Volunteer role: School Speaker Assistant Coordinator
(Roughly 2 hours per week)
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Education team. Across all of Humanists UK, our dream is of a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail. Our dedicated staff of 30+ and hundreds of volunteers work hard to achieve this aim.
We hope that you’ll join our team as the new Volunteer School Speaker Assistant Coordinator!
Humanists UK has a network of trained school speakers who visit schools on a voluntary basis to raise awareness and understanding of humanism amongst children and young people. As both the network and the demand from schools have grown, we need to increase our capacity to monitor and process requests from teachers. This is done by the Advancing Humanism Administrator (AHA), with the support of Volunteer School Speaker Assistant Coordinators.
We are seeking motivated individuals to become Assistant Coordinators and help support the growth of our School Speaker network.
Take a look at the full role description and person specification (.pdf) or (.docx) to help you decide whether the role is right for you.
Whatever your background, or prior experiences, if you’re passionate about supporting young people to learn about humanism, we’d love to hear from you.
We actively encourage applications from all sections of our community. We particularly welcome applicants from groups currently under-represented among our volunteers; these would include individuals who identify as female, disabled, trans or from the global majority.
You can find our Recruitment and Promotion and Equal Opportunities policies via the Careers Menu or at the foot of our main Opportunities Page.
To volunteer with Humanists UK, we ask that you also register as a Supporter if you are not already. This allows you to receive mailings from the organisation, to further your understanding of the work Humanists UK does, and to inform your own volunteering practice. There is no cost to you for this registration.
You may also wish to consider becoming a Member; more information on membership can be found here. Membership is not a requirement to volunteer with Humanists UK.
- Department
- Education
- Role
- Assistant School Speaker Coordinator
- Locations
- UK-wide
- Employment type
- Volunteer
- Job type
- Volunteer
- Remote Status
- Fully remote
About Humanists UK
We started out in 1896, and since then we’ve always been a growing movement at the forefront of social change. Today we’re trusted by over 120,000 members and supporters and over 70 local and special interest affiliates to promote humanism.
We put humanism into practice through effective campaigning and services, supporting lasting change for happier, more fulfilling lives. Our policies are informed with the support of over 150 of the UK’s most prominent philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers and experts and we seek to advance them with the help of over 100 parliamentarians in membership of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group. We bring like-minded people together to make change happen, and we strive to be their voice in public debate, drawing on contemporary humanist thought and the worldwide humanist tradition.
We’ve been conducting non-religious funerals, weddings, and baby-namings for 120 years. Our highly trained celebrants are the best you’ll find anywhere, and they support individuals to create authentic, bespoke ceremonies that put people and their stories at the heart of every occasion.
We also help vulnerable people easily access like-minded and effective non-religious pastoral support that is specially tailored to work for them. Our trained and accredited non-religious pastoral support volunteers operate across hospitals, prisons, and the armed forces.