Performing Arts Digital Resident

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

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.