Head of Department Service & Agogics (80-100 %)

Start of position:

1 June 2027

Work location:

Erlach

We are taking retirements in the service area as an opportunity to realign our organization as of summer 2027. In doing so, we are bundling management structures and simultaneously developing the agogic orientation of our operational areas in a targeted manner.

For this realignment, we are looking for a strong-willed, innovative, and networked-thinking personality as of 1 June 2027.

You will take over the overall operational and strategic leadership of the Infrastructure & Environment, Kitchen and Housekeeping areas and lead the responsible group managements directly. At the same time, you will shape an important development step for the SHE: In the future, our operational areas should serve even more strongly as learning, experience, and relief spaces for our students.

Your tasks

|| Lead and shape: You lead the entire service area personally, professionally, and organizationally, further develop the group managements, and ensure sustainable structures and efficient processes.
|| Further develop agogics: Together with the specialist departments, you further develop the work-agogic orientation and create practical modules with an educational character as well as supplementary relief offers in interaction with the school mandate.
|| Enable learning worlds: You use the diverse operational work fields -- from infrastructure and environment to agriculture, garden and Seemätteli to kitchen and housekeeping -- as real learning and experience spaces for our students.
|| Work interdisciplinary: You actively shape the cooperation between school, living/social pedagogy, and the service area. Together, suitable offers and settings are developed that are oriented toward the individual needs of the students.
|| Take responsibility: You are responsible for personnel recruitment and development, resource and deployment planning, as well as the budget of your area, and ensure compliance with the cantonal framework conditions.
|| Shape the institution: As a member of the management team, you actively contribute your perspective to the strategic and organizational further development of the Schulheim Schloss Erlach.

Your profile

|| Qualification and leadership: You have a completed vocational qualification (EFZ) as well as sound professional and leadership experience. Relevant leadership training is an advantage; equivalent, proven leadership experience will also be considered.
|| Agogic competence: You bring work-pedagogical or agogic qualifications or sound practical experience -- or are willing to develop specifically in this area.
|| Networked thinking: You recognize development opportunities and understand how to combine operational requirements with pedagogical-agogic objectives.
|| Personality: You are a stable, resilient, and conflict-capable leadership personality who involves employees, provides orientation, and takes responsibility.
|| Attitude and integrity: A solution-oriented basic attitude, professional handling of closeness and distance, and responsible handling of confidential information are a matter of course for you.

We offer you

|| You do not simply take over an existing area -- you receive the opportunity to actively help shape and build a new organizational structure.
|| You work at an exciting interface of leadership, operations, education, and agogics and can contribute to ensuring that additional learning and development spaces for children and adolescents arise from operational work fields.
|| A multi-professional environment, short decision-making paths, scope for design, and employment conditions according to the cantonal regulations of the Direktion für Inneres und Justiz await you.

Contact

Curious? Your contact for questions: Nicole Tribolet, HR Sachbearbeiterin, Telefon 031 638 00 00, nicole.tribolet@be.ch

The Schulheim Schloss Erlach is a cantonal institution of the education system for child and youth welfare. Children and adolescents with normal abilities, some with learning impairments, who find themselves in difficult life situations, are schooled and cared for here. They live in socio-pedagogical residential groups mixed by age and gender and mostly attend the internal special education school. In the sense of reintegration, the institution also offers day groups for external students as well as regular school attendance in Erlach. The agricultural and gardening business, the Technical Service, the Housekeeping, the Catering, and the Administration are part of the pedagogical concept: they serve as learning, experience, and work fields. The institution works according to the systemic-solution-oriented approach LOA. In accompanying the clientele, we orient ourselves towards the model of Cooperative Process Design (KPG).