Research data assistant
| Highest | $4,600 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 0–1 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 3 to 4 years of undergraduate study |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $4,600max |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $4,050 |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $4,000 |
| DenmarkIELTS 6.5 · DKK 45–135k | $3,700 |
| GermanyIELTS 6.5 · €0–3k | $3,500 |
| FinlandIELTS 6.0–6.5 · €6–18k | $3,500 |
What does the day look like?
Between 70 and 80 percent of your daily work is dedicated to data hygiene: cleaning raw files, checking validation errors, reconciling missing values, and maintaining codebooks. You ingest, parse, and merge raw data files in CSV, TSV, XLSX, or JSON formats from survey teams, lab notebooks, or hospital records, flagging duplicate IDs and impossible entries such as human body temperatures recorded as 370 degrees Celsius. Routine tools include Microsoft Excel, RStudio with tidyverse, dplyr, and ggplot2, Python with pandas and NumPy, REDCap, OpenClinica, Qualtrics, Stata, PostgreSQL, and Git.
Writing and refactoring small utility scripts in R or Python to automate transformations accounts for 10 to 15 percent of your day, while administrative communication with nurses and field staff about conflicting entries takes 5 to 10 percent. Basic statistical modeling and chart building take merely 0 to 5 percent. Standard working hours are 37.5 to 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with no shift work, night work, or on-call duties, though deadlines like clinical database locks occasionally require overtime.
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