Production Team Lead

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.

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

● This role carries an average volunteer time of 6-8 hours per week.

Your Role

As a Production Lead at Pride in London, you'll play a critical role in delivering our vibrant, authoritative, and inclusive production across our celebrated stages. With a keen eye for detail, you'll mentor junior team members, ensuring all essential stage information is gathered while embodying Pride's core values. Your expertise will drive regular team meetings, content collection, and provide the knowledge needed for successful execution. Most importantly, you'll be our community guardian—ensuring productions authentically represent the diverse LGBT+ community, staying vigilant about current challenges, and advocating for inclusive representation at every turn. Join our highly visible team to create meaningful celebrations while developing tomorrow's Pride production talent.

Your Responsibilities

• Mentoring, guiding and training junior team members to ensure we gain all the relevant information that we need for the stage they are leading on.
• Guide the production assistants in the collection of content.
• Chase any outstanding content.
• Conduct regular, scheduled meetings with the team.
• Be a role model for Pride in London’s values and behaviours.
• Support by providing necessary tools/knowledge/experience to enable delivery of plans.
• 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.

What you'll bring to Pride in London

• Experience in the field isn’t necessary, but the candidate should be proactive, amenable, and organised.
• The role can be email and admin-heavy, especially in the few weeks leading up to Pride in London.
• A can-do attitude and a desire to be part of the Pride in London Stages Team (Essential).
• Ability to juggle multiple deadlines at once (Essential).
• The ability to influence and communicate at all levels of the organisation and cross-functionally (Essential).
• Lead by example, a role model to direct reports and the broader team (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 Pride 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 whom may be experiencing 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 as well 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, giving us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allowing 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.