Salary: Starting from £34,000 per annum, based on skills and experience
Full time; 40 hours per week
Permanent position
Based in: Covent Garden, London
Prior to commencing your application, please review our application guide here.
The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.
The Royal Opera House describes the place we work, not who we are. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts – we may be a House, but three quarters of our audiences experience what we do outside this building. While our Covent Garden theatre is the nerve centre, the impact and influence of the organisation can be felt in every corner of the country, and around the world.
The RBO Capital Programme is a significant 10-year initiative to renew and modernise the organisation’s estate, ensuring it can support future artistic and operational needs. Over the next decade, the programme will deliver a coordinated set of project packages to upgrade stage technology, artist accommodation, building infrastructure & systems, visitor facilities and workspaces, while improving efficiency and supporting sustainability goals.
We are now looking to appoint to the new position of Capital Programme Coordinator. This is a critical role in the programme team and will help to align resources, track tasks, provide comprehensive documentation and ensure clear communication across the project team, internal stakeholders and external partners. This role will provide proactive and high-quality coordination across the Project Management Office, as well as providing executive services to the Chief Operating Officer and Capital Programme Director as required, especially in relation to effective diary management.
The successful candidate will be a strong communicator, who is calm under pressure and can effectively manage the flow of high volume and complex information to and from busy stakeholders. You will have the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines with a capacity to work under pressure and coordinate busy workloads. Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of delivering project coordination, with the understanding and initiative to both ensure compliance with standard protocols and oversee small projects/project tasks to completion.
- Project process and documentation expertise including handling project spreadsheets, drawings, Gantt charts and other project materials, maintaining the appropriate asset bank and ensuring good governance and security
- Experience and understanding of how to deliver monthly project materials and reports for relevant senior groups (in this context for the Project Board, RBO Executive and Trustees as required)
- Experience of managing purchase orders, invoices, payments and expenses for project team
- Competency with Microsoft Office and self-sufficient office skills; with the ability to learn new systems and procedures and ensure that the project team can be swiftly operational and adapt to new systems
- An understanding of basic GDPR and confidentiality compliance with respect for confidential information
Previous experience in a large-scale project team, especially in relation to capital/building works will be highly regarded.
The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UK’s leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do. We want our people to be representative of the diversity in the UK. We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.
We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.
The RBO is also committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices. Due to our safeguarding promise, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check before commencing employment with us, which will be indicated in the advertising.
A full job description can be found here.
For more information about working with the Royal Ballet and Opera, please review the info pack here.
For a list of potential reasonable adjustments, please review this guidance document. If you have any access requirements for your application, please contact the RBO Recruitment Team on
[email protected]
If you are applying as an internal candidate, you might find this guidance document helpful.
Closing date for applications: 11:59pm, Friday 26th June 2026
To ensure a fair process, late applications will not be considered under any circumstances.
Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies.
