BAS BS: Legal Intern with MLaw or BLaw 50% (fixed-term employment for at least six months)

• 09 July 2026
• 50%
• Permanent position
• Basel

HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates with 290 programmes and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached around 16 million people with its work.

HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural livelihoods are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilises for this purpose.

Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.

BAS BS: Legal Intern with MLaw or BLaw 50% (fixed-term employment for at least six months) #

The BAS Advice Centre for Asylum Seekers in the Basel region provides legal advice and representation in asylum and immigration law to asylum seekers and persons with completed asylum procedures residing in Basel-Stadt. BAS is responsible for representing asylum seekers assigned to the canton BS in the extended procedure. The legal advisors file complaints when refugee status is in question, procedural errors exist, or a removal of the affected persons is unreasonable. In BAS's open consultations, persons from the asylum sector receive low-threshold and free personal legal advice without prior appointment. BAS also accompanies/represents persons in hardship or reconsideration requests, family reunification matters, or travel and canton change requests. To support our motivated team, we are looking for a cooperative and committed individual from 1 September 2026 as

These are your main tasks:

• Legal clarifications and individual case assessments
• Support of lawyers in legal submissions to the Federal Administrative Court, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), or the cantonal authorities
• Telephone and personal legal consultations

Ideally, you bring the following:

• Law studies (with interest in asylum and immigration law issues)
• Very good written expression
• Enjoyment and sensitivity in dealing with people from different cultures
• Very good oral foreign language skills, especially French and English, other languages an advantage
• Flexibility, independence, and high resilience

What you can expect from us:

Versatile, challenging, and meaningful work at the interface of law and social issues

Committed and competent colleagues

Workplace in the centre of Basel

Would you like to join the HEKS team? Then we look forward to receiving your application by 2 August 2026 via our application tool. Please understand that applications by email or letter cannot be processed.

For further information, Ms Sabine Eichenberger, MLaw (sabine.eichenberger@heks.ch), will be happy to assist you.

More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.