Technical Co-production and Hire Coordinator

Location: Scottish Opera Production Studios, Edington Street, Glasgow 
Hours: Permanent position - 28 hours per week, to be worked over four week days from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
Salary: £25,481.39 – £31,145.65 (pro-rata) depending on experience 

Scottish Opera is Scotland’s national opera company. We take world-class opera to all corners of the country, ensuring as many people as possible can enjoy this wonderful art form. 

We are looking for an Technical Co-production and Hire Coordinator. The main purpose of the role is to provide proactive and professional administrative support to the Technical Director, and Technical Heads of Departments by coordinating and managing co-productions with partner organisations and production hires to clients. This will include preparing, coordinating, and maintaining the technical information required for co-productions and production hires within the technical department and shared throughout the Company.

Other responsibilities include:

• To respond to clients / potential clients’ production hire enquiries and coordinate information across departments in order to answer requests about rentals of specific productions. This includes confirming availability, providing archive recordings, technical information for scenery, costumes, props and production documentation.
• To coordinate and monitor production hires from the preparation of contracts, customs documentation, organising transport and shipping arrangements, to over-seeing the dispatch and return of hired productions at Scottish Opera premises.

The person we are looking for should have at least 2 years’ experience in a general or technical administration role. Experience of working in a production support or stage management role would be advantageous.

You must be computer literate to at least intermediate standard in the use of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel and OneDrive and have experience in preparing reports and spreadsheets, with the ability to analyse and interpret data.

Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills are required and possessing a relevant Health and Safety qualification (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely) would be desirable.

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.