Doesn't seem like there are many volunteers. I'd be happy to work as backup if you just want another pair of eyes to watch out for reports. I'm an admin on programming.dev (@UlrikHD@programming.dev) so I already check for reports on a daily basis anyway.

a proactive approach to growing the community, encouraging posts, and all that sort of thing would be great.

On that note, one thing I miss from r/soccer is the live threads so I've gotten around to write a match thread bot for lemmy. I was/is planning to launch it on the 9th (Norway-Austria) if get the approval from the mods to have a have bot running in the community. An example of the live thread format the bot generates

I would like to nominate @Blaze@sopuli.xyz and @kameecoding@lemmy.world

You still looking? I'd like to volunteer.

Don't know if he's interested, but @blaze@sopuli.xyz seems to be active in this community and is a great person overall, so I'd vouch for him as mod for what it's worth. But he may well have too much on his plate as is.