Project Manager (Statistics)

About the job

SFPO298_STAT20

Post-Compulsory Education and Guidance Service (SFPO) and Statistics Service (STAT)
The Post-Compulsory Education and Guidance Service (SFPO) and the Statistics Service (STAT) are advertising a 100% project manager position, split between the two services with 40% for STAT in Neuchâtel and 60% for SFPO in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
You will report hierarchically to the management of each of the two services for the tasks within their respective scope.

Your tasks
Post-Compulsory Education and Guidance Service:
You ensure the implementation and IT monitoring of the SFPO's dashboards and statistical indicators. You guarantee the regular updating and IT management of indicators, interactive statistical dashboards, and dedicated databases and, in this context, participate in the development and monitoring of the service's cockpit.
You collaborate with the various service correspondents involved in defining, creating, and compiling statistics and indicators. In compliance with the cantonal statistics law, you ensure the collection, production, coordination, analysis, dissemination, and archiving of statistical data concerning the canton of Neuchâtel, for areas related to the SFPO's missions.
Your work contributes to providing authorities, the service, state institutions, and the public with relevant, reliable, and consistent statistical information.
Statistics Service:
You ensure the implementation and IT monitoring of dashboards and statistical indicators intended for the compulsory education service (SEEO). You are responsible for the regular updating and IT management of indicators, interactive statistical dashboards, and dedicated databases.
In partnership with SEEO and the IT service (SIEN), you manage the implementation as well as the administrative and operational monitoring of projects, while responding to specific related requests.
Your tasks also include collecting, validating, and disseminating data related to compulsory education in collaboration with school districts and the Federal Statistical Office (OFS), among others.
Finally, you contribute to the collection, production, and dissemination of statistical data through defined media.

Your profile
Holder of a university master’s degree or an equivalent diploma in economics, social sciences, econometrics, or statistics, you have at least 2 to 3 years of professional experience in public or private statistics. You possess strong skills in carrying out projects related to statistical data analysis and the creation of interactive statistical dashboards, as well as good experience in planning, organising, and executing cross-functional and multidimensional projects.
You are proficient with Windows office tools, especially Excel, as well as R and Tableau+ software. Experience in statistics related to compulsory education (HARMOS levels 1 to 11) would be an asset.
A positive and facilitative mindset, initiative, and great rigour characterise your working style. Comfortable writing in French and with good knowledge of German, you wish to join dynamic, motivated, and agile teams.

We offer you

• Integration into dynamic, welcoming, and supportive teams.
• A responsible, varied, and motivating position in an environment that promotes innovation.
• Flexible work organisation in a modern environment open to new ideas.

Information
For SFPO:
Ms L. Knoepfler Chevalley, Head of Service, tel. 032 889 79 25 or Ms N. Girardot, Deputy Head of Service, tel. 032 889 64 15.
For STAT:
Mr G. Geiser, Head of Service, tel. 032 889 48 12 or Mr O. Berthoud, Deputy Head of Service, tel. 032 889 46 28.


Working for the State

Female applications are strongly encouraged for senior positions.

We support equal opportunities and inclusion; applications from people of all backgrounds and those living with a disability are welcome.


Application deadline: 10 November 2026
Salary: Class 10
Start date: 1 January 2027 or by agreement