Student for Digitization Work
Universität Bern
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:25 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
The Institute for the History of Medicine at Uni Bern has an archive dedicated to medical history. Join a flexible work environment that offers valuable experience in digitization.
Tasks
- Record documents for digitization in Excel tables.
- Prepare and execute digitization of materials.
- Package and label digital documents for research use.
Skills
- Current Bachelor’s or Master’s student with attention to detail.
- Proficient in Office applications, especially Excel and Word.
- Good knowledge of German and French, with a keen interest in digital work.
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The Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern maintains an archive for the history of medicine.
The focus is on documenting Bernese and Swiss medicine, see https://www.img.unibe.ch/dienstleistungen/archiv/index_ger.html
For digitization work in a temporary project, we are looking for:
Student
Employment duration: At least 300 hours, flexible working hours
Start date: by arrangement
Salary: Hourly wage CHF 30.- gross (including vacation)
Job description
• Recording the documents to be digitized in an Excel spreadsheet
• Preparation of digitization
• Digitization of the documents
• Proper packaging and labeling of the digitized documents
• Processing of the digital copies for research
Requirements
• Ongoing Bachelor or Master studies
• Precise and careful working method
• Interest in or experience with digitization work
• IT affinity
• Proficient in common Office applications, especially Excel and Word
• Experience in reading old scripts
• Good German and French skills
Application: By October 30, 2025 to stefan.haechler@unibe.ch (only electronic applications with the usual documents)
Contact and information (Mon-Thu):
Stefan Hächler, Head of the Archive for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern
stefan.haechler@unibe.ch , 031 684 84 28
