Head of Library

About the job

St. Gallen, Switzerland (and home office) | 80-100%

What you can contribute

• Professional, organisational and personnel management of the library including responsibility for budget preparation and control
• Strategic and conceptual further development of the library and its services as a centre for general information procurement, especially considering technological developments
• Maintaining, expanding and bibliographically recording the collections as well as defining and implementing collection policy and subscription portfolio
• Maintaining contact with other specialised libraries, representing the Federal Administrative Court in the library network and actively participating in professional working groups as needed
• Initiating, planning and leading projects to further develop library services

What makes you unique

• University degree or equivalent training in library and information science
• Leadership experience with high social competence as well as experience in a (scientific) library desirable
• Very good knowledge of the library management system, online database research and copyright law
• Knowledge of legal matters or experience in a legal library is an advantage but not mandatory
• Main language German or French with very good active knowledge of the other language

In a nutshell

The staff of the General Secretariat ensure daily the necessary infrastructure for a high-quality and efficient court operation and support the judiciary with a variety of scientific and administrative services. As a sub-unit of the scientific services, the library team aims to provide judges and court clerks with up-to-date and needs-based legal documentation in printed and electronic form and competently support them in bibliographic research. The library holds around 14,400 monographs and 150 current newspaper and journal titles.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at work We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

The Federal Administrative Court, based in St. Gallen, deals with complaints against decisions of federal authorities. The majority of its rulings are final, and only a minority of those appealable to the Federal Supreme Court are further pursued. The high acceptance of its rulings is mainly due to the high quality and appropriate processing time. For this, it offers its employees state-of-the-art workplaces, flexible working time models and a trilingual working environment.

Additional information

Please note that in the case of multiple applications within the Federal Administrative Court, data exchange may occur between the persons involved in the respective applications. Your data will be processed in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, with which you agree by consenting to the privacy policy.

Questions about the position

Bernhard Fasel
Head of Scientific Services / Deputy Secretary General
+41 58 46 52990

Questions about the application

Evelyne Vucic
Head of Human Resources
+41 58 48 14033