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.
  Applicants particularly welcome with a data science background.
  
  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

  228 – Data Advice for Domestic Abuse Charity 

  Project summary:  

  A charity that provides services to people experiencing domestic abuse needs advice on how to make better use of data to manage its activities, to report progress against its strategic objectives, and to assess its longer-term outcomes for individuals. The charity has a lot of qualitative and quantitative data from its CRM, which it has recently replaced. However, this data does not always meet the charity’s needs, and it could be better focused, organised and managed.  

  A volunteer is required to review the current data and processes, and to recommend how they could be developed to best meet the charity’s objectives. This will include advising on how to structure the data collected by the new CRM system. The project should also include a review of publicly available data, and, if appropriate, advising on other options such as surveys.  

  Any skills/qualifications that are required:   
  Essential    

  • Some experience with CRM systems  

  Desirable  

  • Impact/outcome assessment in a similar field would be helpful.   

  
  Estimated time commitment:  Estimated 20-40 hours overall.   

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

  229 – Analysis support for impact evaluation – Family mediation services 

  Project summary:  

  The charity is a federation of 20 independent organisations providing relationship counselling, family mediation and child contact centre services. They are in the process of implementing a standardised data collection from clients. The organisation requires help from a statistician to upskill them using appropriate software for analysing and reporting data internally on a regular basis. This reporting is to help support the quantification and demonstration of organisational impact on client outcomes to funders. 

  The analysis is likely to include: 

  • Combining Microsoft Forms extracts into an analysis-ready dataset in Excel or statistical software. 
  • Comparing client groups and service types using appropriate statistical tests. 
  • Analysing pre- and post-service measures to assess the impact of services. 
  • Handling longitudinal data and potential non-response bias. 

  
  Any skills/qualifications that are required:   

  Essential    

  • Knowledge of SPSS or similar packages for conducting appropriate analysis tasks (as listed above). Ideally to be able to support with SPSS (as this is currently the preferred candidate software), although some support in potentially evaluating other similar software alternatives.  

   Desirable  

  • Preferably to have experience of analysing pre-post survey measures, as well as non-response bias (missing data).  
  • Experience of supporting impact assessment for public policy or charitable activities is desirable.  

  
  Estimated time commitment:  Estimated 30 hours, spread over a few weeks and months.  

  Location: Remote working with charity based on Scotland, BST time zone.