Current Vacancies
Creative Producer – Push the Boat Out 2025
Are you a highly organised, creative, and collaborative producer with a passion for poetry and the arts? Do you thrive in a fast-paced festival environment? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
About Push the Boat Out
Push the Boat Out (PTBO) is Edinburgh’s International Poetry Festival, a vibrant platform for poetry, spoken word, and performance. We’re heading into our fifth year in 2025 and we’ve recently secured multi-year funding from Creative Scotland. We are in a strong position to continue our development and we need a Creative Producer to help make it happen!
About the Role
As Creative Producer, you will work closely with the Director and Production Manager to deliver a well-organised, high-quality festival in November 2025. You’ll also contribute to programming, artist liaison, logistics, and year-round event support. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the festival’s creative direction while developing your producing and programming skills.
Location: Remote (with regular meetings and on-site during the festival).
Fee: £12,600 (£180/day, approx. 70 days)
Contract: Freelance, April 2025 – March 2026 (option to extend)
To apply please send your CV and a cover letter (max 2 pages) outlining your suitability for the role to recruitment@pushtheboatout.org
Deadline: Monday 7th April 2025
Interviews: Thursday 17th April 2025 (online)
Volunteers
Our festival volunteers are absolutely vital to making the festival happen. From greeting artists and audience members when they arrive to helping keep everyone informed backstage, there’s a role to suit everyone who is interested in the poetry world or even just how events and festivals are put together. If you’d like to find out more information or how to apply, check out the role description here.
Festival Sponsors
We simply could not deliver our festival without the generous support of our funders and programme partners to whom we are incredibly grateful.