Röm.-kath. Landeskirche des Kantons Luzern
Luzern
Pastoral Area Leader (80 - 100% workload)
- 27 March 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- Luzern
Job summary
Join the Catholic Church in Lucerne, a vibrant community. This role offers a unique opportunity for spiritual engagement and leadership.
Tasks
- Lead the pastoral area of Lucerne, guiding community leaders.
- Develop the pastoral area with support from an external agency.
- Conduct liturgies and provide empathetic pastoral care.
Skills
- Theology degree with diocese certification or equivalent experience.
- Leadership experience and transformative vision are essential.
- Strong analytical and team-oriented mindset is required.
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About the job
You are a appreciative, spiritual, inclusive, socially and culturally committed personality. You are enthusiastic about shaping the development of the pastoral area. Your participative leadership style and open communication distinguish you. You foster ecumenical and interreligious exchange. A consensual and partnership-based collaboration within the church's dual structure is a matter of course for you.
What you will specifically do:
- You lead the Pastoral Area of the City of Lucerne and manage the community leaders and other persons.
- You further develop the pastoral area. In the change project "Further Development of the Pastoral Area" you will be supported by an external agency.
- You take on the leadership of the parishes St. Anton – St. Michael with a 30% workload. You will be administratively supported by another leader with a 100% workload as well as by a committed team. You design people-centred liturgies and attend to pastoral care attentively and empathetically.
- If duly elected by the community leaders and priests in the pastoral area, you will also take a seat on the church council with a 20% workload.
What you bring:
- a completed theology degree with professional induction from the Diocese of Basel (or equivalent training)
- an explicit desire to live a shared leadership model and to transform the organisation
- training and experience in leadership
- creativity, enthusiasm and persuasiveness
- analytical thinking, teamwork skills as well as networked and out-of-the-box thinking
What to expect:
- an exciting, meaningful job with plenty of scope for creativity
- a responsible, lively and people-oriented role
- attractive employment conditions and opportunities for further training, very good social benefits
Information about the Catholic Church City of Lucerne: www.kathluzern.ch.
Contact: Rafal Lupa, Lead Priest, Tel. 041 229 98 10, rafal.lupa@kathluzern.ch
Application: We look forward to receiving your application. Please send your dossier to the Personnel Department of the Diocese of Basel, personalamt@bistum-basel.ch with a copy to the Personnel Department of the Catholic Parish of Lucerne, bewerbung@kathluzern.ch.
