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The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields. With around 10,000 employees and 12 professional apprenticeship streams, the University provides an inspiring working environment focused on cutting-edge research and top-class education.

Tasks

  • Aligning the established social production method with European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), adapting its application and reporting while preserving the underlying methodology.
  • Mapping social production categories to available SAKE data, assessing coverage, and conducting a gap analysis of categories not yet captured.
  • Compiling and analysing relevant Swiss data sources to produce the pilot account's first estimates.
  • Building the account into a working statistical product, documented and reproducible for regular updates by Switzerland and/or other nations.
  • Co-authoring research and policy outputs, including a joint report on social production in Switzerland.
  • Preparing a methodological report with options to extend category coverage, including recommendations for Switzerland and a generalisable approach for other national statistical offices.
  • Applying social production measures to examine productive contribution across the lifecourse, focusing on contributions of older people and implications for healthy longevity and demographic dependency measures.
  • Working in person within the National Accounts Division and liaising across FSO units to resolve questions of definition, derivation, and method.
  • Maintaining reproducible workflows and documentation consistent with official statistics standards.
  • Designing and teaching two seminars per year (one per semester) at UZH Department of Psychology on interdisciplinary topics bridging economics and aging research.

Requirements

  • A degree in economics at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
  • Strong quantitative analytical skills and demonstrated ability to analyse and interpret economic, survey or official statistical data.
  • A good understanding of macroeconomic measurement and national accounting concepts, with the ability to interpret and apply statistical and accounting conventions.
  • An interest in economic and social measurement, including the measurement of non-market production and/or social metrics.
  • A translational research orientation, comfortable working across an academic research team and a national statistical office and communicating with policy audiences.
  • Strong written communication skills and the ability to produce clear, rigorous analytical and technical reports.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Familiarity with the System of National Accounts (SNA) and/or European System of Accounts (ESA), including experience with or knowledge of satellite accounting (desirable).
  • An interest in the application of economic and social measurement to healthy longevity, demographic change, the care economy, fiscal sustainability, and the intersection of market and non-market production (desirable).
  • Experience with time-use surveys or unpaid-work modules in labour force surveys (desirable).
  • Experience working with survey microdata or other official statistical data (desirable).
  • Experience with time-series, price or index methods, including constant-price adjustment (desirable).
  • Experience working in or with a statistical office or national accounts setting (desirable).
  • Proficiency in statistical software such as R, Stata, Python or equivalent (desirable).
  • A record of peer-reviewed publication and technical reporting (desirable).
  • Working proficiency in German or French (desirable).

Benefits

  • The opportunity to build the first social production satellite account established within a national statistical office, an innovation in national accounting with international reach.
  • A role embedded in official statistics while contributing to frontier research, with training in the social production accounting method from the University of Sydney's Mental Wealth Initiative.
  • Support through co-supervision across three partners and connection to an international research and policy network spanning ageing, health, and economic measurement.
  • Employment on University of Zurich terms, with salary set according to UZH and Canton of Zurich guidelines for postdoctoral researchers.
  • A clearly defined three-year horizon to deliver a programme of work with direct policy relevance.
  • Flexible working models (such as part-time positions, mobile working, job-sharing).
  • Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH.
  • Wide range of continuing education courses of UZH and the Canton of Zurich.
  • Language Center run jointly with ETH Zurich.
  • Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias.
  • Lunch-Check-card with UZH contribution.
  • Special conditions on the Academic Sports Association ASVZ.
  • Free seasonal flu vaccinations.
  • Rest and relaxation at the quiet room in the university tower.
  • Discounts for carsharing, vehicle rental, parking space.
  • Discounts on hardware, software, mobile phone subscriptions.
  • Most UZH staff are employed according to public law.
  • Support for people from outside Switzerland.
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Über uns
Die Universität Zürich ist eine öffentliche Universität des Kantons Zürich und bietet Lehre, Forschung und Weiterbildung in einem breiten Spektrum wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen an. Sie umfasst sieben Fakultäten und verbindet akademische Ausbildung mit Grundlagenforschung, angewandter Forschung, Nachwuchsförderung und Wissenstransfer. Die UZH arbeitet mit nationalen und internationalen Hochschulen, Forschungsinstitutionen, Spitälern, Unternehmen und öffentlichen Stellen zusammen und leistet Beiträge in Bereichen wie Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Wirtschaft, Recht, Gesellschaft, Geisteswissenschaften und Theologie.
Das Team

The position is employed and funded by the University of Zurich Healthy Longevity Centre. Working time is divided between the FSO National Accounts Division in Neuchâtel and the UZH Centre for Healthy Longevity, with research supervision shared between partners under a light joint-oversight arrangement. Teaching activities are delivered on site at UZH. A clear separation is maintained between FSO-hosted research and official statistics, and no output carries the FSO's name without its approval.

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