Specialist Responsibility Adult Education "German and Integration" 80-90% Thurgau

Key information

  • Publication date:04 October 2025
  • Workload:80 – 90%
  • Contract type:Unlimited employment
  • Place of work:Amriswil

Job summary

HEKS employs over 1500 staff across 35 countries. Join us to make a difference!

Tasks

  • Lead and develop our language and integration programs in Thurgau.
  • Ensure high teaching standards and meet current educational trends.
  • Support course leaders and enhance our educational offerings.

Skills

  • Degree in education or related field with teaching experience required.
  • Strong organizational and pedagogical skills needed.
  • Empathetic personality with excellent communication abilities.

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HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff members. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates with 290 programs and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached around 16 million people with its work. HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.

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Specialist Responsibility Adult Education «German and Integration» 80-90% Thurgau

HEKS in-fra is a language and integration program for women, men, and children and offers German courses at various levels in the canton of Thurgau. Currently, these are 50 semester courses at 4 locations (Arbon, Amriswil, Weinfelden, and Kreuzlingen), conducted by 15 course instructors. HEKS in-fra is also an accredited fide examination institution.

We are now filling an exciting position in which you will take over the professional and personnel management of our course instructors and at the same time shape the further development and quality of our educational offerings. You ensure that our courses meet high andragogical standards, are oriented to needs and current trends, and accompany people in their development.

For this, we are looking for someone immediately or by agreement 


These are your main tasks:

Professional and personnel management at the course instructor level

  • Take over professional and personnel responsibility for the course instructors and ensure their continuous development
  • Plan and lead team meetings, intervisions, and training measures
  • Visit course instructors in class and provide professional, methodological, and didactic support
  • Responsible for the entire personnel cycle from recruitment, onboarding to feedback and annual discussions
  • Be the first contact person for course instructors on personnel matters

Professional management at the quality and development level

  • Andragogical concept and quality: Continuously develop the educational concept and co-responsible for quality assurance/development (including eduQua, fide)
  • Internal development: Initiate internal training, team processes, and intervisions
  • Offer development: Design new offers, evaluate, optimize existing ones, and incorporate trends into strategic processes
  • Consultation and learning reports: Responsible for learning reports and advise course participants and referring agencies on course offerings and follow-up solutions
  • Planning and coordination: Coordinate and create deployment and course planning
  • Network and interfaces: Maintain a broad professional network and ensure internal and external interfaces

You bring the following:

  • Completed studies or higher professional training in the field of DaF/DaZ, adult education, pedagogy, social sciences, or a comparable qualification (ideally with a federal specialist certificate as a trainer)
  • Many years of experience in adult education, especially in language teaching (German as a second language)
  • Training or further education in leadership, counseling, or coaching desirable
  • fide certificate "Language course instructors in the integration area"
  • Solid knowledge in didactics and methodology of adult education as well as in quality assurance (eduQua, fide advantageous)
  • Strong organizational and conceptual skills, enjoyment in further developing educational offerings
  • Communicative, empathetic personality with counseling competence, foresight, willingness to maintain networks
  • Independent, structured, solution-oriented working style in close cooperation with internal and external partners

You can expect from us:

  • A participatory and role-based working environment with a lot of responsibility and scope for design in the organization
  • A committed and cheerful team where togetherness is central
  • A sunny and well-accessible workplace by public transport in Amriswil
  • Meaningful activity in an environment that promotes integration and education
  • Support for further training and development opportunities within the organization
  • Open feedback culture and short decision-making paths thanks to role-based structure
  • Flexible working hours model, 1–2 days home office, modern employment conditions
  • Attractive social benefits and fair remuneration

Would you like to join the HEKS team and do you have the appropriate qualifications? Then we look forward to receiving your application by October 22, 2025 via our application tool. The first interviews will take place online between October 28 and 30, 2025, the second round on November 6 and 10, 2025 in Amriswil. 

For further information, Gessica Lavanga, Specialist Adult Education, is available by phone at 079 773 50 02 from October 13, 2025.

More information about HEKS in-fra at  https://www.heks.ch/projekte/heks-infra


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