Find a volunteering opportunity

The RSS is proud to be a member-driven society and a lot of the work and products we are able to offer our membership and wider community would not be possible without the many volunteers we have amongst our membership. To see how you could volunteer for the Society and have an opportunity to give back to the community, as well as boosting your continuing professional development (CPD), see our list of roles below.

Do also check the other volunteering pages listed in the left-hand menu, too.

• University and Course Accreditation Assessors
  Description:  This is a paid opportunity to review and assess applications submitted for RSS course accreditation, such as full degree programmes in statistics and data science, as well as individual modules and courses, such as RSS training courses. 
   
  Further information on the accreditation scheme

   

  Requirements: This role is open to all Fellows.
  
  Time Commitment: Applications can take between 0.5 days and 2 days to complete, with all assessments reviewed remotely and online.  
    
  How to register: Please email the Professional Affairs Committee to express your interest in this role. In your email please state why you are interested in this role and why you would be suitable.

   

   
• Statisticians for Society
   

  217 - Development of an evidence base to support funding applications for the rebuilding of a village community hall.  

  Estimated time commitment: 30-40 hours initially.  The scope of the project is wide and could be extended if the selected volunteer has capacity and wishes to continue engagement.

  A charity with planning permission for a replacement village hall seeks support to build a robust evidence base for fundraising, business planning and stakeholder engagement. The new facility will combine community space with clinical consultation rooms, supporting wider health, wellbeing and neighbourhood health objectives. A volunteer is needed to analyse publicly available data on the hall’s catchment population, demographics, health and wellbeing needs, rural accessibility, transport barriers, community infrastructure and demand for services. The outputs should be clear, engaging and visually accessible, helping the charity communicate community need and strengthen funding applications and discussions with NHS and local authority stakeholders. 

  Any skills/qualifications that are required: 
  Essential skills: 

  • Experience using publicly available datasets to answer research questions.
  • ​Experience analysing and summarising large datasets using robust statistical methods. 

  Desired: 

  • GIS mapping skills. 
  • Dashboard development skills. 
  • Ability to create clear, engaging visualisations of complex data to aid discussions with funders and stakeholders. 
  • Experience working with public health, population health, local authority or NHS datasets. 
  • Potentially recruiting for two volunteers, to have expertise across public health and population needs analysis and dashboard and visualisation development. 

  Location: Remote working with charity based in the UK, BST time zone. 
   

  219 - Girls’ Football Impact Assessment

  Estimated time commitment: ~ 40 hours. 

  An organisation delivering football programmes for girls and young women in the UK and overseas seeks support to make better use of its impact data. A volunteer is needed to review how activity, feedback and survey data is structured and managed, identify improvements, and advise how it can better support strategy, fundraising and impact reporting. Most data is held in a central database, though there are inconsistencies across programmes and countries and some reporting limitations. The charity would like progress before its 2025–26 impact report is produced in Q4 2026. s. 

  Any skills/qualifications that are required: 

  Desired: Spanish language would be useful but not essential.
  Location: Remote working with charity based in the UK, BST time zone.