Posted to IASSIST on: 2011-08-18
Employer: Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Employer URL: http://www.eur.nl/english/
Description
The University Library of Erasmus University Rotterdam has a vacancy at the Erasmus Data Service Centre (EDSC): Statistician EDSC (0,5 fte)
The aim of this position is to support students and staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam to efficiently find, retrieve and process the requested data for education and research and to be the specialist regarding statistics in the Datateam.
The University Library has 85 employees. For more information about the library please visit: www.eur.nl/ub/english .
Job description
The aim of this position is to support students and staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam to efficiently find, retrieve and process the requested data for education and research and to be the specialist regarding statistics in the Datateam.
Requirements
The EDSC is looking for an enthusiastic, customer-oriented, pro-active colleague to help students and staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam to efficiently find, retrieve and process the requested data for education and research. You are a statistician. You are an experienced teacher in statistics and methods and techniques of quantitative research. You have been involved in finding and retrieving data as well as in processing the data. You have proven experience with statistical packages for statistical analysis such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, Matlab, Excel and Eviews. You can demonstrate affinity with financial research. You are customer friendly and your verbal and written communication skills are excellent. You are a team player with a broad interest in scientific research. You are knowledgeable and have proven affinity with recent developments in research methodology, statistics and techniques of data analysis. You are convincing, have an entrepreneurial mentality, are both a generalist and a specialist within at least one discipline. In the case that your knowledge of financial databases such as Thomson ONE Banker, Datastream and WRDS or databases for the social sciences such as OECD iLibrary and ICPSR is insufficient you are willing to learn about these yourself by following courses, workshops and the expertise of your fellow Datateam members.
Core Skills
• Analytic skills • Communication skills • Expertise • Initiative • Customer friendliness
And the general skills for all EUR employees: • Integrity • Professionalism • Cooperation
Activities
• You help students, lecturers and researchers during individual support sessions in finding, retrieving and processing the requested data. • You organize and teach workshops on financial databases for groups of students. Furthermore you help to develop new workshops with regard to content and didactics and make sure these workshops become part of the curriculum of the departments . • You answer questions received by the EDSC helpdesk.
• Within the Datateam you are the specialist regarding statistics, meaning for statistical methods and statistical packages such as Matlab, SAS and SPSS. You teach the other members of the Datateam basic statistical knowledge.
• You participate in user surveys both for EDSC as well as for the University Library.
Your activities fit well within education and research at Erasmus University Rotterdam. A good cooperation between you and the students, lecturers and researchers is therefore essential.
The conditions of Employment are conform to the Collective Labor Agreements for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU). The initial contract is for one year. After proven ability during that year a permanent contract will be considered. Your salary is dependent on your experience and the maximum amount is € 3.755,- gross per month (scale 10 CAO-NU) in the case of a full time job. In accordance with the CAO NU a starting scale of a maximum of 2 years can be used. Furthermore, the conditions of employment contain among other aspects a structural end of year payment of 8,3%, sufficient leave, an excellent balance between your work- and private life, good pension facilities, excellent collective insurance opportunities and an arrangement for Internet at home. Further training courses in your field of excellence are fully reimbursed. An assessment may form part of the job application procedure.
The job offer is initially for one year, with the intention to offer a permanent position.
Requirements
The EDSC is looking for an enthusiastic, customer-oriented, pro-active colleague to help students and staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam to efficiently find, retrieve and process the requested data for education and research. You are a statistician. You are an experienced teacher in statistics and methods and techniques of quantitative research. You have been involved in finding and retrieving data as well as in processing the data. You have proven experience with statistical packages for statistical analysis such as SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, Matlab, Excel and Eviews. You can demonstrate affinity with financial research. You are customer friendly and your verbal and written communication skills are excellent. You are a team player with a broad interest in scientific research. You are knowledgeable and have proven affinity with recent developments in research methodology, statistics and techniques of data analysis. You are convincing, have an entrepreneurial mentality, are both a generalist and a specialist within at least one discipline. In the case that your knowledge of financial databases such as Thomson ONE Banker, Datastream and WRDS or databases for the social sciences such as OECD iLibrary and ICPSR is insufficient you are willing to learn about these yourself by following courses, workshops and the expertise of your fellow Datateam members.
Core Skills
• Analytic skills • Communication skills • Expertise • Initiative • Customer friendliness
And the general skills for all EUR employees: • Integrity • Professionalism • Cooperation
Archived on: 2011-09-08