Insight Volunteer - Bucks Culture

Buckinghamshire Council; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Bucks Culture and Buckinghamshire Council are working together to understand more about how people engage with culture and creativity across Bucks. We need help to gather insight into who visits creative and cultural venues in Bucks, why they come and what else they might like to see and do.

Job Salary Volunteering

Contract Type Temporary

Closing Date for Applications 30th April 2025

About us

Bucks Culture is a charity established to nurture and champion arts, heritage and culture across our county. We advocate for and support increased participation in quality cultural activities across Bucks – enabling meaningful experiences that build togetherness, belonging and pride, and we provide an invaluable networking and facilitating function for the Bucks cultural sector that underpins delivery, broadens horizons and increases opportunities.

We are seeking new Insight Volunteers to play a crucial role in collecting insight and helping to gain a greater understanding of who attends cultural venues. This role involves engaging visitors in cultural spaces, explaining the value of their feedback and taking consenting participants through a survey on a tablet – inputting their answers in real time. We want to understand more about who takes part in culture in Bucks, their experiences, motivations and barriers to help us create more opportunities for people to engage in arts and culture across the county. This data will be used to inform programming and policy decisions within cultural venues, as well as at a strategic level.

The role:

• Approach a broad range of audiences and community members within cultural venues to gather feedback via a survey. Surveys are pre-designed and provided on a digital tablet device.
• Gather feedback from audience members aged 16+. People will be attending alone or with others and you’ll need to feel confident approaching everyone.
• Have a friendly and professional manner and the ability to put people at ease
• Maintain Market Research Society (MRS) Code of Conduct including the principles that:

- Research is founded upon the willing co-operation of the public

- Research should be conducted honestly, objectively and without unwelcome intrusion/harm to respondents

- The rights of respondents are paramount.

• Be an ambassador for Bucks Culture.

About you

This volunteer role is ideal for people-centred individuals who enjoy meeting new people and making new friends. No previous experience is necessary as we will provide fully-funded training to equip our volunteers and can cover travel expenses. The training is likely to take place in early May 2025.

Each volunteer will initially be asked to commit to a number of days gathering data in one of 10 cultural organisations within Bucks – these can fit around existing commitments or travel requirements. This will be an annual process and we would like to build a pool of volunteers to draw on in the future.

Other information

We are offering:

• Training in data collection provided by The Audience Agency
• Remuneration for travel expenses
• Support and point of contact at Bucks Culture who will co-ordinate all volunteers
• Introduction/access to a number of cultural venues and opportunities
• All information and equipment that you need to undertake the surveys
• Ongoing relationship with Bucks Culture.