Opportunities
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Edinburgh Fringe 2026 - Site Presentation Team
Apply before 6:00pm on Friday, 26th June 2026We are looking to hire experienced and enthusiastic individuals to join our site team in maintaining Assembly festival sites throughout the busy summer period. Working with our site management team, the presentation team will ensure all sites run smoothly and look fantastic to help welcome thousands of Fringe go-ers to our sites and venues.
Roles are available in Edinburgh for the live festival dates in August: 5th - 31st August. Build/Break work is also available for the work periods around live operation: please apply direct for this work.
Roles are paid the Real Living Wage at a minimum of £13.45 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 2026 - Build & Break / Site Crew
Apply before 11:08pm on Sunday, 14th June 2026We'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.
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Assembly Roxy Production Manager
Apply before 11:59pm on Wednesday, 3rd June 2026Assembly Theatre Ltd is seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to support the technical management of Assembly’s beloved year-round home. Assembly operates the Assembly Roxy on a year-round basis providing Edinburgh with a multi-functional arts centre, with spaces to rent for theatrical, wedding, personal and corporate needs as well as setting the standard for theatre, comedy and entertainment on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Working with Assembly's Management Team, the Roxy Production Manager will focus on working with the Roxy General Manager to accommodate and present the commercial and non-commercial events, theatre work, music concerts and other shows within the Roxy throughout the year. During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the role will focus on supporting the Programming and Technical teams in the delivery of the Festival shows in the Roxy spaces as well as Checkpoint, and being the primary technical point of contact for each of the incoming companies.
The position is based in Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, though some home working and flexible working patterns may be considered.
Hours: Evening and weekend work will be required. The employee is entitled to twenty-five days leave per year, plus eight public holidays, at such time as agreed in advance.
Salary: £32,000 per annum, paid monthly.
Assembly Festival
Assembly Festival 2026
Edinburgh City Centre - 5th August - 31st August 2026
Assembly Festival is one of the longest-running and most prestigious of the multi-space venues operating as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For more than four decades we have welcomed thousands of artists onto the Assembly stages. Last year presented around 250 shows across August and this year Assembly Festival once again brings back the magic to the city and be a part of the 79th Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
We have come a long way since our first festival 45 years ago, in Edinburgh when our founder and artistic director William Burdett-Coutts OBE took on the iconic Assembly Rooms venue to host several shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and this year we are hoping for it to be our best yet!
Our temporary roles are now live on this site - please apply as soon as possible, as we do close our applications once the positions are full. Listed are all our current vacancies and available roles, and how to apply for an opportunity to join the team working on these exciting events.
