Postdoctoral Researcher / Scientific Collaborator: Social Production Satellite Account for Switzerland 80 - 100 %

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Your responsibilities

* Aligning the established social production method with European System of Accounts (ESA 2010), adapting how it is applied and reported while preserving the underlying methodology.

* Mapping the social production categories to available SAKE data, assessing coverage, and conducting a gap analysis of categories not yet captured.

* Compiling and analysing the relevant Swiss data sources to produce the pilot account's first estimates.

* Building the account into a working statistical product, documented and reproducible so that it could be updated on a regular cycle by Switzerland and/or other nations wishing to adopt the approach.

* Co-authoring research and policy outputs, including a joint report on social production in Switzerland.

* Preparing a methodological report setting out options to extend category coverage, with recommendations for Switzerland and a generalisable approach that other national statistical offices could follow.

* 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.

Your profile

Essential

* A doctorate in economics, applied statistics, or a quantitative social science or data science.

* Familiarity with national accounts concepts and conventions (ESA 2010), ideally including satellite accounting.

* Demonstrated skills in handling survey and time-use microdata.

* A strong command of time-series and index methods, including constant-price adjustment.

* A translational research orientation, comfortable working across an academic research team and a national statistical office and communicating with policy audiences.

* Working proficiency in German or French, together with English.

Desirable

* Experience with time-use surveys or unpaid-work modules in labour force surveys.

* A systems-oriented perspective on demographic change, the care economy, fiscal sustainability, and the intersection of market and non-market production.

* Experience working in or with a statistical office or national accounts setting.

* A record of peer-reviewed publication and technical reporting.

What we offer

* 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 the 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.

Working arrangement and independence

The position is employed by the University of Zurich Healthy Longevity Centre. Working time is divided between the FSO National Accounts Division in Neuchâtel, where the day-to-day work sits, and the UZH Centre for Healthy Longevity, with research supervision shared between the partners under a light joint-oversight arrangement.

A clear separation is maintained between FSO-hosted research and official statistics, and no output carries the FSO's name without its approval. The underlying method is published and open.