Opportunities
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Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Bar Logistics Team
We are looking for superstar Bar Logistics team members and Supervisors!
As a Bar Logistics team member you will be responsible for ensuring our bars are set up with everything they need to serve. You will coordinate stock movements between multiple venues, accept and put away deliveries in our cellars and store rooms and work directly with the bar team to make sure drinks are flowing and customers are having a great time. We expect hard graft and an ability to work in a team with new people, creating a great working environment conducive to an amazing experience. This role requires you to be flexible and mature.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles.
Team roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £12.60 per hour
Supervisor rates start from £14.50 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Bar Managers
Bars are an essential part of the Assembly Festival experience, they are the social areas where audiences and performers gather, adding to the energetic buzz of the site. As a Bar Manager, you’ll be in looking after the Bars Team and Supervisors on the front line, serving drinks and making our customers day. This role is vital. We expect hard graft and an ability to work in a team with new people, creating a great working environment conducive to an amazing experience.
Our Bar Managers main goal is to ensure the customer receives the highest quality service and in assisting the smooth
operational running of the bar, making sure staff are fulfilling their duties to the best of their ability.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer.
Rate of pay starts from £660 per week paid fortnightly depending on bar and role (as hours of operation and responsibility differ depending on location).
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Bars Team
We are looking for superstar Bar team members and Supervisors!
Bars are an essential part of the Assembly Festival experience, they are the social areas where audiences and performers gather, adding to the energetic buzz of the site. As a bar team member, you will be on the front line, serving drinks and making our customers day. This role is vital. We expect hard graft and an ability to work in a team with new people, creating a great working environment conducive to an amazing experience. This role requires you to be flexible and mature. Your focus will be on making drinks, dealing with stock, keeping the bar and venue clean, working with other departments and being friendly to customers.
We are also looking for members of our logistics team who help manage stock deliveries around the sites and support bar operations, these roles can have early starts and require a good level of fitness to safely move kegs around our sites.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer.
Team Roles are paid at £12.60 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Supervisor rates start from £14.50 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Box Office Supervisors
The Box Office Supervisor's primary role is to ensure the customer receives the highest quality service and assist in the smooth operational running of the box office, making sure staff are supported to fulfil their duties to the best of their ability.
They are responsible for coordinating the team of box office assistants daily, ensuring that they are kept up to date with internal communications, coordination rotas, timesheets and maximizing box office sales through effective customer service, supervision and training of box office staff. You will be part of a well-trained team who have a thorough knowledge of the ticketing system and our Festival programme, have a professional manner, be a people person providing unbeatable customer service at this front-line position.
Rates of pay from £14.50 per hour. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Box Office Team
You will be part of a well-trained team who have a thorough knowledge of the ticketing system and our Festival programme. As a member of the Box Office team, you will be an important and skilled team member able to resolve customer queries, advise and direct customers. You will have a professional manner, be a people person and happy to gather and organise information for our customers, providing unbeatable customer service at this front-line position.
The Box Office Assistants main goal is to ensure the customer receives the highest quality service and in assisting the smooth operational running of the box office, making sure staff are fulfilling their duties to the best of their ability.
We operate 5 venue hubs so need a large team of strong customer focused and team members who are confident working with the public, are bright, bubbly and approachable.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the year.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £12.60 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Front of House Supervisors
The Front of House Supervisor will work as part of the Front of House (FOH) team to manage the smooth operation of the venues and the site before, during and after shows. The role will require an ability to manage a team and be aware of expected movements of audiences and performers, facilitating the fast turnaround between shows and to be the face of Assembly to audience members and performers.
Front of House Supervisors should be experienced within a theatre environment and have experiencing seating large venues quickly and with grace, the ability to lead a team and respond in a fast paced environment is required.
We operate 5 venue hubs so need a large team of strong customer focused and team members who are confident working with the public, are bright, bubbly and approachable.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer.
Rate of pay from £14.50 per hour, depending on venue and experience.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Front of House Team
Front of House Assistants (ushers) work as part of the Front of House (FOH) team to ensure the smooth operation of the venues before, during and after shows. The role will require an ability to work well within a large team and be aware of expected movements of audiences and performers, facilitating the fast turnaround between shows and be the face of Assembly.
