Head: Institute for Learning under Challenging Conditions (Member of the University Management) <br> 80 – 100%
Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik Zürich
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:17 December 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
The Intercantonal University of Special Education (HfH) is the most important Swiss competence center for special and remedial education with around 2,000 students. In teaching, research, and services, we are committed to participation and educational equity. Our work combines scientific excellence with social responsibility and is oriented towards the needs of practice, politics, and the education system.
Head: Institute for Learning under Challenging Conditions (Member of the University Management)
80 – 100%
For the management of the Institute for Learning under Challenging Conditions (ILEB), we are looking for a proven expert as of July 1, 2026, or by agreement, who enjoys further developing the institute professionally together with colleagues, strategically positioning it, and shaping it innovatively.
The focus of the institute is on the question of how access to educational standards and curricula can be ensured equitably in the context of challenging learning conditions and how the fit between learning offerings and learning prerequisites can be increased to enable successful educational pathways.
For this position, we are looking for a personality with a passion for shaping, scientific excellence, strong practical orientation, and great integrative power, who understands how to promote joint development processes and strengthen the discourse between research, teaching, and practice. You actively shape the future of the institute and the HfH and contribute your own research questions and teaching impulses within the fourfold mandate.
Your area of responsibility
- Responsibility for the organizational, personnel, and financial management of the institute
- Active participation and collaboration in university management in university development
- Strategic and content-related further development and profiling of the institute in line with the overall strategy of the HfH
- Ensuring and further developing the institute's focus areas within the fourfold mandate (education, continuing education, research & development, services) considering current and future challenges from science, practice, and politics
- Networking with practice and science nationally and internationally
- Taking on teaching and/or R&D as well as service tasks
Your profile
- University degree in social sciences related to special and remedial education
- Doctorate related to special or remedial education
- Extensive professional experience in a special and remedial educational field
- Proven leadership and management skills, especially in dynamic and changing contexts
- Enjoyment in taking responsibility, steering developments, and actively and agilely shaping change processes
- Experience in leading and promoting experts as well as collaborating in interdisciplinary teams
- Several years of university experience in teaching, research, and/or services, combined with a good understanding of the institutional framework conditions of a university
- Very good knowledge of the Swiss education landscape as well as good knowledge of a second national language and English
For further information, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Barbara Fäh
Rector
Phone +41 44 317 11 00
barbara.faeh@hfh.ch.
We look forward to receiving your complete application documents by January 13, 2026, via the online platform.
www.hfh.ch
Prof. Dr. Barbara Fäh
Rector
Phone +41 44 317 11 00
barbara.faeh@hfh.ch.
We look forward to receiving your complete application documents by January 13, 2026, via the online platform.
www.hfh.ch
