Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter — Universität Bern

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The UniBE is typically Bern. With us, you can expect an appreciative culture and a healthy working environment.

Requirements

• University degree (master’s degree or higher) in a subject didactics, applied linguistics, linguistics, educational sciences or a related field. Knowledge in the areas of competence measurement, test development and/or empirical educational research is particularly desired.
• Experience in the development of test and examination tasks, ideally in the context of curricular educational comparative studies. Additional experience in teaching aid development, threshold setting or in didactic research is advantageous.
• Ideally, experience in the preparation of performance surveys, especially with regard to didactic issues.
• Experience in scientific project work and in cooperation with different specialist and stakeholder groups.
• Enjoy inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation as well as the combination of research, school practice and education policy.
• A scientific, educational and/or sculptactic network or interest in further developing such a network.
• An independent, structured and responsible way of working as well as strong communication and coordination skills.
• Very good knowledge in one Swiss national language, good knowledge in another Swiss national language and in English.

We offer

• Opportunity to participate in major national and international projects with high educational and social relevance
• Responsible and varied activities
• Research-oriented, interdisciplinary and nationally and internationally networked team
• Modern infrastructure and flexible working hours
• Employment according to cantonal employment conditions

International reputation Application and contact If you are interested, please send your complete application documents (application letter, CV, qualification certificates and employment certificates) until 19.10.2026 in a single file in PDF to Ms. Julia Diarra, Project Administration: [email protected]. With us, you create value. For themselves and society.

Tasks

The aim of the Interfaculty Centre for Educational Research (ICER) is to promote analytical-empirical knowledge in educational research at the interface with educational policy. A central task of ICER is the coordination of large-scale assessments (LSA), including the “monitoring of basic competencies” (www.monitoring-der-grundkompetenzen.ch) and the “Programme of International Student Assessment” (PISA, www.pisa-schweiz.ch).

• They support the program management in the (further) development of the overall design of the monitoring of the basic competencies.
• They develop and further develop didactic principles for monitoring the basic competencies, such as the specialist frameworks, in exchange with other employees, cooperation partners and experts (e.g. from school practice) from the different language regions of Switzerland.
• They independently coordinate specialist groups and sub-projects (e.g. the design of threshold setting procedures or the specification of the description of basic competencies)
• They operate the interface to other specialist groups as well as to program and other sub-project management independently (e.g. in the reviews of the specialist frameworks by experts or in the implementation of the threshold setting procedures).
• They participate in the acquisition, conception and implementation of research projects in educational research.
• They write scientific reports and publications and contribute to the transfer of knowledge between research, school practice and education policy.

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Good research infrastructures and international network Individual Career Support Collaborative environment and ambitious team

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Their gross wage at an employment level of between CHF and francs per year (including 13th monthly wage). The exact pay depends on your experience and skills. In a personal conversation, we clarify all questions about wages and employment conditions together.

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