224 - Developing a Volunteer Database
Project summary:
A community hub charity which focuses to match individuals and groups with volunteering opportunities in their local community are in need of a volunteer.
The charity is seeking a statistical volunteer to make better use of the data collected through its existing volunteer database using Salesforce. The aim is to help the charity build a stronger evidence base to demonstrate the value of volunteering and the difference its work makes in local communities. The volunteer will help review the;
- existing data,
- data-capture processes,
- identify opportunities to improve how information is collected, analysed and reported.
This could include developing meaningful measures of volunteer engagement and impact, improving data quality, identifying useful trends and patterns, and exploring effective ways to present findings to different audiences, including grant funders, local authorities, business sponsors and the general public.
Any skills/qualifications that are required:
Essential
- Experience of working with CRM software and databases, particularly Salesforce
- Ability to identify meaningful trends, patterns and insights within data
- Ability to assess data quality and identify opportunities to improve data collection
- Ability to identify appropriate measures and analysis to demonstrate organisational impact and outcomes
- Experience of producing clear, engaging and bespoke reports for different audiences
Desirable
- Ability to develop reporting dashboards
- Ability to create visually appealing graphics and data visualisations to communicate findings to different audiences
- Experience of presenting data and evidence to funders, local authorities or other
Estimated time commitment: Estimated 25-30 hours overall.
Location: Remote working with charity based in East Sussex, BST time zone.
225 – Volunteer network’s impact report
Project summary:
A charity leading a crisis-intervention pilot that provides flexible financial support is seeking a volunteer. The volunteer will review their data and reports to determine if there are any gaps in the coverage, strengths/weaknesses of existing processes and to provide recommendations on their findings. To strengthen their proposal for continued funding, they would like the statistician to assist in demonstrating the impact of the services. If supported by the data, the charity would be interested in determining whether there is scope to further evidence how the program has reduced the need for beneficiaries to utilise food banks and crisis support provision.
Any skills/qualifications that are required:
Essential
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Data management
Estimated time commitment: Analysis needs to be completed by end of year 2026 to prepare for a proposal to continue funding past March 2027.
Location: Remote working with charity based in Scotland, BST time zone.
226 - Supporting Seafarers
Project summary:
A network of charities that co-ordinates the provision of welfare support to the UK maritime industry is looking for a volunteer to help them learn as much as possible from their existing data and to advise them about how better to collect and use data. Specifically, they look for advice about:
- How to present a proposal to the UK Census supporting a case for inclusion of data upon seafarers in Census 2031
- An assessment of the current data sets, with advice about how best to refine data collection in support of their organisational objectives.
- An assessment of how the refined data sets could be analysed in future.
Overall, this is a project that will require more advice about how data might be used and collected and practical synthesis of useable data, rather than high level analysis.
Any skills/qualifications that are required:
Essential
- Familiarity with usual data storage formats.
- Data collection.
Desirable
Estimated time commitment: Estimated 30-40 hours overall.
Location: Remote working with charity based in London, BST time zone.