Your Pride In London

2022 marked the 50th anniversary of Pride in the UK  and we are now planning for the future, making it an exciting time to join Pride in London as a volunteer. 

Pride in London has a renewed sense of purpose to highlight the challenges still facing the LGBT+ community today despite progress. We are run by a group of volunteers who are passionate about equality and diversity and are drawn from all walks of life. Pride aims to raise awareness of LGBT+ issues and campaign for the freedoms that will allow all of our community to live their lives on a genuinely equal footing.

Around 150 people volunteer year-round to help us deliver what has become a world-class Pride. It is our intention for Pride in London to best represent all parts of our community.

We continue to actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, particularly women, people of colour and those from the trans and non-binary communities.

The role:

Our website serves as a window to the world and should be a leading lgbt+ digital platform. We want to take it to the next level ensuring that it is responsive to our ever evolving event, the Pride movement and LGBT+ communities.

We are looking for a passionate, talented head of website development to join our volunteer team who will be responsible for web development, leading build, coding, digital design, programming and audience engagement.

You’ll be adept and confident in managing a team of developers as well as selecting, motivating and training volunteers.

Your role:

• Lead web development scoping, planning, and technical architecture for all projects involving UI.
• Manage a small development team to ensure technical quality, product quality, and efficient use of resources.
• Take a hands-on development approach to creating new pages and features across the whole stack, with a specific focus on the presentation layer.
• Perform code reviews and provide feedback on all internal and external code.
• Maintain relationships and connections to other teams to ensure that integrations are maintained and enhanced.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement new technology that is beneficial to the digital goals of the organization.
• Perform root cause analysis on product and process deficiencies, and define and implement changes.
• Ensure the development team is effectively engaged and that products in development match resources available.
• Regularly communicate with the marketing and communications teams to discuss direction, strategy, and priority.

Your Profile:

• 5+ years of web development, including experience on large-scale web products
• 2+ years managing a development team and technology vendors.
• Strong knowledge of the modern web environment–from the presentation tier (HTML/CSS/OO-JS) through webservers and caching, reasonable knowledge of server-side development including PHP and database development, and the management of hosting infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of Accessibility – understanding the legal requirements to ensure that Pride in London maintain an accessible website

What you’ll get joining Pride in London

• A friendly and welcoming induction course and a variety of training that’s offered throughout the year

• An opportunity to get new and relevant professional experience

• A chance to broaden your professional network

• Play an important part in delivering the Pride in London event

• Social opportunities to meet the diverse and friendly bunch who volunteer for Pride in London

Diversity & Inclusion

Our volunteer team is more than amazing – they inspire great ideas, generate needed sponsorship, drive forward our operational plans and help make Pride in London a fantastic place to volunteer.

We endeavour to attract and recruit a diverse mix of volunteers who are representative of the diversity in our LGBT+ communities which gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to to deliver an inclusive event that you expect from Pride in London.