TERENA, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, offers a forum for collaboration, innovation and knowledge sharing in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community.

The development and progress in Internet technology have been led by the research community since the very beginning of the Internet. Today, that community is still a main driver of the further development of the Internet. In Europe, this leading role is made possible by the collaboration of network engineers and managers from all over the region, facilitated and supported by TERENA. The association's core business is to bring together managers, technical specialists and other people in the research networking community with their counterparts from other countries in Europe, mobilising the expertise and experience of hundreds of professionals in the research and education networking area.

One of TERENA's activities is the production of an annual Compendium of Research and Education Networking in Europe. This Compendium is based on an extensive annual survey of national research and education networks (NRENs). It provides unique information about the development of NRENs in key areas such as legal form, users, network and traffic and budget and staffing.

The TERENA Secretariat is a small team of about 16 people and is housed in the Amsterdam city centre. It consists of a technical staff, which manages the Technical Programme of task forces and projects and provides technical support to all of TERENA's activities, and an administrative staff, which supports TERENA's executive bodies, takes care of the organisation of conferences and workshops and provides administrative and financial support. The working language of TERENA is English.

TERENA currently has a vacancy for a part-time Data Analyst.

DATA ANALYST

The Data Analyst will work part-time (in principle 2.5 days a week) with relevant members of the TERENA Technical staff and NREN representatives to assist with the data gathering and analysis for the 2011 edition of the TERENA Compendium. This is a position for a definite period of four months, starting from 1 May.

Duties

• Double-checking data as submitted by NRENs via the on-line web interface for completeness and internal consistency, also by comparing data submitted with data submitted in previous years
• Generating Excel spreadsheets with information gathered per question or group of questions
• Comparing data from different countries and checking for inconsistencies, under the supervision of a relevant member of the TERENA Technical Staff
• Requesting further information and clarification from NRENs as necessary, in consultation with a relevant member of the TERENA Technical Staff
• Aggregating data from groups of NRENs or groups of countries and preparing data series for several years
• Preparing Excel graphs based on the data