Pastoral Area / Parish Leader

About the job

The Pastoral Area Kriens is lively, diverse, and searching for new paths! With us, you will find the freedom to rethink church, nurture encounters, and live faith together.

Starting summer 2026, we offer an 80 - 100% position as Pastoral Area / Parish Leader

Your role:

• With heart, vision, and team spirit, you lead our pastoral area in a participatory and agile leadership style. In dialogue with committed people, you continuously develop our pastoral work, promote personal responsibility and collaboration, and set impulses for an open, lively, and future-oriented church.

Your tasks:

• Leadership of the pastoral area with a strategic, spiritual, and human perspective
• Further development of a church that stands in the midst of life
• Coordination and qualitative responsibility of pastoral offerings
• Promotion of cooperation between full-time and volunteer staff to strengthen church life
• General pastoral care including the organization of various services, celebrations, and funerals in the pastoral area
• You contribute to regional networking and represent our concerns externally – committed and with a clear profile.

This is how you inspire us:

• Completed theology studies and professional induction in the Diocese of Basel or equivalent training
• Experience in leadership, organization, and communication
• Joy in collaboration and participatory leadership
• Courage to take new paths
• Sensitivity for people and the church of today

What you will find with us:

• Open, committed team with heart, know-how & humor
• Lots of creative freedom and support from the church community
• Progressive framework conditions
• Lively community at the foot of Pilatus
• Space for your ideas and the future of the church
• Modern and inspiring working environment
• Support through leadership assistance

For further information, please contact: Bernhard Waldmüller, Pastoral Area Leader, T 041 329 10 09 / b.waldmueller@kath-kriens.ch and Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch

Are you ready for this new challenge?

We look forward to receiving your digital application documents by December 2, 2025. Please send them by email to the Personnel Department of the Diocese of Basel personalamt@bistum-basel.ch and a copy to Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch.

More info at kath-kriens.ch

Catholic Church Community Kriens, Alpenstrasse 20, 6010 Kriens