Parish Priest (80 percent) from 1 February 2027 or by arrangement
- 03 October 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Ardez
Job summary
Join our sunny Unterengadin community as a pastor! Enjoy a supportive work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Provide pastoral care through services and personal conversations.
- Engage with children and youth in religious education.
- Strengthen communities through diaconal work and support.
Skills
- Experience in pastoral roles; interest in Romansh language and culture.
- Open-minded, independent personality with pastoral presence.
- Enjoy working with youth and building community connections.
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About the job
Would you like to live and work where it is almost always sunny, but never too warm?
Our esteemed parish priest is starting a new challenge after 10 years of service in our church community. Therefore, we are looking for a parish priest (80 percent) from 1 February 2027 or by arrangement.
Our church community is located in the sunny Lower Engadine and extends over the Romansh-speaking municipalities of Ardez, Ftan and Guarda.
We are looking for a parish priest who will carefully and committedly accompany our church community for another stage of the journey. Social changes also reach our inner alpine valley and influence our community. As a church community, we want to be there for the people and focus on the essential areas of activity of the national church work.
For us, these are pastoral care in services and conversations, the pastoral design of ceremonies, the careful support of our children and young people in religious and confirmation classes, and the diaconate through which we strengthen the communities.
We wish for a person
- interested in the Romansh language and culture
- who has an open-hearted, independent personality and who joyfully takes on the diverse tasks in our church community
- with pastoral openness and presence
- who enjoys working with confirmands
- who likes to maintain contact with the population
- who values lived tradition and culture and carefully shapes new things
We offer:
- Three beautiful churches and two chapels
- An independent field of work with opportunities for design and support from the board
- A lovely apartment in the parish house of the municipality of Ardez including garage and large garden
- A parish office secretariat
- Contemporary employment conditions of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Graubünden
- Support in learning the Romansh language
- Lots of sunshine, little fog and white slopes and blue skies in winter
Do you feel addressed and already speak Romansh or are willing to learn this language? Then get in touch! We look forward to your application! Please send it with the usual documents by 30.11.2026 to:
Corporaziun evangelica Ardez-Ftan-Guarda
Attn: Not Armon Willy
Arfusch 166
7546 Ardez
secretariat.pravenda@bluewin.ch
Further information is gladly provided by the church community president Not Armon Willy (079 682 44 58) or our parish priest, Marianne Strub (081 862 23 61).
