Events and Communications Officer

Kaleidoscope Trust (KT) is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to advancing the rights of LGBTI+ people internationally. Founded in 2011, we aim to create a world where all LGBTI+ individuals are free, safe and equal. To ensure LGBTI+ rights remain a priority on global agendas, we take a three-fold approach:

• We strengthen capacities and build networks and movements, by supporting a diverse range of international LGBTI+ partners and networks to access the skills, training, and financial resources they need to be able to shift hearts and minds and create enabling environments for policy and legal change.
• We advocate for inclusive policy change, by generating data-driven evidence that amplifies our partners’ lived experiences and priorities and by ensuring political leaders and government officials have access to the accurate, timely and relevant information needed to effectively challenge anti-LGBTI+ narratives and strategies and drive positive change.
• We enhance collaboration and coordination among stakeholders, by building networks and connecting grassroots organisations with political actors in strategic spaces to drive meaningful and lasting change for LGBTI+ communities across the Commonwealth and around the world.

Kaleidoscope Trust is proud to be a founding member of The Commonwealth Equality Network and to host its Secretariat. Our partnerships with LGBTI+ communities across the Commonwealth have informed our approach to inclusion and equality, in the workplace and beyond.

We are an open organisation, committed to having great working practices that enable all team members to have ownership over their work. We are committed to employing and nurturing a diverse range of people, and especially encourage applications from women, the vast and varied members of the LGBTI+ community, the multiply-marginalised, and People of the Global Majority.

The Events and Communications Officer will help KT communicate its work clearly, connect with key audiences, and bring people together through communications and events that support our strategic goals.

The role is an exciting opportunity to get stuck into different areas of KT’s work and play a central role in helping to deliver a number of our key events and projects. We are looking for someone with a can-do attitude, who is a team player, and who is looking to grow professionally by building their skillset and helping to deliver KT’s work across different areas linked to communications, events, and digital analytics.

This role, within the broader policy and public affairs function, will play an important part in the delivery of focused, strategic communications, including supporting the development of original content that reflects KT’s expertise, partnerships, and impact.

This role will also provide high-quality operational and administrative support to help deliver critical functions in support of priority projects/events, including:

• Communications operations
• The Global LGBTI+ Rights Commission
• KT’s organisational set events, such as our annual Parliamentary Reception and various other corporate partner engagement events
• Provide dedicated support to TCEN communications and member-facing activity (under one day a week), in KT’s role as the member hosting the network’s Secretariat.

The post-holder will gain experience in a range of skills areas, including communications, public affairs and advocacy, event management, and stakeholder engagement.

The Communications and Events Officer will report to the Head of Policy and Public Affairs.

Communications Operations and Administration