Edinburgh Fringe 2026 - Club Bar Duty Manager

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.

The role we are currently recruiting for is our Club Bar Duty Manager. The Club Bar is our passes bar for artists, management and industry professionals. High quality customer service is vital and experience working in a similare environment such as a high end cocktail bar or hotel is essential. You will be working within a team of 3, 2 of which are returning senior members of the team. Weekend and late night work is required in this role due to the operational hours of the bar.

Roles are available in Edinburgh throughout August to cover the Fringe Festival.

Rate of pay starts from £750 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

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Opportunities

  • Assembly Theatre - Roxy General Manager
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 9th August 2026

    Assembly Theatre Ltd is seeking a dynamic and passionate individual to take the day-to-day reins of Assembly’s beloved year-round home.

    The Roxy General Manager works with the Roxy Production Manager, the Board and a Front of House and Bar team to seek out and deliver a high quality and economically sound Performance and Event Programme across this vibrant city centre Arts Centre.

    Location: The position is based in Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, though some home working and flexible working patterns may be considered.

    Hours: Evening and weekend work may 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: £32,850 per annum, paid in monthly instalments.

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  • Edinburgh Fringe 2026 - Assembly Festival Bars Team - Part Time Weekend Roles
    Apply before 5:59pm on Sunday, 2nd August 2026

    We are looking for superstar Bar team members!

    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.

    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. These roles we are currently recruiting for are PART TIME WEEKEND hours ranging from 8-20 per week.

    Team Roles are paid above Real Living Wage at £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.

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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.