Royal Opera House - Estates & Facilities Director

Job Description

Title: Reports to: Direct Reports:

Estates & Facilities Director Director of Operations Head of Facilities; Environmental Sustainability Manager; Special Projects Programme Manager; Renewal Programme Manager (Technical);

Background

The Estates of the Royal Opera House comprises three buildings: the main site in Covent Garden includes a 2,000+ seated theatre which dates from 1858, and redeveloped stage and newly developed rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, workshops offices and ancillary spaces sating from a large-scale capital project completed in 1999, and a second theatre and refreshed front of house spaces delivered via the Open Project in 2018. The ROH’s Production Workshop and Costume Centre are located in Thurrock, Essex and a 14,000m2 sore in Aberdare, Wales. Together the facilities enable the organisation to deliver a complex and busy production schedule and support the work of 1,000s staff, artists and creative people to stage opera and ballet to exacting standards.

The Royal Opera House has committed to reaching net zero by 2035 (with an earlier target of 2030) for scope 1 and 2 emissions and to set targets on scope 3 emissions by 2025.

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