Jobs

Development & Box Office Assistant

This role sits across the Development and Box Office team. The team is responsible for running all of Garsington Opera’s membership programmes, fundraising from individuals, corporates and trusts & foundations and administering all ticketing and catering for the annual summer Festival.

Post: Development & Box Office Assistant
Reporting to: Development Manager and Head of Ticketing, Box Office & Membership Services
Salary: £24,000 – £26,000 per annum
Application deadline: 9am Wednesday 26 March
Interview date: Tuesday 1 April
Start date: End of April/early May

Find out more in the job description linked below. Applications should be submitted via email to admin@garsingtonopera.org

Job Description

Thank you for your interest in working with Garsington Opera. There are currently no vacancies. For future opportunities please check back as opportunities will be advertised here.

As a seasonal festival, each year there are various opportunities to work at Garsington Opera both on and off the stage in a wide variety of roles. To find out more about how to apply for these opportunities, please see our Seasonal Roles page.

Applications for our 2025 Chorus and Emerging Artists’ Programme have now closed.

If you would like any further information please email auditions@garsingtonopera.org or explore our Emerging Artist page via the button below:

Emerging Artists

Each year, we offer a week of intensive work experience for a limited number of young people between the ages of 16 and 18.  It’s a great chance to find out how a producing theatre works and to highlight the many career opportunities in producing and making shows, in our case particularly opera.

This intensive experience covers a full range of departments across the organisation, offering the opportunity to learn how a theatre/opera business works and how all departments contribute to the company’s overall delivery of Opera.  There will be opportunities to shadow various departments: Marketing, Development, Box Office, Learning & Participation, Company / Artist Management and backstage technical departments.

As part of this opportunity you will:

• Connect with creative industry professionals across various roles in the sector
• Discover the extensive range of career opportunities within a theatre/opera company
• Understand and learn the key skills required in the workplace: listening, speaking, problem solving, creativity, teamwork and staying positive

The application window for our 2025 work experience placements has now closed.  Applications for 2026 opportunities will open again in the Autumn.