School Management (80-100%) / Co-School Management Upper Secondary Center Langenthal
Volksschule LangenthaI
Langenthal
Key information
- Publication date:06 November 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Langenthal
Portrait of the School/Institution
The city of Langenthal forms the center of the Bernese Oberaargau with a catchment area of around 80,000 people and, with around 16,300 inhabitants, is the eighth largest municipality in the canton of Bern.
At the public school of the city of Langenthal, around 1,700 students are taught in five school centers. For the Upper Secondary Center, its 50-60 teachers and around 500 students, we are looking for a professionally and personally convincing personality as part of the succession planning for the 2026/2027 school year.
School Management (80-100%) / Co-School Management Upper Secondary Center Langenthal
Public School Langenthal, Upper Secondary Center
4900 Langenthal
4900 Langenthal
Tasks
• You assume the pedagogical, operational-business, and personnel overall responsibility of the Upper Secondary Center Langenthal within the framework of cantonal and municipal laws and regulations.
Requirements
• You have experience in the school sector in a heterogeneous environment and have completed school management training.
• You bring several years of practical experience in a leadership role.
• Furthermore, you are a balanced and forward-looking, solution-oriented personality with assertiveness and high social competence, who approaches change and development processes with motivation and implements them purposefully.
• You appreciate working in a diverse, urban environment and bring openness to different perspectives.
• As a personality, you have communication and teamwork skills as well as flexibility.
• Your leadership style is characterized by participation, transparency, personal responsibility, and trust, thus contributing to the further development of the public school Langenthal.
We Offer
• You can expect a wide variety of exciting tasks and opportunities to engage/contribute to the school development of secondary level 1 in Langenthal.
• There is a collegial working atmosphere in a well-networked and long-standing team of school management as well as highly committed and motivated teachers.
• Through meaningful work, you make an important contribution to the city of Langenthal and are supported by the Office for Education, Culture, and Sports of the city.
The position can be filled either as overall school management or in a co-school management. In the case of co-school management, applications as a tandem are explicitly considered, who apply together for co-school management and take on approximately an equal workload.
Contact
Your questions about the position will be answered by Ms. Stefanie Barben-Kohler, Chairwoman of the Public School Commission, phone 076 406 05 56, or Mr. Daniel Ott, Head of the Office for Education, Culture, and Sports, phone 062 916 22 44.
Please submit your dossier exclusively online.
Additional Information
Start of Employment
01.08.2026
Application Deadline
05.12.2025
Reference
36243
