Home-Start Greenwich supports families with children aged 0–5 through trained volunteers who provide practical and emotional help at home and via activities at Children’s Centres. Support includes parenting guidance, early-learning activities, and signposting to mental-health, safeguarding and essential-items (food and clothing) services.
We are seeking student volunteers to turn two years of organisational data into evidence and a report for future grant applications. You’ll work with datasets (collected from individual volunteers) covering family start dates, child age and locality; service touchpoints (home-visits versus Children’s Centres); volunteer type, hours, tenure, education/employment; reasons for leaving; and available outcome notes. Tasks include cleaning and structuring data, defining indicators for families, volunteers and the charity, running correlation/impact analyses. You will produce an impact report and a dashboard. This flexible six-month hybrid role offers valuable hands-on experience in social-impact research, ethical data practice, and communicating insights to non-technical audiences.
- Build the data-analysis pipeline: Clean and structure two years of data; design an analysis to show how volunteers drive outcomes (clear codebook, indicators, simple correlations/regressions).
- Gather missing insights: Create tools (very short surveys/structured interviews) to capture volunteers’ motivation and future career pathways, and “family benefit” snapshots showing the real-life impact of services on local residents.
- Specify exact parameters for correlation/impact analysis:
Inputs (A): volunteer type/role, hours, tenure, setting (home-visit vs Children’s Centre).
Outcomes (B): for volunteers—language proficiency, employment/immigration changes, wellbeing, parenting skills; for families/organisation—engagement, early-learning milestones, safeguarding/signposting completion, service efficiency/grant support.