Event & Community Lead
Salary: £33-38k
Community at Colorintech
Our community connects professionals, students, entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others to create a more inclusive and accessible tech industry in Europe. As the leading UK-based nonprofit focussed on this work, we’ve built a growing community of over 65,000 people and are enthused about how we reach more people
The Role
Colorintech is looking for a driven and self-motivated Events and Community lead to help engage and grow our community. This role reports directly to the founders with very close collaboration with the marketing and program teams.
If you are passionate about building and developing communities that create a diverse technology industry, this role is for you.
What you'll be doing
* Manage our communities, including planning, creating, sourcing and sharing content, resources, and discussion topics to encourage member engagement.
* Form and deepen relationships with individual key community members. Help identify champions and partner with the Marketing team to highlight them.
* Use tools including Active campaign, Linkedin and Whatsapp to segment, track and build engaging communications
* Drive growth in our community while maintaining intimacy and delivering value to all members as we scale.
* Ideate, coordinate and run our events, including webinars and in person ‘mixers’ highlighting our community, ecosystem and corporate partners.
* Produce proposals for events (including timelines, venues, suppliers, staffing and budgets)
* Manage and coordinate stakeholders, including suppliers, corporate partners, speakers etc.
* Report on key metrics of success for our community efforts and propose strategies to evolve and improve them.
* Support on the delivery of key program related activities, coordinating with the Program team to ensure smooth execution and success.
* Provide general program management support to the team as needed.
What we're looking for
* 2+ years experience in a community/events role
* Experience growing online communities, particularly using tools like Slack, Salesforce and Mailchimp
* Handling and managing a budget
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Solid understanding of social media strategy and platforms, especially Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, and TikTok
* A creative mindset, can-do attitude and excitement to help build something
Desirable
* Experience in influencer marketing
* Experience marketing to diverse communities
* Knowledge of the technology industry
About You
* You’re highly organised and self-motivated.
* You are an ambitious leader. You recognise the importance of what we are trying to achieve and see your role in that.
* You’re resourceful. You know how to find things, solve things, answer questions, reach people.
* You are passionate about the cause. You have a demonstrated interest and motivation to support diverse overlooked communities.
* You have a strategic mindset. You work independently and when faced with opportunities, you work logically to achieve impactful outcomes
* You're a positive, solutions-oriented, and entrepreneurial individual with a drive for excellence.
* You can engage remotely and with autonomy.
* You’re a team player and manager, with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
We are a remote-first organisation meeting up in person (our London offices) every 2 weeks.
Colorintech is dedicated to believing that all lives have equal value. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we serve including on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices
Right to work:
Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.
Safeguarding:
Successful applicants will be required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service (\"DBS\") for the position.
Benefits include
* Generous Annual Leave: 25 days paid holiday plus UK bank holidays.
* Flexible Working: Remote-first working environment with flexible hours.
* Professional Development: Annual budget for training, conferences, and career development.
* Pension Scheme: Competitive employer pension contributions.
* Tech Setup: Provided laptop and equipment to support remote work.
* Bi-Weekly Meetups: Opportunity to collaborate in person at our London offices every two weeks (travel costs covered where applicable).
* Impactful Work: Be a key part of a leading non-profit driving real change for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.