arts environment.
How to apply
Applicants should email recruitment@scottishopera.org.uk providing an up-to-date CV, a covering letter detailing their suitability for the role and where they saw the vacancy advertised, and should also complete our Equality Monitoring Form.
All candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work in the UK and documentary proof of this will be requested at interview.
Closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 13 May 2025.
Our diversity and equality commitment
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.