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!

Pride in London stands committed to truly representing every facet of our community. We celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion. Our focus is on enriching the diversity of our volunteers, ensuring that Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled, Trans, and all communities are vividly reflected within our teams.

Application Closing Date: 21st February

Interview Week Day: 25th February

Your Role

The Access Administrator plays a key role within the busy Pride Access team creating and maintaining the administrative infrastructure for the internal team. This role involves formulating policies, procedures and practical guidelines as well as supporting the Access Team on the operational delivery of its “Quiet Parade”. The Access Administrator will work closely with other teams within the ops team to provide proactive, reliable and confidential administrative support in the lead-up to Event Day.

• This role has a flexible start time however we would be looking for someone who can start as soon as possible.

• Availability to volunteer on the day of the event (Saturday 5th July) is essential.

• Availability to attend online Access Meetings at 4:30pm on Tuesdays is essential

• Availablilty to attend in-person Ops Meetings in Central London on the first Saturday of each month and all Saturdays across June is desired.

Your Responsibilities:

• Assist in formulating policies, procedures, and practical guidelines as necessary in support of Equality, Diversity and Inclusive (EDI) practice and strategic inititives.

• Assist in preparing EDI papers, briefings and training for the management, working groups and volunteers within Pride In London.

• Support the Access Team in its operational delivery to achieve their accessibility accreditation.

• Provide proactive, reliable and confidential administrative support to the Accessibility Team.

• Manage the quiet parade, confirm the venue and confirm Audio Description.

What you'll bring to Pride in London

• Good Understanding of Accesibility: Either through previous experience or keen interest.

• Strong People Management Skills: Working within a large, active Access Team aswell as alongside a wider Pride Operations Team.

• Experience using Google Suite

• Initiative: Ability to use own initiative and take ownship of any task through to completion.

• Strong Organisational and Time Management Skills: Working within existing systems and processes aswell as developing new ones to meet operational deadlines.

• Positive Attitude: Having a flexible approach to tasks and approaching activities with enthusiasm.

• Problem Solving: Ability to problem solve as an individual as well as being able to seek out information from others to make decisions.

• Commitment to Inclusivity: A deep understanding and respect for LGBTQIA+ rights, with a commitment to ensuring a positive and inclusive event experience.

What you’ll get joining Pride in London

• Be yourself, no masks!

• Friendly Induction, year-round Training

• Opportunity to be a crucial part of delivering the Pride in London Parade

• Expand network

• Connect with Volunteers

• Commitment to celebrating diversity and promoting inclusivity

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 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.