Assistant in Traffic and Urban Space

Tasks

• You are responsible for the efficient and reliable administrative handling of matters within our division.
• You edit and process all financial transactions in the division, ensuring high quality and recipient-appropriate preparation.
• You proofread population concerns and applications in consultation with the responsible project managers.
• You provide support in the preparation and execution of committees, workshops, and events. For certain committees, you independently manage the office in collaboration with the project manager.
• You think in a networked way, quickly grasp connections, and keep an overview even with different tasks and stakeholder groups.

Profile

• Several years of professional experience in a demanding administrative role; commercial training is an advantage.
• Networked and solution-oriented thinking as well as the ability to quickly familiarise yourself with new topics and tasks.
• Professional interaction with various contacts, strong communication skills, and a high service orientation.
• Very good oral and written language skills, confident German, and good knowledge of the M365 environment.
• Structured, independent, and responsible personality with high initiative as well as willingness for professional development and gradual assumption of additional responsibility.

We offer

• The opportunity to help shape the future of the largest Swiss city.
• A culture characterised by the values respectful, reliable, ambitious, and inclusive, and an employer who lives equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Passionate and committed colleagues whose hearts beat for Zurich.
• A workplace within walking distance of Zurich main station.
• Attractive employment conditions, such as contributions to meal costs, a solid pension fund with above-average employer contributions, and the opportunity to balance work and private life with flexible working hours and home office.

About us

For a high quality of life: The approximately 350 employees of the Department of Civil Engineering shape mobility and public space daily in the largest city in Switzerland.

Interested?

Please apply via our online tool stadt.zuerich.ch/tiefbauamtjobs.

Please address your application to the Department of Civil Engineering City of Zurich, Ylenia Metzger, HR Marketing Specialist + HR Business Partner, Werdmühleplatz 3, 8001 Zurich.

For information, please contact Jacqueline Marti, Senior Assistant, T +41 44 412 27 36.