Commercial Clerk as All-Rounder 50% - Where Detail Matters and the Whole Must Be Right...

Precision is not pedantry. It saves others work.

Our client is an established, professionally managed institution in Basel, dedicated to demanding social tasks. Its work is meaningful, but its organisation is anything but a matter of idealism alone. Behind a convincing social performance stand reliable structures, carefully managed processes, and an office that meets its diverse tasks with professionalism and prudence.

This is exactly where a commercially skilled individual comes into play, combining organisational talent with linguistic agility, digital competence, and a pronounced understanding of good service. We are not looking for an administrative jack-of-all-trades who knows a bit of everything, but an experienced specialist with a broad commercial foundation, sound judgement, and the ambition not just to complete tasks, but to conclude them independently and convincingly.

Therefore, we are looking immediately or by arrangement for a

Commercial Clerk as All-Rounder 50% - Where Detail Matters and the Whole Must Be Right...

These are your tasks:

• The role operates at the interface of administration, communication, data management, and organisational quality assurance. Different topics require different skills. What unites them is the demand for careful, thoughtful, and efficient handling.
• Office organisation: Demanding correspondence, reports, and business documents are just as much part of it as the structured preparation of information, coordination of organisational processes, and reliable management of recurring tasks.
• Data management and digitalisation: Maintaining the CRM system, managing data inventories, templates and forms, as well as documenting and further developing internal processes are important components of the role. Digitalisation and the sensible use of new technologies, including AI, also offer opportunities for shaping the work.
• Communication and editing: Whether publications, reports, website content, or other communication tools: a confident sense of language, editorial care, and a trained eye for content, design, and a consistent appearance are required.
• Fundraising and contract administration: Supporting service agreements and funding contributions, managing donor data, monitoring relevant deadlines, and assisting with reports and correspondence require accuracy and a good understanding of organisational contexts and goal-oriented results.

What makes this role special

It is not just the professional diversity alone. What matters more is how it is handled. Whoever takes responsibility here should enjoy delving into different matters, recognising connections, and keeping an overview even with demanding details. Perseverance and creativity in searching for viable solutions are expressly welcome. Also, the ability to distinguish the important from the trivial.

Because a professional office does not live from as many completed tasks as possible, but from coherent results that others can rely on. Especially management must be able to trust that delegated work convinces professionally, linguistically, and formally.

Your professional background:

• A solid commercial education and several years of broad-based professional experience form the foundation. Particularly welcome are individuals who have already worked in a versatile office, a demanding assistant role, or a comparable administrative hub.
• Fluent German, very good knowledge of MS Office applications, and confident handling of digital work tools are prerequisites. Experience with CRM systems, document management, or editorial tasks is an advantage.
• Equally important are qualities that cannot be expressed in a diploma: analytical thinking, a pronounced quality awareness, discretion, organisational prudence, and the ability to independently produce viable results.
• We are looking for a person who does not confuse accuracy with sluggishness, combines initiative with moderation, and remains careful even when several tasks demand attention simultaneously.

Here, neither a pronounced social vocation nor the enjoyment of administrative routine alone is decisive. Rather, it is about commercial skills, a sense of responsibility, and the personal ambition to deliver good work. Those who understand accuracy as a strength and live reliability rather than merely promise it are likely to feel very comfortable in this role.

Interested? Then I look forward to your application. Questions? Just give me a call.