Community & Outreach Lead - Social Media (Volunteer role)
Your Pride In London
Year after year, London's Pride celebrations bring people together in amazing ways. The connections and community we build lay the groundwork for a brighter, more inclusive future. Now's your opportunity to play a meaningful part as a Pride in London volunteer.
Pride in London is embracing a renewed sense of purpose that resonates with everyone. We stand as a beacon to highlight ongoing challenges within the LGBTQ+ community, even amidst progress. Our roots intertwine the protest origins of Pride with the spirit of celebration.. Our guiding values – Visibility, Unity, and Equality – drive every step we take.
Our incredible team is a blend of passionate staff and volunteers who champion diversity, inclusivity, and understanding. We hail from diverse walks of life, forming a vibrant community of change-makers. Our ultimate goal? To amplify awareness of LGBTQ+ matters and advocate for the rights that ensure equal lives for all.
With a diverse and dedicated year-round team of around 150 volunteers, we orchestrate Pride in London, the incredible event that unites us all. Your unique voice can contribute to the symphony!
Your Role
Pride in London is looking for an enthusiastic and community-focused individual to take on the role of Community & Outreach Lead. In this role, you’ll oversee engagement on our social platforms, strengthen Pride in London’s connection with its community, and ensure our platforms are maintained as safe, inclusive spaces.
Your Team
You’ll work closely with the Head of Social Media and a copywriter to promote Pride in London’s social platforms as vibrant hubs of community representation and interaction.
Your Responsibilities
- Engage directly with followers across platforms, fostering meaningful conversations and adapting tone and format for each platform and audience.
- Gather insights and report on trending topics using social listening tools, informing content creation and better meeting the needs of our community.
- Build and maintain relationships with Pride in London ambassadors, LGBTQ+ influencers, and activists, aligning their efforts with our campaigns to maximise reach and impact.
What You’ll Bring to Pride in London
- Strong understanding of social media platforms, community engagement strategies, and influencer outreach.
- Interpersonal skills to promote external communications and relationship building.
- Experience in advocacy or community management is a plus. A passion for amplifying LGBTQ+ voices is essential.
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.
- Department
- Communications
- Role
- Social Media
- 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 LGBTQ+ 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 LGBTQ+ 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.
Community & Outreach Lead - Social Media (Volunteer role)
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