Luzern

Headteacher (a) Asylum School Programmes

19 October 2026
80 – 100%
Permanent position
German (Intermediate)
Museggstrasse 37, 6004 Luzern

About the job

Headteacher (a) Asylum School Programmes

80% - 100% | Lucerne | from 01.02.2027

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Shaping the future together: The Asylum School Programmes Lucerne are looking for a headteacher who is committed with great dedication and passion to the education and support of refugee children, adolescents and young adults. As part of our ongoing organisational development, the position offers a wide scope for design and active participation opportunities.

Your tasks

With pedagogical foresight and organisational skill, you lead school locations in and around Lucerne - school locations for foreign-language adolescents and young adults aged 16 to 24 as well as for children in compulsory schooling who are taught by us before transfer to a municipality.

In close exchange with the teachers and carers of asylum seekers, you create clear structures, ensure reliable processes and mediate in difficult situations in everyday school life.

As a member of the school management team, you work with commitment and team orientation on cross-location planning and strategy.
You bring in the interests and challenges of the locations and act as a central interface between operational day-to-day business and overall management.

School development is central to you - you always act with a future-oriented view on quality, impact and the special needs of the learners.

Your profile

You must have a teaching diploma, completed further training in school leadership, several years of practical experience as a teacher as well as in a school management position.

Even in a dynamic environment with changing requirements, you act proactively and in a structured manner - always with regard to those involved. Working at various locations in and around Lucerne is an enrichment for you.
You are flexible in thinking, have a high level of problem-solving ability and can engage with joy and perseverance together with the other management personnel on sometimes complex issues.

You are skilled in administration as well as in oral and written communication, actively contribute to the management team with pleasure and gladly take on responsibility.

Working with learners from different cultures fulfils you - intercultural understanding and a high degree of solution orientation shape your way of thinking and acting, additionally you can inspire and set impulses in dialogue.

What you can look forward to

Our fields of impact are as diverse as we are.
Environment, infrastructure, finance, security, health, education and much more - together we shape the canton of Lucerne.

With us you will progress.
We offer attractive and exciting career and development opportunities - both in leadership and for subject experts.

We work flexibly and smartly.
Mobile-flexible working is highly valued with us. More than half of our employees work part-time and realise their professional goals in harmony with their private commitments.

You benefit with us.
Attractive further training offers, discount platforms for employees, mobile and internet offers, Next Bike, fleet discounts, and other benefits.

All our benefits at a glance

Your employer

Working for the Canton of Lucerne means shaping the future - that of the canton, its residents and not least your own. More than 7,000 employees in 200 different professions contribute daily to the excellent quality of life in our canton.

The Asylum School Programmes teach two different groups of learners: On the one hand, school-age children and adolescents with asylum status who are prepared for integration into municipal schools at various locations during the first phase of their stay in the canton of Lucerne. On the other hand, late-arriving adolescents and young adults aged between 16 and 24 who have entered as asylum seekers or from EU/EFTA and third countries.

The "a" in the job title stands for "all". The canton of Lucerne stands for diversity and variety.