Production Lead, Stages Team
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.
Your Role
This is a great role for a Production Lead that wants to get a new string to their bow. You will be the main point of contact for one of our stages on the day and will have a team of Production Managers who you will oversee. The Production Lead will collate and collect all artist information prior to Pride in London. This includes lyrics, music and production requirements. On the day you will be the linchpin between the Talent, Stage Management and wider Pride Team, ensuring that all production elements are in place for each artist prior to their arrival.
- You will need to ensure the above process takes place and muck in some times to help during busy times.
- Working with the Talent Team you will ensure the artist has an effortless time.
- The role requires interaction with performers, suppliers, community group and other affiliates of Pride in London so good communication skills are key.
- You should have a good understanding of events and production.
- The Stages Team is responsible for delivering an authoritative, inclusive diverse production across currently 5 sites on the day of Pride in London, Leicester Square, Soho Square, Dean Street, Golden Square, Trafalgar Square including when required additional talent support to Family Area.
Your Team
You will be heading up a small team of production coordinators (2-3 team members), responsible for your specific stage. Your team will make up part of the Stages Team who who oversee production for all Pride in London stages.
Your Responsibilities
- Mentoring, guiding and training junior members of the team.
- Collection, monitoring and recording of all stage content from artist. This includes tracks, lyrics, production requirements and any other relevant information. This is mainly email based and requires requesting and then recording all data as it is sent in.
- Chasing any outstanding content.
- Regular, scheduled meetings with team.
- Role model for Pride in London’s values and behaviours.
- Support by providing necessary tools/knowledge/experience to enable delivery of plans.
Community
- Ensure that production is in the interests of the LGBT+ community and meet with diversity and inclusion.
- Maintain high levels awareness surrounding current threats and challenges toward the LGBT+ Community - advises directors of risks and potential mitigation.
What you'll bring to Pride in London
- Experience in the field isn’t necessary but to do the role you should be proactive, amenable and organised, with a 'can do attitude' and have a keen interest in being part of the Pride in London Stages Team.
- The role can be email and admin heavy especially in the few weeks leading up to Pride in London. It often will mean juggling conflicting deadlines.
- The ability to influence and communicate at all levels of the organisation as well as cross functionally is key.
- Lead by example, a role model to direct reports and broader team, upholding Pride in London’s values.
- The role typically can take around 5-10 hours a week with more required in the weeks before Pride in London. You should also be free to work on the day of Pride in London.
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.
