Volunteer roles

Join our brilliant volunteer community and use your data skills to make the world a better place!

Volunteers can get involved in different ways depending on their experience, skills, and availability. You might join a one-off event, a several-month project, or even a committee.

To hear about opportunities as they happen, sign up to our volunteer newsletter.

“Working with totally new people and seeing how they approach new problems is fascinating.”

Lydia Monnington | Analytics Manager, GHGSat | DataKind UK Committee member
Read Lydia’s Volunteering Story

Data projects

DataKind UK’s staff and committees scope the most impactful projects we can find, and match them with the best volunteers for the job. These projects support the third sector - charities, voluntary organisations, community interest companies, and social enterprises - any organisation whose mission is to change the world for the better.

If you’re a data professional who loves cleaning and joining messy data sets, digging into the relationships of a regression, or building a trial dashboard to explore a tough social issue, you’ll fit right in here. If you’ve also got the know-how to lead a team and keep projects on track, we’re definitely looking for you!

To apply for project opportunities as they happen check this page regularly, or sign up to our newsletter and get them direct to your inbox.

Long-term roles

The Community Committee, Ethics Advisors, and Scoping & Impact Committee keep things running behind the scenes. Each committee is made up of a team of about eight volunteers, who provide roughly six hours of their time per month, for one year. We recruit for new committee members towards the end of each year.

Our Board of Trustees supports our governance. Board members serve for three-year terms, attend quarterly meetings, and are welcome to join other community activities as well.

“DataKind UK is a special place to work. We have a fantastic team with a deeply inclusive culture that gives rise to creative, reflective, and effective delivery of our programmes.”

Tariq Khokhar | Head of Data for Science and Health, Wellcome Trust | Chair, DataKind UK Board of Trustees

More questions?

Our FAQ has you covered!

  • 'Data for good' is what happens when DataKind UK connects skilled volunteers like you to the third sector, bringing the power of data science where it's needed most.

    The third sector includes charities, public and civic services, Community Interest Companies, social enterprises - any organisation whose mission is to change the world for the better!

    Despite their essential work, these organisations struggle with low resources, a huge skills gap, and a lack of development and investment when it comes to data use. You help us to close these gaps.

  • Our volunteering opportunities are very popular, but your team is welcome to volunteer individually by signing up to our mailing list to hear about opportunities as they happen. You can also support us as an organisation.

  • Most of our roles can be done remotely, but some also have in-person events.

    If you’re looking for other online opportunities, DataKind UK is one of six global DataKind chapters. DataKind chapters in Bengaluru, Singapore, Washington DC, and San Francisco offer a mixture of other remote volunteering. Find your local chapter!

  • As a small charity, we aren’t set up to provide work experience or student placements. If you’re looking for placements, ways to develop your skills, or other volunteering opportunities, take a look at our other suggestions.

  • We’re a very small charity team, so don’t recruit new staff very often. But, as more and more third sector organisations see the value of data, the chance to work in ‘data for good’ roles grows! This excellent jobs board is maintained weekly by The Data Collective, capturing the best opportunities in the third sector across the UK.

  • Definitely! Check out our map of data for good communities around the world.