Head of Public Space

Are you looking for a meaningful leadership task with great creative freedom? Are you interested in social and socio-cultural topics and in how public spaces must be designed so that people can feel welcome, meet, and participate? The Public Space division is being newly created. As Head of Public Space, you will bring together the four specialist departments Community Development, Cafébar, Facility Management, and Infrastructure & Technical Production and develop them into a common division with clear roles, good cooperation, and a shared orientation.

In the public space, the Berner Generationenhaus becomes immediately tangible in everyday life: as a place where people of different generations and lifeworlds are welcome, can spend time, meet, and participate - even without consumption or participation in an offering. The new division therefore combines social, hosting, operational, and infrastructural perspectives.

These are your tasks ###

• To organizationally, culturally, and procedurally merge and further develop the four specialist departments with 5 directly subordinate employees into a common division, as well as to strengthen cooperation across specialist department and division boundaries; this also includes participation in the management committee
• To lead and further develop the specialist department managers and employees, and to promote a culture of personal responsibility, cooperation, and learning
• To further develop the public space as an open, safe, hospitable, and lively meeting place, thereby combining social function, quality of stay, and operational requirements
• To shape the interfaces to the overall organization and to internal and external partners, bring together different interests, and develop sustainable solutions
• To translate the organizational strategy into concrete goals, measures, and priorities for the division, as well as to make decisions and ensure their implementation
• To manage and be responsible for the budget, resources, processes, and quality development of the division
• To proactively help shape the long-term development of the public space in the context of site development, station expansion, and other changes in the surroundings of the Berner Generationenhaus
• To ensure the flow of information within the division and at the interfaces to the overall organization, to communicate decisions and developments in a comprehensible manner, and to communicatively accompany change processes

This characterizes you ###

• Several years of leadership experience in a complex environment as well as experience in responsibility for different teams, specialist departments, or managers
• Ability to provide orientation, clarify responsibilities, set priorities, and remain capable of making decisions even in demanding situations
• Experience in the further development of structures, roles, and cooperation, as well as in the careful and binding design of change processes
• Ability to bring together different professional perspectives, needs, and interests and to advance common solutions and developments
• Strong communication skills as well as the ability to convey complex contexts understandably, make decisions comprehensible, and involve different stakeholders
• Confidence in the interplay of strategic development and the concrete requirements of an ongoing operation and experience in budget, resource, and quality responsibility
• Interest in social and socio-cultural topics as well as a good sense of what makes an open, hospitable, and well-functioning meeting place