Volunteer with us

Roles you can take

• Question setter, write questions and explanations in your subject (university students or teachers).
• Reviewer, check other setters’ papers for accuracy, difficulty balance and syllabus fit.
• Assessor, mark essays and science projects against the published rubric.
• Event-day steward, cover the live window, handle complaints and technical problems.
• Translator, keep the Bangla and English versions saying the same thing.
• Campus ambassador, promote and help with registration at your own school, college or university.
• Content and design, posters, social media, certificate templates.
• Support, answer calls and messages from students and guardians.

The representative role is separate

The roles above all run the competitions. A campus representative does something else: meeting students in person, checking their ID and recording the verification, which every winner needs before a prize is paid. It is tied to one named campus, runs for a semester, and carries its own strict rules, which is why it is kept separate and applied for separately.

What you get

• A verifiable certificate, each carries its own ID that anyone can check on the site.
• A reference letter describing what you actually did (after three months or three events).
• An honorarium for setting and marking work, details below.
• Mobile data and travel costs reimbursed, whether or not the role carries an honorarium.
• Credit under your own name on the site, published only if you want it.
• Training and real practice in writing questions, marking to a rubric and running an event.
• First call on paid work, lead and coordinator roles go to volunteers first.

Honorarium and payment

The budget is small, so work that is time-consuming and skill-dependent is paid per task; the remaining roles are unpaid, but out-of-pocket costs are always reimbursed.

• Rates are agreed in writing before you start, per question, per script or per shift.
• Payment lands within seven working days of the work being submitted and accepted.
• Paid to bKash, Nagad or a bank account, never as cash in hand.
• For the payment record we need your name, mobile number and NID or birth-certificate number; these are never published.
• Under-18 volunteers are paid into a guardian’s account, with the guardian’s consent.
• Tax is withheld where the law requires it, and you get proof of the deduction.
• This is not employment, an honorarium is paid per task and creates no job relationship.

Volunteer rules

• Papers are confidential. Never share questions, answers or even a hint about difficulty before a test closes, not with family, not with friends.
• Declare conflicts of interest up front. If a sibling, your own student or a coaching-centre student of yours is entered, you cannot set or mark that event.
• Never ask for or accept money, gifts or personal favours from students.
• Student phone numbers, schools and results may not be used for private purposes or to promote a coaching centre.
• Keep contact on official channels; do not run your own page or group representing ovoy.
• Tell the coordinator at least 24 hours before a shift you cannot cover; repeated no-shows end the role.
• Declare AI use when drafting questions. Verifying every fact and answer stays your job, and copied questions are never accepted.
• Questions and content you produce belong to ovoy, and you are credited by name.
• Breaking these rules ends the role and withdraws the certificate; for a leaked paper that is the only outcome.

Keeping students safe

• No private one-to-one contact with under-18 students, use the group or the official number.
• Never meet a student alone in person.
• Report anything uncomfortable or unsafe to your coordinator straight away.
• Volunteers under 18 need written guardian consent to join.

How to join

• Fill in the application form, name, class or institution, subject, and hours you can give per week.
• Do a short sample task: five questions with explanations for setters, two sample scripts for assessors.
• A fifteen-minute call to settle your role and schedule.
• An orientation session and the handbook, then sign the rules and confidentiality undertaking.
• Shadow a senior volunteer for one event, then run your own.