Zürich
HR Assistant: 60% Human Resources Management
- 17 July 2026
- 60%
- Permanent position
- Zürich
Job summary
Join the PH Zürich as an HR Assistant for 6 months! Thrive in a supportive environment.
Tasks
- Provide administrative support for recruitment and personnel care.
- Manage personnel entries, changes, and exits efficiently.
- Digitize and organize documents in electronic personnel files.
Skills
- Completed EFZ in business with HR assistant training preferred.
- Excellent communication skills in German, both written and spoken.
- Strong organizational skills and digital tool proficiency.
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About the job
1 October 2026 – limited to 6 months
The Zurich University of Teacher Education actively shapes education, school, and teaching of today and tomorrow in teaching and research.
Over 900 scientific, administrative, and technical staff are engaged at PH Zurich with much spirit, hand, and heart. The Human Resources Management department combines the expertise of HR consulting, personnel development, and services (HR services).
We look forward to an engaged, flexible, and team-oriented personality. You bring a positive demeanour, grasp new tasks quickly, and work focused and precisely even when the work pace is higher. You appreciate varied administrative tasks and enjoy actively and solution-oriented supporting the HR Consulting and HR Services teams.
The position offers you the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a versatile and professional HR environment.
Administrative and organisational support in personnel recruitment and care, in particular:
- Creating advertisements, organising appointments, and correspondence
- Managing personnel entries, changes, and exits
- Process responsibility for work and interim references (without content review)
- Digitising and systematically filing documents in the electronic personnel file
- Entering data and changes in the SAP tool
- Processing the process for contractors and individual compensations
- Commercial employee with a federal VET diploma and professional experience
- Successfully completed further training as an HR assistant or a comparable education/training
- Very good German skills in spoken and written form as well as confident, target-group appropriate communication
- A focused, structured, efficient, and precise working style even under high workload
- Digital affinity and confident, intuitive use of MS Office, Teams, and other digital tools
The PH Zurich offers you more than a centrally located workplace in close proximity to Zurich main station. You benefit from very good employment conditions as well as a meaningful working environment in the education sector. What else distinguishes us can be found here .
If you would like to start with us on 1 October and enrich our two HR teams with your organisational talent, accuracy, and positive nature, we look forward to receiving your application.
Please submit your complete application dossier exclusively via our online application platform. We prefer direct applications and ask for your understanding that we do not consider recruitment agencies or email applications.
Sabine Katharina Leu
HR Consultant
E-mail: sabine.leu@phzh.ch
Inken Widmer
Team Leader HR Consulting
Tel.: +41 43 305 50 27
E-mail: inken.widmer@phzh.ch