Would you like to support science and research? Welcome to SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH, a non profit organisation.
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a panel study established in 2004 that collects socio-economic and biomedical life course data from people aged 50 and over (ap prox.140,000 to date) in almost 30 countries. It provides internationally comparable longitudinal mi crodata for scientific research and policy advice. As Europe’s largest social science panel study and one of the major European research infrastructures in the field of social sciences, SHARE also has the legal form of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) since 2011.
The SHARE BERLIN Institute GmbH (SBI) is the seat of the central coordination of SHARE and re lated scientific research. The SBI was founded in 2022 by the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA). The SBI and SHARE-ERIC work closely to gether on all questions of implementation and scientific advancement of the research infrastructure.
We are now seeking a motivated individual to join our team in an international and academically stimu lating environment. We are offering an interesting and varied role with the opportunity to make a signif icant impact.

• Assist in coordinating the development process of our interview software, working closely with software developers and SHARE’s scientific community. Support the migration to a new soft ware environment, ensuring a smooth transition while maintaining longitudinal comparability and optimal usability.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, develop and evaluate questionnaire content for various modes of data collection, including face-to-face and telephone interviews, as well as online and paper-and-pencil surveys.
• Contribute to the documentation of the entire questionnaire development processes to maintain a record of the process. Contribute to reporting activities related to the questionnaire develop ment and provide input for user support.
• Assist in coordinating the translation process for SHARE’s 39 languages and support the pro duction and distribution of national survey instruments across the 28 participating countries
• Train survey agency representatives in administering questionnaires and related software to ensure consistent and accurate data collection across all modes.
• Explore own research ideas and publish peer-reviewed papers on substantive or methodologi cal topics, contributing to the field’s advancement. Further scientific qualifications through a dis sertation will be supported