Job Title: Administrative Assistant

Line Manager: Executive Director

Salary: £24,500-£26,500 per annum

Location: Sheffield

Closing Date: 9am on Friday 20 February 2026

The Role:

ETO are seeking an organised and enthusiastic administrator to join our busy team as we relocate to Sheffield. The role will provide valuable support across the organisation and play a key role in ensuring our administrative processes run smoothly at a crucial time. This is an ideal job for someone who is highly organised and proactive and has rigorous attention to detail who wants to work in a respected and well-established cultural organisation.

Please see full responsibilities and specifications in the attached job pack.

About English Touring Opera:

ETO is an Olivier award-winning opera company with a mission to make our artform accessible to all.
Since 1979, ETO has toured outstanding live productions and impactful education and community
projects to more towns and cities than any other UK opera company, reaching over 30,000 people
per year. As an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, we tour exceptional and
ambitious theatre-based productions across the country, performing rare, unjustly underperformed
repertoire that is neglected by the rest of the sector. With an average ticket price of £26.81, we are
committed to breaking down financial barriers to opera and challenging the perception that the
artform is elitist. It is an exciting time for ETO, as we establish ourselves in our new base of
operations in Sheffield as part of the ACE Transfer Programme.

ETO creates award-winning educational opera experiences as part of our Learning & Participation
(L&P) Programme. We tour participatory opera across the country for infants, children, families, and
Learning Disabled young people and we deliver creative workshops for young people in secondary
schools and Alternative Provision settings. Through our multifaceted approach, we work carefully
with participants to deliver activities that reflect their backgrounds, interests, and needs, alongside
important issues such as climate change and mental health.

How to Apply:

Please email your CV (maximum two pages) and a separate document (maximum two pages) that answers the following four questions to admin@etopera.org.uk. Please use the following four questions as headings:

1. Tell us about your biggest success or a piece of work of which you are most proud.

2. You’ll have to work as part of a busy team in this role. Please can you give us an example of how you’ve worked in a team before?

3. You will often be the first point of contact for public enquiries about the organisation. Could you give us an example of your approach to customer service and/or dealing with members of the public?

4. This is a varied role that comes with many competing priorities. What would your approach be for managing this kind of workload?

Please also fill in the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, which will be anonymised, stored separately from your application, and will not be considered as part of it.