Parade Route Team Lead (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 of Pride in London.

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.

We invite you to join us and become part of Pride in London's journey.

Your role

The role of ‘Parade Route - Team Lead’ will be our lead volunteer in charge of overseeing the Parade Route on the day including the safety of participants and spectators. This hands-on role will see you working across a multitude of internal and external stakeholders.

Please be aware that this role is an ‘all year round’ role and therefore there will be time required from you before and after the event. As a minimum we expect this to be 4 hours a week however this will likely increase from April-July. This role also requires you to be available on July 5th for Pride.

Your Responsibilities

• Main point of contact for Event Control for Parade route related events on the day
• Oversee and lead a team of volunteer stewards and supervisors
• Provide training for ‘on-the-day volunteers’ such as supervisors
• Attend briefings and team meetings as required
• Lead point of contact for public and participants for general information, dealing with lost children/property/first aid enquiries and liaising with Event Control
• Liaising and working with external security teams to ensure safe crowd control and assisting with the management of crossing points along the parade route
• Raising awareness of any issues regarding set up before parade
• Ensuring the parade keeps moving to time

What you’ll bring to the role

• Excellent leadership and team management skills
• Strong strategic planning and execution abilities
• Effective collaboration and communication skills
• Excellent organisation skills
• Resourcefulness and problem-solving abilities
• Experience of outdoor event management is desirable or a willingness to learn
• A genuine commitment to LGBTQ+ issues, equality, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion

Role Details

Volunteer Role

What you'll get from Pride In London:

• Be Yourself, No Masks!
• Friendly induction, year-round training
• New professional experience
• Expand network
• Connect with volunteers
• Commitment to celebrating diversity and promoting inclusivity

Diversity & Inclusion

Pride in London embraces diversity and inclusion. We recognise that diversity of background, experience and thought enrich our community and empower innovation.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all gender, ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as ages, sexual orientations, abilities, beliefs and experiences. Creating an environment where people feel comfortable being their true selves fosters creativity and community.

Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities to qualified individuals without judgement or discrimination. As a member of our team, you can expect fair treatment and genuine consideration.