Role description
Title: Events and Outreach Lead
Contract: Part-time, four days per week (32 hours)
Location: Remote and at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
Salary: £34,000 full-time pa; pro rata
Length of employment: 6 month contract
Accountable to: Centre Manager
Key contacts: Centre Manager, Communications and Marketing Manager and General Manager
About the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre
We have an incredibly exciting opportunity to be part of the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.
We are an award-winning registered charity (charity number 1201531) launched by a team of volunteers in 2017.
Our mission is to provide London with a sober, intersectional, intergenerational, community centre and café where all LGBTQ+ people feel welcome and supported, can build connections, and flourish. Our vision is for a more connected, belonging and thriving LGBTQ+ community in London.
We’re looking for a creative Interim Events and Outreach Lead with excellent leadership skills and networking abilities to join us during a 5-month sabbatical cover.
As a community-led events space, this role is key to ensuring that our programme offers an exciting, inclusive and diverse range of activities catering to our entire community.
Role purpose and core accountabilities
Community events
- Manage our events calendar, including reviewing proposals and communicating with facilitators
- Manage events from inception to completion, in coordination with Centre and comms teams
- Support comms team in relation to events and their promotion
- Coordinate invoicing and liaise with Finance Lead to ensure payments are processed in a timely manner
- Manage venue hire agreements
- Ensure feedback is being collected after all events and coordinate feedback management with the Centre Manager
- Review feedback, implement improvements and coordinate response to the community
- Establish, maintain and develop relationships with event facilitators
In-house events and grant-funded projects
- Come up with ideas for programmes responding to the community’s needs and feedback
- Support the General Manager in preparing funding bids and designing programmes for successful applications
- Lead funded programmes and liaise with the General Manager for reporting
- Lead exhibitions and film club programmes
- Manage feedback collection and reporting for grant-funded events
Outreach
- Develop outreach audit annually to ensure the Centre welcomes as many people and sectors from the community as possible
- Develop an annual outreach strategy following audit
- Establish, maintain and develop relationships with other venues to expand calendar and identify collaboration opportunities with local organisations
- Establish relationships with other community venues across London with the goal of developing space-sharing relationships
- Maintain relationships with LGBTQ+ service providers across London and the UK to ensure the Centre’s signposting service is as up to date and effective as possible
Other
- As we are a very small team, everyone is expected to contribute to welcoming visitors, making sure the Centre is presentable before events and supporting facilitators with their set-up when working from the Centre
Requirements and skills
- Previous events and/or project management experience
- Great knowledge of the LGBTQ+ services landscape in London and ideally the UK
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent time-management and prioritisation skills
- Problem-solving skills and diplomacy
- Ability to manage budgets
- A flexible, community-driven, and creative approach to LGBTQ+ events
- Administrative and IT skills including Google Apps (Mail, Docs, Drive etc.)
- Self-motivation, proactivity and enthusiasm
- Great team working spirit
Due to the nature of the space as a safe community haven, safeguarding training will be provided and DBS checks will be carried out.
How to apply
Please send a short cover letter and your CV (no more than two sides of A4) to hello@londonlgbtqcentre.org by Sunday 14 September. Please include ‘Events and Outreach Lead Application’ to your subject line. Interviews will take place in the third week of September.
The successful candidate will be required to start as early as possible.
We particularly welcome applications from trans, non-binary and POC candidates. We are a disability positive employer and we welcome the opportunity to provide reasonable adjustments as defined by the Equality Act 2010 during the recruitment, interview process and upon appointment. Please inform us if you feel you meet this criteria and if you would like to apply following a different process.
Please note that while we have an advertised closing date, we will review applications on a rolling basis and/or close this advert if we receive an overwhelming response. You are strongly encouraged to apply as soon as possible for this exciting opportunity.