Dear Polmeth colleagues,
Please find below a job posting for a full-time Research Associate in Germany, to work on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) project. And please also forward the posting on to others that might be interested.
Thanks, and best wishes,
-Dave
David Howell
Director of Studies, CSES
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GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (www.gesis.org) funded by the Federal Government and the Länder (federal states), member of the Leibniz Society
offers the following position:
Research associate, social science, 1.0 FTE (39 hours per week), salary according to TV-L 13 (36.000−53.000 € gross income, depending on job experience), initially for a period of 3 years from January 1, 2009 until December 31, 2011
DUTIES:
Duties include providing research, data analysis, and advanced data management support for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES; www.cses.org), a cross-national effort involving election studies in more than fifty countries; collaborating with local and international researchers on analyses that result in presentations and publications in professional settings, both nationally and internationally; processing and analyzing datasets from election studies worldwide; enforcing consistency, conducting quality control, validation of data against publicly available sources, and testing known analytical models on resulting datasets; cooperating with study staff and researchers in order to make appropriate corrections of the data; coding macro-level and district-level electoral data for countries depositing data, from researcher reports and public resources; merging individual election studies and other data into a single product for free, public distribution via the CSES website; developing and maintaining documentation for the website and released datasets; analyzing and interpreting publicly released data to produce tables of results and other scientific documents for publication on the project website; maintaining familiarity with, and creating catalogues of, scholarly presentations and publications that make use of CSES data;; assistance in developing and maintaining data and documentation archives, both on paper and electronic; developing systems for an efficient and timely processing of CSES data; consulting the project director, faculty, and staff.
QUALIFICATION:
Excellent master's or diploma degree in political science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, PhD welcome; substantive knowledge of and interest in electoral research; familiarity with and interest in cross-national comparative political science; familiarity with macro-level (parties and systems, electoral institutions, and regime types) and district-level (returns and turnout) electoral data; demonstrated experience in empirical social research and in the application of statistical software for data management and analysis (SPSS, SAS, or STATA); familiarity with modern statistical techniques; team player with excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills; excellent command of the English language.
Applications have to be handed in by January 15, 2009, preferably by e-mail, including copies of degree, credentials, etc.
GESIS president
Prof. Dr. Hans Rattinger
P.O. Box 12 21 55
68072 Mannheim
Germany
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