UI / UX Designer (Volunteer Role) London, England
Job description
Your Pride in London
Join Pride in London as a volunteer and contribute to the success of the UK's largest Pride event!
At Pride in London, we have a renewed sense of purpose to shine a light on the ongoing challenges faced by the LGBT+ community, even in the midst of progress. Our organisation is driven by a dedicated group of volunteers who come from diverse backgrounds and share a passion for equality and diversity. Together, we strive to raise awareness about LGBT+ issues and advocate for the freedoms that will enable every individual in our community to live their lives on an equal footing.
With the help of approximately 150 volunteers who contribute year-round, we have established Pride in London as a world-class event. We are committed to ensuring that Pride represents the full spectrum of our community.
We actively encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, with a particular focus on promoting diversity. We welcome and value applications from women, people of colour, and those from the trans and non-binary communities. We believe that a diverse volunteer team enriches our organisation and strengthens our ability to make a meaningful impact.
The Role:
If you're a designer who lives and breathes user-centred design, then this could be the role for you. We're after designers to join the Digital team who are passionate about inclusivity and accessibility to help us serve the LGBTQ+ community better.
Over the past few years we've created our own bespoke website and app from the ground up. Now that we've got a great foundation to build on, we're beginning to test and experiment with new ideas. We will be re-developing the website with new UI and features, where you will be directly involved in making the website even more accessible and inclusive. We want to create new products to help support our community year round, but we can't do that without input from design.
The Digital team is focused on understanding our user needs and behaviours so that we can build the right solutions to solve their problems. Whether that's a year round events platform or this very volunteer application site, we create and evolve it, making sure that it is beautiful, accessible and delightful to use. In this role you'll be:
Supporting our insights team in UI/UX and usability research
Working closely with various departments to understand their user journey
Creating AA accessible designs and testing these with users
Working with our Tech team to solve design problems in efficient ways
Helping to evolve the Pride in London Digital brand
What you get out of it:
Working with an amazing team to grow and improve your skill set
To experiment with new software and/or design methodologies
Peer review of your work from other designers to help you upskill and improve your workThe opportunity to evolve a design system for the second largest event in London
Develop skills working with other departments, managing and mentorship others, and working within a product team.
How much time we need:
Each week you'll usually spend between 4-8 hours on Pride work. This includes a mixture of catch-ups, meetings and actual work. Depending on the projects we have on the go some weeks will be busier than others, but we know everyone has full time jobs and social lives so try to give plenty of notice of what's coming up.
We don't count it as Pride time, but the Digital team is a pretty social team and gets together when we can for fun too.
We need amazing, talented people to join our growing Product Design team. We strive to create amazing user experiences, and make a difference to the LGBT+ community. The digital team here at Pride is dedicated to understanding our users, their needs and behaviours. We're looking for people who are passionate about creating digital products across web and app through great user experience and design.
What you’ll get joining Pride in London
- A friendly and welcoming induction course and a variety of training that’s offered throughout the year
- An opportunity to get new and relevant professional experience
- A chance to broaden your professional network
- Play an important part in delivering the Pride in London event
- Social opportunities to meet the diverse and friendly bunch who volunteer for Pride in London
