2 Student Assistants for Impact and Portfolio Management

Do you want to work in a purpose driven environment, helping the Novo Nordisk Foundation achieving its goals to drive societal impact? And are you currently studying for a bachelor's degree or just started with your master's degree? Then come work for our Impact, Projects & Portfolio department that strives to support the organisation’s impact culture, project excellence and portfolio management of grants.

We have two open Student Assistant positions, one in the Portfolio Management Team, and on in the Impact Management Team. Please indicate in your application which position you are applying for. The working hours for both positions will be approximately 15-20 hours a week with flexibility in relation to your studies.

In the Portfolio Management team you will contribute to our collaboration with other departments of the Foundation in a project-centric way to support portfolio management processes. We are looking for a student that thrives with supporting the following tasks:

• Data processing and analytics
• Update of project database
• Ad hoc assistance with various projects
• Assist with slides
• Support with workshop preparation

Professional qualifications

• BSc student within the areas of medical or natural sciences, engineering, data science and business administration
• Hold interest in the scientific environment 
• Super user in the MS Office package and particularly in Excel and Powerpoint 
• Possesses strong verbal and written communicative abilities in English and Danish
• Skills within graphic design and data analytics is considered an advantage

Personal Qualifications

• Flexible and meets deadlines 
• Thorough, systematic and have a high attention to detail 
• Strong team player who can both initiate and finish tasks independently
• Positive can-do attitude, proactive and strong collaborative skills

 
The Impact Management team is involved in every step of the value chain of a grant from ideation to long-term outcomes and impact:

• We help our colleagues identify impact pathways to strengthen initiative design, plan data collection, monitoring and evaluation, using various developed approach
• We deliver insights through evaluation and analysis to serve organisation needs and train the organisation in using intelligence tools
• We mine data to find impact stories to learn and identify the impact of our funding on people and the planet

We are looking for a student that thrives in changing tasks supporting the team lead with Communication support, e.g. slide preparation Powerpoint or Miro, supporting the team with ad hoc data preparation and analysis tasks, data visualisation tasks and internally and for colleagues across the organisation, and other ad hoc tasks

Professional Qualifications

• You have a flair and passion for communicating and data visualisation of data
• You have experience using Miro or similar tool
• You understand and are interested in working with impact-oriented theory of change
• Basic experience coding in SQL or Python is an advantage

Personal Qualifications 

• Flexible, highly self-motivated and can work independently but not afraid to ask for help/feedback
• Open-minded to learning through many different types of tasks and use of methodologies
• You have a collaborative mind-set

 
Application

Please submit your application, CV, and latest transcipts as soon as possible, and no later than 28 November 2025 by clicking the "Apply now" button. We review applications on an ongoing basis. Please note that the job posting may be closed earlier if we find the right candidate.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Established in Denmark in 1924, the Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives. The vision of the Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. The Foundation’s mission is to progress research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases as well as to advance knowledge and solutions to support a green transformation of society.