Would you like to support science and research? Welcome to SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH, a non-profit organisation.

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is an international panel study established in 2004 that collects socio-economic and biomedical life course data from people aged 50 and over (approx.160,000 to date) in almost 30 countries. It provides internationally comparable longitudinal microdata for scientific research and policy advice. As Europe's largest social science panel study and one of the major European research infrastructures in the field of social sciences, SHARE also has the legal form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) since 2011.

The SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH (SBI) is the seat of the central coordination of SHARE and related scientific research. The SBI was founded in 2022 by the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA).

We are now seeking a motivated individual to join our team in an international and academically stimulating environment. We are offering an interesting and varied role with the opportunity to make a significant impact.

Student Assistant (f/m/d)

to support the activities of the Database Management Team (36 - 60 hours per month)

Key responsibilities:

• Actively support the SHARE Database Management Team.
• Preparing and checking SHARE data using Stata.
• Checking and Editing Excel files.
• Documenting data and national characteristics.
• Communicating with SHARE country teams in English.
• Support research projects.

Your profile:

• Ongoing Bachelor or Master Studies in Survey Methodology, Social Science, Epidemiology, Economics or Business Informatics, Computer Science or a related field at a University, University of Applied Sciences, or comparable institution.
• Long-term interest in complex data and empirical research.
• Basic knowledge of common statistical software (preferably Stata, alternatively R, SAS, SPSS) or interest in learning Stata.
• Basic knowledge of statistical methods.
• Independent, reliable and very precise way of working, as well as a high affinity for data.
• Good knowledge of MS Office skills, especially Word and Excel.
• Good written and spoken English skills, other languages are an advantage.

Our offer for you:

• Insight into a large-scale international survey infrastructure.
• Expand and deepen your knowledge of statistical software Stata.
• Work in a friendly and open-minded team.
• Involvement in data analysis projects focused on infrastructural purposes and survey-methodological research questions.
• The opportunity to work with an experienced, interdisciplinary team, focused on fostering a constructive research environment.
• We support the writing of master's theses using SHARE data and provide dedicated supervision.
• Salary according to TV-Stud III.

SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH attaches great importance to diversity. We look forward to every qualified application regardless of age, health and physical impairment, gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology or sexual orientation. Occupational equality of the sexes is guaranteed.

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your application including a cover letter with motivation for the position, informative CV, and references, in one single pdf document stating your earliest starting date quoting the reference number DBM-01-2025 to Sylvia Becker by e-mail to applications@share-berlin.eu no later than 31.03.2025.