Patrons & Fundraising Engagement Manager

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

Salary: £32,000 - £36,000 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: Monday 20 July 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.

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 consider yourself a relationship fundraiser. This is a people-first role where engaging with donors over the phone and face-to-face will be the norm. You don’t have to have a background in philanthropy - you could have experience across community fundraising, corporate partnerships, individual giving or mid-value fundraising. The most important factor is that you understand fundraising and enjoy building great relationships with supporters and donors.

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced fundraiser to step into a management-level role, or for a candidate looking to specialise in mid-value, Patrons and membership fundraising.

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.