We operate 5 venue hubs so need a large team of strong customer focused and team members who are confident working with the public, are bright, bubbly and approachable.
Roles are available in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £12.60 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Reception & Administration Support
The Administration Support & Festival Reception Team will be key to ensuring the smooth running of the office and supporting the teams within it, they are front line to our management offices and will meet and greet numerous performing companies, artists and agencies.
There are two positions available and start in Edinburgh from mid to end July and roll through until 30th August to cover the Fringe Festival and other events that we operate across the summer. Start dates may vary.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £12.60 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears. Evening and weekend work as required, you may be required to work on bank or public holiday.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Assembly Festival Technicians - Lighting, Sound, Stage Management and General Technicians
We are looking for experienced, Lighting, Sound, Stage Management and General Technicians to join our Edinburgh Team. Our venues range from 50 to 800 seats.
Roles are available in Edinburgh to build and work in our temporary theatre venues from mid July, and roll through until the end of August to cover the Fringe Festival performances. Some venues are also used for the Edinburgh Food Festival which may require a slightly earlier start date.
Roles paid dependent on experience, contract length and venue size on a tier system - between £3700 to £4250 for the build, break and operational period of the Fringe Festival.
Staff are required to be 18+ due to the licensed nature of our sites, and have a legal right to work in the UK, no Visas are able to be offered for these roles. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Build & Break / Site Crew
We're looking for enthusiastic and experienced team members to join our site carpenters and Site Managers to help build and break the Festival as well as experienced site crew for the run!
We're interested in hearing from you if you have experience in construction/carpentry/festival or event building/fencing and scaffolding and painting as well as plant operators or build crews. Roles are offered on a contract basis and run on varying dates between June an July for the build and late August to September for the break.
There are additional site crew roles based on a full time rota across the festival.
Roles are paid dependent on skill set and experience but are no less than £13.60 per hour. -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Street Food Team - Kitchen Staff, FoH staff and Supervisors
Assembly’s Street Food stalls are an essential part of the Assembly Festival experience, they are the social areas where audiences and performers gather, adding to the energetic buzz of the site. As a Street Food team member, you will be on the front line, creating meals that bring smiles to punters faces and warmth to their bellies. This role is vital. We expect hard graft and an ability to work in a team with new people, creating a great working environment conducive to an amazing experience. This role requires you to be flexible and mature. Your focus will be on prepping for and serving meals and beverages, dealing with stock, keeping the food stalls and venue clean, working with other departments and being friendly to customers.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £12.60 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears.
Supervisor roles are paid from £14.50 per hour, paid fortnightly in arrears -
Edinburgh Fringe 2025 - Venue Production Manager
We're looking for top notch production managers to join our Fringe Team! The role will oversee the build, technical rehearsals and running of the venue (and sub-venues) from a technical perspective, as well as assisting the senior technical team with visiting company shows.
The Production Manager (PM) is Assembly’s representative at all times. You will work alongside a Venue Manager, to ensure the smooth running of the venue, and the surrounding site including bars, concessions and any Box Offices within that domain. The role is a management position and as such responsibilities include representing Assembly with incoming companies and our Landlords; budget management; assembly team management; suppliers and associated contracts management. The PM will be responsible for all staff working in the venue.
This role is paid a fee of up to £8500 for the role for the period depending contract length and operating period of the venue offered
Assembly Festival
Assembly Festival
EDINBURGH 30th JULY - 26th AUGUST 2025
In 2024 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a total of 868 artists came from 27 countries to perform with Assembly Festival at the world's largest arts festival. Our programme featured a total of 3,940 performances, with over 453,000 tickets being issued to 204 shows. They were supported by a team of over 650 Assembly Festival staff, all of whom were paid at least the UK real Living Wage. Assembly Festival’s award-winning programme garnered over 3,290 stars from the media, more stars than are present on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Please find listed all our current vacancies and available roles, apply for a chance to join our amazing team at the world's largest arts festival.
