Analytical Student Assistant for the Impact Area

Are you looking to kick-start your career? The Novo Nordisk Foundation is looking for an analytical student assistant (part-time) to join the Impact Area.

The Impact Area is responsible for data and analysis in the Foundation. We collect, organise, and analyse data from our grant recipients and from external sources to provide insight about the impact of our grant activities within public research, innovation, healthcare, and social and humanitarian efforts. We are responsible for providing data and data driven solutions that supports the evaluation practices in the Foundation and among applicants.

To build competences and gain knowledge we are active in several external research projects within the areas of science-of-science, economics-of-science and innovation to learn what works and what does not work. This involves, e.g., use of computational skills, statistical methods, and skills within data science.

The Job
You will be working with the entire department and share the responsibilities for a number of key tasks with two other students. On a day-to-day basis, you will work with experienced colleagues on tasks such as:

• Support for Grant Managers and grant recipients on our two reporting platforms, Researchfish and Foundgood

• Process improvements to our interaction with grant recipients and other stakeholders
• Extract, transform and combine data from our data warehouse and other sources, and construct variables for analysis
• Perform descriptive and quantitative analysis and present findings in exciting ways in figures
• Prepare presentations
• Ad hoc tasks

The working hours will be approximately 15-20 hours a week with flexibility in relation to your studies.

Professional Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with some of these qualities:

• And the final part of or recently graduated their bachelor within, e.g., economics, mathematical economics, computational sociology, data science, or the like, that provides you with a background for understanding the behavioural response of agents (individuals, groups, organisations) and the translation to an analytical strategy
• Experience with and interest in social science, public policy, research, text analysis (NLP)
• Experience with coding in SQL, Python or R, preferably but not mandatory
• Experience with visualisation of data
• Super user in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and experienced user of statistical software, e.g. STATA or R
• Proficiency in English and Danish (written and oral)

Personal Qualifications 

We imagine that your fellow students or your current employer would describe you as

• Analytical and detail-oriented, while able to maintain an overview
• Flexible, highly self-motivated and can work independently but not afraid to ask for help/feedback
• Contributing to a positive environment and wants to learn and develop
• Having a collaborative mind-set

Working at the Novo Nordisk Foundation
We offer a committed and professional workplace in which we emphasize ensuring that our colleagues thrive, are challenged and have opportunities to develop their potential. A career at the Novo Nordisk Foundation gives you the opportunity to work: 

• on important projects that benefit society; 
• with key actors within research and development in Denmark;
• and as part of a dedicated team that is passionate about creating value for society.

Application and Information
For further information, please contact Rasmus Lund Jensen, Head of Data and Senior Impact Lead, [email protected].

We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than 30 August 2024. Expected starting date is as soon as possible.

To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, university grade transcript and other relevant documents by clicking the “Apply now” button.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation
The Novo Nordisk Foundation dates back to 1922, and is an independent Danish foundation with corporate interests. Our vision is to contribute significantly to research and development that improves the lives of people and the sustainability of society.

In the period 2018-2022, the Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded DKK 30.6 billion through more than 3,150 grants. Of these, 44% (DKK 13.4 billion) were awarded for physiological, endocrinological, metabolic and other medical research, 5% (DKK 1.5 billion) have been awarded for research hospital activities within diabetes and 51% (DKK 15.6 billion), were awarded for other scientific, humanitarian and social purposes, respectively. The Foundation gets its income from ownership in the Novo Group companies and more than 160 other life science companies.

In the coming years, the Foundation will further broaden its scope and increase its grants for scientific, humanitarian and social purposes. As a consequence, we are a growing organization, which means new job openings and exciting opportunities for employees to be a part of forming the future of the Foundation.

Read more about the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s history, strategy and ownership structure here: Frontpage - Novo Nordisk Fonden.