Volunteer Coordinator - Careers Hive 2026

Pay: £14.60 per hour increasing to £16.05 for live period (+ holiday pay)
Hours: 21 hours for 9 weeks / 28 hours for 2 weeks / 14 hours for 1 week
Duration: Temporary, fixed-term contract, approx. 12 weeks
Work location: Edinburgh

We are looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to join our Team from mid August to early November 2026

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About the role:

Edinburgh Science runs Careers Hive  each year. This is an exciting immersive careers education event designed to give students in S1-S3 a new way to think about their futures. It highlights the opportunities available to those who study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths), as well as the cross-disciplinary skills and subjects that can support and enhance STEM careers.

We are looking for a confident, and enthusiastic Coordinator to recruit and manage STEM volunteers to participate in Careers Hive. You will enjoy communicating with people at all levels and the administration of co-ordinating events, people, and processes. 

You will already have experience working in a busy customer service or coordination role, with strong organisational skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office software. You will have an excellent telephone manner and enhanced communication and influencing skills to work and communicate professionally with diverse groups and individuals. You will have experience supervising or leading a team in a busy environment. You will be skilled at managing a varied workload whilst balancing competing priorities. Experience working in an arts, festival, educational, scientific or cultural setting is desirable, as is a willingness to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in!

 

How to apply:

Click the link below to visit our dedicated careers portal. Please note that only applications submitted via our careers portal will be considered.

 

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this. 

 

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 19 July 2026 at 11:59PM  

Virtual interviews will be held on: w/c 27 July 2026

 

Temporary contract: this position is fixed term, for a period of approx. 12 weeks from mid August to early November 2026.

 

View the full job description here

 

To find out more about our Careershive event visit 

https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/schools/secondary/careershive/ 

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results

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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.