At a glance

Skills

Software and web development

Where

Finsbury Park, N7 7JN

Remote opportunity

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
1-3 hours / week or 3-7 hours / week

Deadline

01 Jul 2025

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Welcome to Reach Volunteering. We are a community and registered charity that connects people, skills and good causes.

To apply for this role, and any other on our platform, you need to be based in the UK, have at least three years of experience using the skills you wish to volunteer in a professional capacity or have lived experience (for trustee roles). Read more about our criteria.

Are you passionate about equal access to educational activities?

Why not join our enthusiastic and talented software team to develop a VR experience that brings science to life?

What will you be doing?

What will you be doing?

Working closely with our current team of two software developers you will have the opportunity to:

Build VR models and design environments
Create interactive elements of the experience including mini-games
Build an API to communicate to a web server and read config files

Note: As we're a small team, you will be able to negotiate which parts of the software experience you want to work with.

What are we looking for?

What are we looking for?

Someone to join our group of friendly volunteers, all passionate about creating a more equitable and diverse future for Science
We use Unity with C#, but would appreciate the support from someone with good C# experience
Ideally someone who can offer 2-4 hours of their time each week though give this is a voluntary position, we are flexible with commitment times

What difference will you make?

By helping to create and develop our VR experience you will be directly contributing to our goals to:

Educate students on the applications of physics using engaging material such as VR
Increase equitable access to supercurricular activities
Show that Physics is exciting and can lead to more careers than just academia

About Candela VR CIC

Causes

Education

Young people

Organisation type:

Social enterprise

Educate students on the applications of physics using engaging material such as VR
Increase equitable access to super-curricular activities

Software developer to help build educational VR experience