Working Student position at the Chair of Health Economics, Policy, and Management (m/w/d)
Your tasks
As a working student, you will:
- Have the opportunity to contribute to a research project with potential real-world impact
- Support experienced researchers in data cleaning and preparation, descriptive statistics, and data analysis using a large dataset from a hospital
- Contribute to project dissemination (data visualization)
- Show initiative and drive your tasks with high motivation
- Optional: Write a Bachelor/Master Thesis in the field of health economics or management science/ operations research
What you will learn:
- How patients “flow” through the different parts of a hospital
- How clinical data is structured
- How to preprocess high-dimensional health data
- About the current state of causal machine learning methods
Your profile
- Master or Bachelor student in a later semester in an economics program or management program with a quantitative focus
- Solid quantitative skills including working knowledge of the programming language R (additionally python, stata, matlab would be a plus) and a motivation to improve your technical skillset
- Experience with Ubuntu (Server) is a plus
- Result-oriented working style with a high degree of initiative, creativity, and team spirit
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken; German is a plus.
Inspirational Work Environment
Executive Education
Network
Family & Career
Equal Opportunities
Fit and Healthy
Inspirational Work Environment
At the HSG, as Europe's leading business university, we operate in an entrepreneurial environment where you will meet highly qualified, ambitious experts - both regionally and internationally. For example, you benefit from a modern IT infrastructure and, in our library via HSGswisscovery, from nationwide access to the wealth of scientific information available.
Executive Education
We support internal and external executive education opportunities. Our internal executive education programme offers you a practical, dedicated and didactically mature transfer of knowledge in the form of seminars, e-learning, coaching and collegial advice. We support task-specific external training and executive education financially as well as with regard to the time required.
Network
We promote our culture of cross-functional collaboration and create space for forging valuable relationships - also with external partners. Regular exchanges and internal events help to strengthen these relationships and make them long-lasting.
Family & Career
We provide our employees with flexible work time models with a variable number of hours per week. As a family-friendly employer, we offer part-time positions, 16 weeks of maternity leave and a subsidised crèche, as well as support with childcare during the vacations.
Equal Opportunities
The University enables equal opportunities for all employees and students. This applies to degree courses and work, as well as academic careers, university management positions and the reconciliation of studies, work and private commitments. We are committed to this with various measures in the areas of teaching, research, administration and the Presidency.
Fit and Healthy
We help you stay fit and healthy. In addition to our diverse range of sports activities at the university, most of which are free of charge, and campaign weeks for corporate health management, we also offer you fruit in the workplace. In our canteen you will find a wide selection of freshly prepared meals - from vegetarian to fish dishes - at discounted prices.
Further information on working at the HSG can be found here.
For job-related questions
Full Professor of Health Economics, Policy and Management
Looking forward to working with you on exciting projects. Feel free to contact me for any questions regarding the application.
PostDoc/Scientific Project Leader
People are the decisive fact for success. We are looking forward to meeting you.
Your place of work
University of St.Gallen
«A place where knowledge is created» - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 9800 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3300 researchers, educators and professional staff.
