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

  220 - Dance company performance measurement and data strategy project 

  Project summary: 
  A leading dance charity that works with disabled and non-disabled artists to remove systemic barriers is in need of a volunteer. The organisation is moving from Excel to a cloud hosted data architecture, using GoodCRM to manage their organisation’s data.  

  The charity needs the volunteer to help turn its strategic goals into a practical impact measurement framework, including clear outcomes, indicators, KPIs, data requirements and reporting outputs to evidence and communicate its impact. They require advice on a clear, efficient data collection strategy, including what data to collect, how often to collect it, and how to improve the quality and usefulness of existing processes. The charity would also like advice on best approaches for monitoring and reporting organisational performance using data captured within GoodCRM as well as best practices on data quality and governance that they could look to adopt. 

  Any skills/qualifications that are required: 
  Desirable:  Familiarity with GoodCRM would be a plus but not a requirement 
  Estimated time commitment: Short project, ideal finish date in autumn 2026. 
  Location: Remote working with charity based in London, BST time zone. Volunteer is welcome to visit the organisation’s office in Peckham. 

  221 - Assessing the impact of reading support 

  Project summary: 
  A children’s literacy charity that recruits volunteers to read with children under the age of 12 is in need of a volunteer. The charity would like support to strengthen their ability to measure and evidence the impact of their literacy-focused programme. 

  The project is expected to fall into four broad stages: 

  1. Review and analyse existing datasets held by the charity, including quantitative information about service users and qualitative questionnaire data, which is reflective and likely to be unstructured.  

  2. Undertake a literature review to understand the relationship between “reading for pleasure” and attainment-based literacy outcomes to design measures of reading for pleasure and potentially develop a theory of change that sets out the key inputs, activities and outcomes through which the intervention may have an impact. 

  3. Design a new survey approach anchored in the measures identified through the theory of change. The volunteer will work with the charity to ensure the survey meets the project’s analytical needs while encouraging high participant completion and compliance, including through clear, accessible and non-judgemental questions. 

  4. Potentially interpret data from the surveys. This is expected to take place at least 12 months after the new survey has been implemented. 

  Any skills/qualifications that are required: 
  Desirable: Policy evaluation experience.   
  Estimated time commitment:  40 – 60 hours. Project might be divided into multiple phases, particularly for stage 4 analysis which is expected to be 12 months after the initial review and design work is completed. 
  Location: Remote working with charity based in London, BST time zone. 

  222 – Intervention and Impact Evaluation 

  Project summary:  
  An organisation that supports people affected by substance use through counselling, wellbeing support and training is in need of statistical and data expertise.  

  The charity holds information on the backgrounds, wellbeing and outcomes for clients they support along with data on a range of different interventions which they work on with local authorities. Their data is stored in a Salesforce CRM which the charity is experienced in using and have developers who can provide bespoke dashboards, charts and other data summaries and outputs.  

  The volunteer would be required to analyse the charity’s available data to assess the effectiveness of different interventions, with the objective of identifying whether this effectiveness varies for different demographics and groups of clients.  

  The volunteer will also need to provide information on the impact of the interventions, with the aim of demonstrating to funders the value of the charity’s work and providing evidence for future grant requests.  

  The charity would like the volunteer to work closely with the charity’s staff, to create analyses which not only satisfy the charity’s immediate requirements but also enable their staff to produce similar analyses in the future, using the Salesforce CRM and/or Microsoft Excel.  

  Any skills/qualifications that are required: 
  Essential:  Experience with using Microsoft Excel for analyses is required, and experience of using Salesforce or other CRMs would be beneficial (but not essential).  
  Desirable: Experience of impact evaluation and analysis of the effect of interventions on individuals would be beneficial.  
  Estimated time commitment:  Unknown, but the scope of the work is quite wide so this may be a substantial piece of work.  
  Location: Remote working with charity based in Scotland, Kirkcaldy, BST time zone.