Research Assistant – EUROFOUND

EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS (EUROFOUND)

Notice of Open Selection Procedure: REFERENCE: EF-CA-15-02

Eurofound, based in Dublin, Ireland is an autonomous body established by a Council Regulation. Eurofound is organising an open selection and recruitment procedure to form reserve lists from which to fill vacancies for:

Research Assistant

Contract Agent: Function Group III

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Head of the Employment and Change (EMPC) research unit, the responsibilities of the Research Assistant will include:

• Liaising with individual national correspondents by email and creation and submission of fact sheets.
• Contribution to the cross-checking of the updating and validation exercise of the European Restructuring Monitor qualitative databases (restructuring support instruments, legal and case study databases), including liaison with the individuals responsible in the national centres regarding content queries, deadline reminders etc.
• Quality control activities on restructuring cases from specified countries and systematic post quality checks of fact sheets edited by other in-house editors on a quarterly basis.
• Monitoring of the use of M-Brain / Esmerk feeds by ERM correspondents and level of reporting. Liaising with relevant managers if major issues are detected.
• Workflow management of the unit’s interactions with the Network of European Correspondents.
• Contribution to the ERM quarterly and the ERM annual report, the preparation of country information sheets based on ERM data from both the qualitative and events databases as required.
• Provision of research assistance in other EMPC strategic research projects. This may include preparation of literature reviews and desk research-based case studies.
• Maintaining CRM lists in co-operation with the Information & Communication unit and assistance in other dissemination tasks including identifying conferences or journals for presentations / research contributions.
• Other duties as required.

Place of employment: Dublin, Ireland.

In order to be considered, applications must be received before 23h59 (GMT) on 20 May 2015.

Read more and apply here.