Deputy Director, Head of the Green Spaces Maintenance Unit at 80-100%

• 01 September 2026
• 80 - 100%
• Indefinite duration
• Genève

The Service des espaces verts (SEVE), which has approximately 250 employees, manages and develops the green heritage of the Ville de Genève in a sustainable manner and in the interest of the public. In order to complete its team, the SEVE is looking for its future

Deputy Director, Head of the Green Spaces Maintenance Unit at 80-100% #

Your mission and responsibilities

• Direct and organize the Green Spaces Maintenance unit and manage all its strategic, operational, administrative, legal, and financial activities.
• Supervise the members of the unit's staff (approximately 170) distributed across different sectors, set objectives, and support and accompany them in their mission.
• Develop the directives and processes necessary for proper management and allowing the implementation of management plans and the various strategies of the Ville de Genève (vegetation, climate, biodiversity).
• Optimize the allocated means and resources (human, technical, and financial, etc.).
• Ensure the consistency of operating practices between sectors, work planning, and the correct adequacy of resources to the unit's needs.
• Define a sustainable management policy for green spaces (revalorization of green spaces in favor of the environment, climate change, and biodiversity development).
• Ensure internal communication within the unit.

Your profile

• Hold a HES diploma in nature management or agronomy or training deemed equivalent.
• Demonstrate a confirmed experience of at least 5 years, including the management of large operational teams and budget management.
• Have mastery of green spaces, their maintenance, and their operation.
• Be capable of having a real strategic and organizational vision and taking innovative initiatives.
• Demonstrate leadership and excellent interpersonal skills, a developed sense of human contact, and ease in communication.
• Possess a sense of organization and priorities as well as an ability for analysis and synthesis.
• Master the regulations in force at the communal, cantonal, and federal levels in connection with the management of green spaces.

As part of its policy of equality between women and men, the Ville de Genève wishes to promote gender diversity in all administration services. Female applications are therefore particularly encouraged for this position.

Conditions and registration procedure

Registration deadline: 22.09.2026
Start date: to be agreed
Job classification: Class N of the salary scale

Application file

The application file must contain the following elements: motivation letter; detailed curriculum vitae or, failing that, the completed "Demande d'emploi" form (to be downloaded from our website); copies of diplomas and work certificates; recent photo (passport format).
In its desire to fight unemployment, the city encourages applications from the Office cantonal de l'emploi.

Follow-up of applications

In the Ville de Genève, the recruitment process is decentralized. This means that each service or department is responsible for following up on applications for the positions it offers. An acknowledgment of receipt will be sent to candidates.

Employment conditions

Employees of the Ville de Genève must be domiciled in the authorized domiciliation zone and hold a valid work permit or authorization.

More information on the working conditions of the Ville de Genève: https://www.geneve.ch/emploi