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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Job offer - **Company:** EURAXESS - **Location:** Köln, Germany - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Data Infrastructure, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Software Coding, Software Version Control, User Accounts - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2799810?language=en ## About the Role * Completed academic university degree (Master's or equivalent) and completed PhD in political science, quantitative social science, spatial data science, or a related discipline * Advanced expertise in longitudinal and spatial data integration, provenance documentation, and reproducible workflows * Proficiency in coding and managing spatial datasets in R, with experience in version control and data curation standards * Track record of contributing to empirical research and generating scientific innovation with data infrastructure * Excellent English language skills, PhD or equivalent ## Description GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association. Starting on January 1, 2027, our Department Survey Data Curation, Team Survey Data Augmentation, located in Cologne, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in geocoded electoral data (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, limited to 3 years) The department "Survey Data Curation" processes and prepares social science research data across a diverse range of data types to support sociological and political science research, especially in comparative perspectives across space and time. The curated data include long-running national (e.g., ALLBUS, GLES) and international (e.g., ISSP, CSES) survey programs, which are documented and curated to the highest quality standards, but also research data products derived from or connected to these surveys, such as geo referencing services or trend files. "Electoral Spaces" is a project of our team Survey Data Augmentation that develops a research data infrastructure for making geocoded electoral data more findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable. Your tasks will be: * Leading the development of data curation, validation, and spatial aggregation tools for geocoded electoral data using the statistical software R * Establishing a framework clarifying legal, ethical, and licensing conditions for data provision and reuse * Supporting the principal investigators in coordinating the overall project and managing workflows and project knowledge * Creating user documentation, training materials, and public interfaces for the infrastructure * Conducting methodological or applied research showcasing the added value of the infrastructure, * Opportunity to contribute to a research data infrastructure with substantial impact on the future of democracy research * Work in an integrated yet flexible team of quantitative social scientists with substantial synergies between survey augmentation projects specializing in geospatial data applications and democracy * Flexible working hours and regulations for mobile working * Very good conditions for reconciling work and family life, e.g. subsidies for childcare for children who have not yet attained the age of compulsory schooling * Holistic company health management and discounted participation in the university's sports programme * Generous support for your pension provision as a direct insurance policy * Promotion of your skills through further training measures ## Related Videos - [Beyond Dashboards: Fixing Text-to-SQL with Semantic RAG](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2036-beyond-dashboards-fixing-text-to-sql-with-semantic-rag) - [Unleashing the Power of Developers: Why Cybersecurity is the Missing Piece?!?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/712-unleashing-the-power-of-developers-why-cybersecurity-is-the-missing-piece) - [Full-stack role-based authorization in 45 minutes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/312-full-stack-role-based-authorization-in-45-minutes) - [The Future of Recruiting: Innovations and Challenges in the European IT Sector](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1056-the-future-of-recruiting-innovations-and-challenges-in-the-european-it-sector) - [Swapping a Data Warehouse at Runtime: Zero-Downtime Migration Without Changing a Single Client](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100311-swapping-a-data-warehouse-at-runtime-zero-downtime-migration-without-changing-a-single-client) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - What Development and Tattoos Have in Common and more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1380-wearedevelopers-live-what-development-and-tattoos-have-in-common-and-more) ## Related Articles - [Jobs in Germany for Americans](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/423-jobs-in-germany-for-americans) - [Finding Jobs in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/375-finding-jobs-in-germany) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Data Analyst Salary Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/277-data-analyst-salary-germany) - [System change: restart as developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/39-system-change-restart-as-developer)