Hospitality Lounge Manager (Volunteer role)
A super exciting role....join us as our on-the-day Hospitality Lounge Manager, where you'll look after a wide-ranging and diverse group of guests.
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.
Your Role
We are looking for an outgoing and fun person to join us in a temp role to manage our on-the-day Hospitality Lounge. The Lounge plays host to wide a range and diverse group of guests. You'll lead a team to create a true Pride In London welcoming experience.
Your responsibilities:
- Manage the distribution of guest invitations and all communications.
- Liaison with the external catering team ensuring that service levels are maintained at all times.
- Oversee the smooth running of the front of house area, ensuring all visitors are greeted appropriately and setting the tone for a good day.
- Comply with all Health and Safety regulations.
What you’ll need:
- Ability to work with discretion and integrity when dealing with high profile guest
- Successful background in Food Service/Contract Catering/Hospitality
- Previous experience in managing an events team
- Exceptional hand-on experience in food &beverage service
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills
- Reliable and Committed
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, capture Pride moments and help make Pride in London a fantastic place to volunteer and work.
We endeavour to attract and recruit a diverse mix of employees and 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. Therefore, we actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, particularly women, people of colour and those from the trans and non-binary communities.
** This role is temporary until 15th July 2023**
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 run in majority 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.
Hospitality Lounge Manager (Volunteer role)
A super exciting role....join us as our on-the-day Hospitality Lounge Manager, where you'll look after a wide-ranging and diverse group of guests.
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