- EF-CA-18-01 Survey Data Support Officer

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Contract Agent - FG IV, Grade 13, 14 or 16
Dublin, Ireland

Based in the Research area and working across all three Research units, the Survey Data Support Officer will support the processing of three major EU surveys: European Company Survey, European Working Conditions Survey, European Quality of Life Survey. The duties of the post include:

  • Supporting the data management process during fieldwork, preparatory work for data analysis, data extraction and compilation of data from the surveys on request (from internal or external stakeholders);
  • Processing and organising the data collected throughout the process of survey implementation:
  • numerical data collected as part of the survey interview;
  • numerical data recorded throughout the data collection process;
  • non-numerical metadata collected or compiled during the preparation and implementation of cross-national surveys (e.g. questionnaire items in different languages, fieldwork instructions, documenting potentially influential national and international events taking place during fieldwork etc);
    • Supporting the preparatory work for the survey data analysis (data cleaning);
    • Assisting the survey teams with the analysis and visualisation of data;
    • Other tasks, appropriate to the role.
Bachelor level degree or higher in a relevant field, e.g. data science, statistics, information management, quantitatively-oriented social science.
  • Experience with quality control, data checking, cleaning of large scale datasets, organising and analysing databases;
  • Experience in data extraction and generating tables;
  • Proven high level of computer literacy (not limited to MS Office), including data analytical tools (such as SPSS, Stata, or R).
  • Good understanding of survey methodologies;
  • Knowledge of data visualisation;
  • Familiarity with procedures to ensure confidentiality of data.

Full details of requirements can be found in the vacancy notice on Eurofound's website:

This opportunity is closed to applications.