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About the Role

DEGIS is seeking a Policy & Research Coordinator to establish and lead the DEGIS Policy Lab. This role involves designing surveys, analyzing quantitative data, and producing clear policy insights and written content. You will be responsible for setting up reproducible research standards, analytical workflows, and toolchains to generate credible and defensible findings on international education, migration, and labor market integration. You will work closely with the Managing Director, providing analytical support for policy positioning and representation.

Responsibilities

Develop research questions and design surveys involving international students, alumni, universities, and employers.
Build questionnaires, assess sampling and data quality, and identify potential bias and methodological limitations.
Clean, analyze, and visualize quantitative data reproducibly in a scripted environment (R, Python, or Stata).
Apply descriptive statistics, significance testing, and basic regression logic, distinguishing correlation from causality.
Maintain immutable raw data and ensure all results are from re-runnable scripts, documenting sources, assumptions, and limitations for independent reproduction.
Systematically screen studies, policy papers, and reports from various institutions.
Assess evidence for methodological quality, relevance, and transferability, identifying gaps or contradictions.
Connect external evidence with internal data and community experience to derive implications for Germany.
Write first and near-final drafts of policy papers, briefs, insight pieces, executive summaries, and briefings.
Develop evidence-based LinkedIn drafts with clear messages and accurate claims.
Present findings to universities, International Offices, project partners, workshops, and professional audiences.
Prepare talking points, briefing notes, charts, and presentations for senior meetings and public positioning.
Collaborate with the Community Lead to translate lived experience into research questions and reality-check interpretations.
Establish reproducible-research standards and analytical toolchains for the Policy Lab.
Set up a structured and searchable knowledge base and shape the research agenda and quality standards.
Utilize Artificial Intelligence as an accelerator for research tasks while ensuring traceability and verification of AI-generated content.
Design repeatable AI-supported workflows that maintain traceability of sources, prompts, decisions, and outputs.
Verify all AI-generated claims, citations, calculations, and code results against sources and reproducible tests.
Identify and mitigate AI hallucinations, false precision, bias, and unsupported conclusions, protecting confidential data.

Requirements

Master’s degree in public policy, economics, empirical social sciences, political science, sociology, education research, or a related field.
Practical experience designing and running surveys, including questionnaire design, sampling considerations, and data-quality assessment.
Around 2–3 years of relevant experience in a research institute, think tank, foundation, consultancy, university, NGO, public-sector, or policy environment.
Practical command of a scripted analysis environment (R, Python, or Stata).
Sound understanding of samples, data quality, bias, uncertainty, statistical significance, correlation, causality, and basic regression logic.
Excellent structured writing skills to transform complex evidence into concise, accurate, and persuasive policy content.
Confidence presenting findings to professional audiences and the judgment to communicate uncertainty honestly.
Very strong German (C1 or equivalent) and fluent English, written and spoken.
A structured, independent working style and a reproducibility mindset.
Genuine interest in international education, migration, integration, and labour markets.
Based in Berlin or open to relocating.

Skills

Survey design
Quantitative data analysis
R
Python
Stata
Statistical significance testing
Regression logic
Correlation vs. Causality
Reproducible research
Policy analysis
Writing (policy papers, briefs, etc.)
Presentation skills
AI-assisted research
Data visualization
Git
Quarto
R Markdown

Location

Berlin
Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

2-3 years

Education Level

Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

€48,000–€50,000

Benefits

Opportunity to build a new Policy Lab from the ground up with ownership.
Direct collaboration and regular analytical sparring with the Managing Director.
Hybrid work setup with flexibility.
Access to office in Berlin Mitte.
Monthly team events.
Close-knit, international team culture.
Home-office equipment.
Work laptop.
Work phone.
Learning budget for courses and books.
Steep learning curve with room to grow.

About the Company

DEGIS is the home for international talent in Germany.
We connect a nationwide community of international students and professionals with a Policy Lab that translates their lived experience into evidence-based recommendations for universities, employers, and policymakers.
Our work spans local City Chapters in more than 40 German cities, mentoring and scholarship programmes, as well as roundtables, discussion papers, and studies that are heard in Berlin and Brussels.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to building an inclusive team. What matters to us is what you bring to the table – your skills, mindset, and potential – regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.
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