Internship at the Youth Center
Gemeinde Goldach
Goldach
Key information
- Publication date:23 January 2026
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Goldach
Job summary
The Offene Jugendarbeit Goldach (OJAG) fosters youth engagement. It offers a supportive, professional environment for local teens.
Tasks
- Manage youth center operations and ensure house rules are followed.
- Plan and implement youth projects, promoting participation and skills.
- Provide outreach and support to teens in public spaces.
Skills
- Minimum age of 21, and completion of Praxismodul I or II required.
- Strong communication skills and relationship-building capabilities.
- Ability to plan and organize engaging youth activities.
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The Open Youth Work Goldach (OJAG) forms a department within the Youth & Family specialist office. The main office of OJAG is located in the youth center at St. Gallerstrasse 75. The entire OJAG area is structurally divided into 4 areas: youth center, projects and actions, outreach youth work, and information and counseling. OJAG offers a preventive, professional, and low-threshold leisure program for young people from the 1st year of secondary school up to their 18th birthday. We offer the following position starting August 2026:
- Youth center operation: relationship work / co-responsibility for compliance with house rules / game animator and play partner / co-supervision and organization of the bar team / motivation work / minute taking
- Actions and projects: participatory planning, preparation, and implementation of actions / accompany the operating group / gender work: implementation of gender-specific offers / collaboration on major projects
- Outreach youth work: visiting young people / relationship work in public spaces / public relations / schoolyard visits
- Information and counseling: low-threshold counseling / providing youth-specific materials/brochures / information events
- Administration: office applications / taking meeting minutes / maintaining statistics / material responsibility / small maintenance and cleaning tasks
- Networking: participation in network meetings / minute taking
- For the university of applied sciences: formulating learning objectives / monitoring working hours / keeping a learning diary / acquiring specialist knowledge
4 areas:
1. Youth center operation
The youth center offers a wide range of leisure opportunities. This allows young people to shape their free time according to their needs and to be professionally accompanied and supported by adult specialists. The infrastructure of the youth center provides rooms and resources that allow activities or serve as a place to stay and meet and are regularly open.
2. Actions and projects
Actions and projects are offered both during meeting opening hours and outside of them. Professional planning, implementation, and evaluation are guaranteed for actions and projects. The promotion of independence and self-organization of young people is targeted. Participation and social skills are strengthened and expanded, and the resources of young people are recognized and promoted.
3. Outreach youth work
In outreach youth work, OJAG offers support and counseling for young people and youth groups in the context of their life world and life situation to clarify their situation, formulate their own wishes and goals, and clarify their own resources.
4. Information and counseling
Young people have the opportunity to receive information and counseling on everyday questions from youth workers in a low-threshold manner. The resources of young people are activated and accessed. Open youth work also has a broad network of specialists to ensure optimal triage.
For further information, please contact Bianca Dörig, Head of Youth Work, phone 058 228 78 95 or email bianca.doerig@goldach.ch.
Information about the municipality is available at www.goldach.ch. We kindly ask you to submit your application profile exclusively online via our recruiting tool – thank you very much.
Municipal Council Goldach
