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: Sunday 13th April

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT CANDIDATES WILL BE INTERVIEWED AS THEY APPLY, SO EARLY APPLICATION IS ADVISED AS THE ROLE MAY CLOSE SOONER 

● This role has a flexible start time however we would be looking for someone who can start as soon as possible and by no later then April 30th.

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

● This role carries an average volunteer time of 6-10 hours per week.

Your Role

The Event Directorate has four departments - Events, Pride’s Got Talent, Stages & Hospitality. 

The Head of Stages is responsible for delivering an authoritative, inclusive, diverse production across currently four sites on the day of Pride in London: Leicester Square, Dean Street, Golden Square, and Trafalgar Square, including, when required, additional talent support to Family Area. They must have a significant events knowledge of large-scale events and an understanding of production and how this links to the end-to-end event process. They need to lead from the front as the Stages Team is one of our most prominent and visible, so be a great team player willing to share duties.  

Your Responsibilities

People

• Recruitment of team & ongoing review of structure, roles and responsibilities of team

• Regular, scheduled meetings with the team to ensure the team is on track and flag anything that isn’t going to plan to the Director of Operations and Events

• Track all stage's progress and escalate any concerns

• Work with the Talent Team to ensure that they are across all key artists' requests that might affect the wider team

• Regularly attend Pride in London meetings to be the face of the organisation

• Role model for Pride in London’s values and behaviours in the way they act and present themselves  

• Support by providing necessary tools/knowledge/experience to enable delivery of plans for each stage

• Identifies talent to ensure succession within the team

• Set realistic objectives for the team in line with the Director of Operations and Events objectives

Financials

• Control of costs within budget set by the Events Director

• Seeks out opportunities to reduce or remove costs, such as production costs

• Community 

• Ensure that production is in the interests of the LGBT+ community and meets with diversity and inclusion.

• Maintain high levels of awareness surrounding current threats and challenges to the LGBT+ Community. Advise directors of risks and potential mitigation. 

Pride in London

• Seeks out opportunities to extend & drive reach, propelling the brand globally

Specific Stages

• Maintain records of equipment/stationary and other suppliers purchased by Pride in London to produce stages and ensured all was stored safely throughout the year.

• Works with events partners to ensure costs are minimised whilst providing LGBT+ audiences with a memorable experience and show

What you'll bring to Pride in London

• Experience of overseeing stages across multiple sites/venues (desirable)

• Good organisational skills with ability to coordinate multiple projects at once (Essential)

• Planned organisation the ability to influence and communicate at all levels of the organisation as well as cross-functionally (Essential)

• Previous experience in volunteer coordination, or people management (Desirable)

• Ability to collaborate effectively with different teams (Essential)

• Lead by example and be a role model to others around you (Essential)

• Passion for Pride in London and the LGBTQ+ community (Essential)

What you’ll get joining Pride in London

• A Chance to Build New Connections: Pride In London is made up of a diverse collection of individuals, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, allies and activists.

• Sense of Volunteer Purpose and Contribution: Volunteering with Pirde In London gives you the chance to be part of an important annual event which creates an impact on over a million attendees. Many of who it may be their first Pride or their first time in London.

• Networking Opportunities: Volunteers often get the chance to work alongside and interact with key figures and groups within the LGBTQ+ community aswell as hundreds of volunteers from all walks of life.

• Fun and Enjoyment: Volunteering at Pride puts you within a fun, celebratory and vibrant atmosphere, with the opportunity to volunteer at both Pride Event Day and many other events year round.

• Contribution to Social Change: Through volunteering with Pride In London, you will actively be contributing to the ongoing fight for equality and visibility for the LGBTQ+ community, and in turn, helping to create a more inclusive society.

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.