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 28 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. The SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH (SBI) is looking for a
Student Assistant (f/m/d)
to support the activities of the Operations Management team (36-60h/month).
Key responsibilities:
- Support quality assurance processes in the development of survey tools within an agile software development framework
- Assist in the preparation of training materials and software documentation
- Contribute to the design of user interfaces and features through the creation of mock-ups and prototypes
- Conduct literature research in fields related to SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe)
- Facilitate communication and coordination with stakeholders and partner organizations
- Support comprehensive project documentation to ensure clarity and continuity across teams
Your profile:
- Ongoing Bachelor or Master Studies in Social Science, Economics or Business Informatics, Computer Science at an FH or University
- Experience or interest in Figma/ learning about Software Design
- Command of the English language
- Self-organized and proactive working style
- Experience in statistical programming with Stata, R or Python is a plus
- MS Office skills
Our offer for you:
- A friendly, encouraging, and international work environment
- The opportunity to work with an experienced congenial interdisciplinary team
- Insight into Operations, data analysis und IT development for a large European research project in an excellent research environment
- Work on one of Europe’s largest interdisciplinary studies collecting social research data
- Payment in accordance with TV-Stud III
- Possible support for writing thesis based on SHARE data
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 SHARE-Ops-2025 to Sylvia Becker by e-mail to applications@share-berlin.eu no later than 07.08.2025. Please name your files starting with your last name.
