Help Close By

Data Analysts

Paused
Remote
0-5 hours / month
1-3 hours / week

Volunteer from home with Help Close By and use your lunch hour or spare evening to tackle poverty. We’re looking for data analysts to work with us as we take our next step to develop a digital tool to reduce the impacts of poverty nationally.

What will you be doing?

Help Close By is a charity which uses digital technology to give people access to poverty relief - from food support to advice services. Our app has been connecting people in need with poverty relief organisations in Birmingham since 2020, and our local volunteers have been operating our own food delivery service since 2022. Our new version of the app will include a directory of poverty relief organisations across the UK, data on how many people are accessing them, and how effective the organisations are in supporting service users. This data will come together to create a live poverty map of the UK which, as well as connecting people to the services they need efficiently, we hope will inform funding and policy in relation to poverty in the future. Our volunteer data analysts will be tasked with helping us to build this directory and helping us to improve the reporting for statistics to ensure the efficacy of our real-time poverty map. Opportunities range from bitesize tasks to CV boosting projects to fit in with your time and goals. Our current focus is our directory project.

What are we looking for?

We are eager to hear from anyone with an interest in volunteering with a poverty relief charity, who has experience of data analysis. 

What difference will you make?

Volunteers will have a hand in creating a live poverty map which will connect people with the help they need, and have the potential to inform funding and policy to tackle poverty on a national scale.


 

Opportunity reference number: 900244