Head of PR (Volunteer Role)
This is your opportunity to design and implement strategies that cultivate our relationships with media٫ engage our target audience and boost our brand awareness.
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Your Pride In London
Following 2022’s 50th anniversary, Pride in London is building out its volunteer team as we look forward to our next 50 years.
Pride in London has a renewed sense of purpose to highlight the challenges still facing the LGBT+ community today despite our community’s 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, such as women, people of colour, marginalised or minority communities and faith groups, and those from the trans and non-binary communities.
Your role at Pride In London
We are looking for a Head of Media Engagement to join our communications team.
Pride in London is a high profile event that attracts media and news attention all year round. We are looking for someone able to engage with inbound enquiries, proactively reach out to the media, and to contribute to the Comms leadership team’s strategic and tactical approaches. We are looking for a candidate who recognises the importance of public perception of the organisation’s activities, and who can contribute to decision making, share concepts, mitigate reputational risk and provide crisis communications management.
The Head of Media Engagement will report into the Deputy Director of Communications
Responsibilities
Lead the delivery of Pride in London’s media relations, earned media campaigns and publicity efforts. Build an integrated strategic plan for maximising communications opportunities and ensuring consistency in overall messaging. Work with the Comms Director/Deputy Director to coordinate and manage press calls and launches.
Develop and deliver media engagement strategy in collaboration with marketing, communications and organisational objectives, establish clear strategic goals for the team, and ensure results are delivered.
Coordinate with the Comms Director/Deputy Director to build (and if needed, implement) crisis and issues communications on behalf of the organisation, develop and maintain the crisis communications plan, and ensure media team readiness. Ensure our approach to reputation management and crisis comms is first in class.
Foster and maintain relationships with senior news, communications and media executives to facilitate advantageous placement of Pride in London’s editorial on a routine basis in national and international media.
Brief Pride in London spokespeople ahead of media engagements, including drafting briefing materials.
Coach and mentor a team of media/press officers.
What you’ll bring to Pride in London:
A clear commitment to the values and ambitions of Pride in London
Experience of leading a team in comms, media or news
The ability to think creatively and strategically
Highly-organised and self-motivated
Strong proofreading and copywriting skills
Ability to act on initiative
Proven decision-making skills
Excellent communication skills, internally and externally
Flexible attitude and approach to work
Friendly, efficient and helpful attitude critical - Pride in London operates a zero-tolerance policy to bullying of any kind
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, lead our comms 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 deliver an inclusive event that you expect from Pride in London .
- Department
- Communications
- Role
- Media Engagement
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Our Culture
Our volunteers are driven and passionate about what they do. Putting on one of London's largest one-day events requires dedication and perseverance.
Although a lot of our work is completed remotely, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet with your team and others throughout the year to not only plan what's ahead but to socialise too.
We're looking for enthusiastic people to join the organisation so we can provide a platform for every part of London’s LGBT+ community.
About Pride in London
Pride in London is wholly run by a group of volunteers who are passionate about equality and diversity. We are a not-for-profit organisation, and any surplus funds we raise are used to support the LGBT+ communities and improve the event.
Pride in London includes people of every race and faith, whether disabled or able-bodied, and all sexualities and genders including lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, queer, questioning, intersex, trans*, genderqueer, gender variant or non-binary as well as straight and cis allies.
Head of PR (Volunteer Role)
This is your opportunity to design and implement strategies that cultivate our relationships with media٫ engage our target audience and boost our brand awareness.
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