Are you our new Communications Coordinator?

About Copenhagen Pride

Copenhagen Pride is a volunteer-led community organisation that organises events focused on LGBTI+ human rights, politics, social inclusion, culture, performance and free expression and assembly. We are part of a global movement of more than 2,000 Pride organisations worldwide.

Our best known events are Copenhagen Pride week each August and Winter Pride each February, but we organise events throughout the year. We are approaching our thirtieth anniversary in 2026 and today we are known throughout the world for our events, including WorldPride in 2021. We’re proud to deliver an event that Forbes magazine described as ‘iconic’.

Our team

It’s the job of our small Secretariat team to deliver to the strategy set by Copenhagen Pride’s board, and to support our team of Area Managers, all of whom are volunteers. The team includes the Head of Secretariat, Event & Production Manager, Production Coordinator, Event & Communications Intern and our Partnerships Specialists. 

We work out of the Copenhagen Pride office at Farvergade which is often a hive of activity all year round. We are a friendly, relaxed workplace with a great coffee machine and a drive and determination to get things done. 

About the Communications Coordinator 

The Board together with our agency partner and Head of Secretariat agree on our communications strategy and workplan, and the Communications Coordinator is responsible for execution of these plans.

As the front line of our communications and often the first point of contact for the media and public, the Communications Coordinator holds a key role within Copenhagen Pride all year round. It is a highly pressured role that is sometimes unpredictable and often demanding but one that is extremely rewarding. 

Job description

The Communications Coordinator’s tasks are in four key areas: media relations, social media, website, and event live communications. Tasks are as follows:

1. Working with our agency partner HAVE Kommunikation you will be the front line in the daily management of our reactive media relations. This includes taking calls and emails from journalists, negotiating access, and writing press releases and briefings.
2. You’ll also be responsible for our proactive media relations, pitching stories to print, online, radio and tv, also in liaison with HAVE Kommunikation.
3. You will regularly be asked to write short- and long-form articles for publication in Danish and English, often on behalf of the organisation or a colleague. 
4. Plan and schedule posts on all Copenhagen Pride social media channels according to the content plan.
5. Respond to comments and messages in a timely manner.
6. Manage content on the Copenhagen Pride website, including adding new content and editing existing content.
7. During Copenhagen Pride events – principally Winter Pride in February and Pride in August but with other events throughout the year – leading and managing all Copenhagen Pride communications.
8. You’ll manage our paid and volunteer photographers and videographers, and our media library on Canto.
9. Helping to recruit, train and lead volunteers to support communications activities, especially during our event live periods. 

Person specification 

Essential 

1. Experience of managing media relations, including responding to journalist enquiries, pitching stories and ideas, and crisis communications
2. Experience writing press releases, lines to take, briefing notes and speeches
3. Experience of managing multiple social media accounts for a professional organisation including scheduling posts, responding to messages, and strategising channel growth and minimising attrition
4. Experience of writing copy for web, publications and editorial, and of proof-reading
5. Experience of editing websites, ideally in WordPress
6. Understanding of corporate communications, decision making processes, accountability and responsibility.
7. Fluent in Danish and minimum professional level of written and spoken English

Desirable

1. Understanding of the LGBTI+ community and human rights
2. Experience of live events, including event management
3. Experience of working with commercial partners and NGOs
4. Development and implementation of communications strategies and workplans
5. Experience of working with a Board
6. Graphic design software including InDesign and/or Canva 
7. Working with volunteers, including volunteer management
8. Working with external contractors, including contract management
9. Driving licence

Applicants must already have the right to live and work in Denmark. Applicants must be able to take up the position no later than 1 July 2024 (and ideally during June). Under Copenhagen Pride’s terms of employment, vacation cannot be taken in weeks 7-8 and 27-34 inclusive.

How to apply 

Send your resumé with a cover letter, explaining why you would like to be Copenhagen Pride’s Communications Coordinator, to our Head of Secretariat, Steve Taylor, no later than 17.00 on Thursday 2 May 2024. Please include your salary expectations and the date on which you would be available to take up the post, if appointed.

Email [email protected]. 

Informal questions about the role can also be sent to this email address.

First interviews are expected to be held on Thursday 9 May 2024.