Planning Assistant

Contract: 1-year fixed term

Hours: 35 hours per week with hybrid working available

Location: 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow, G2 4PT 

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Closing date for applications: Sunday 14 September 2025

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland.

We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Planning Assistant to support the Planning Manager in coordinating the Company’s busy schedule of productions, projects and events.

This varied role involves preparing and maintaining schedules, attending key meetings, liaising with colleagues and external partners, and ensuring accurate and timely communication across the organisation.

We’re looking for someone with strong administrative experience, excellent attention to detail, and confident IT skills. A collaborative, proactive approach and a passion for the arts are desirable.

Based at our Glasgow city centre headquarters, this is an exciting opportunity to play a central role at the heart of Scotland’s largest performing arts organisation.

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.