Head of Projects and Application Management 80–100 %

About the job

The IT department is the central competence and service centre for IT for the cantonal administration, the courts, the municipalities and other customers from the public-law sector. It is responsible for the operation and further development of the ICT infrastructure in the areas of PC/laptop workstations, network, servers, storage, security, unified communication, office automation, specialist and e-government applications.

We are looking for a

Head of Projects and Application Management 80–100 %

from 1 September 2026 or by arrangement, based in Glarus.

Tasks

• Professional and personnel management as well as further development of the specialist unit
• Active management of the service and project portfolio of digitalisation and IT services
• Development of new IT services and optimisation of business processes
• Consulting internal and external customers
• Co-responsibility for the implementation of the digitalisation concept in cooperation with the Digital Administration unit, the departments and the municipalities
• Expansion of the integrated authority portal of the canton and municipalities for citizens
• Ensuring the productive operation of the authority portal and specialist applications
• Participation in cross-cantonal committees and representation of the interests of the canton of Glarus

Requirements

• Completed higher education, ideally in business informatics or computer science, and many years of experience in project or application management
• Sound project management knowledge, preferably Hermes
• Conceptual and analytical skills as well as networked thinking
• Organisational and planning skills as well as implementation strength
• Excellent German skills, spoken and written
• Experience in leading interdisciplinary teams
• Integrative and implementation-strong leadership personality with high social competence, customer and service orientation as well as presence skills
• Enjoyment of working in a team and with different customer groups

Your contact

For further information, please contact Ruedi Becker, Head of IT Department, Tel. 055 646 65 50. More about us at www.gl.ch/informatik.

Have we aroused your interest? We look forward to your online application!

Please note that only online applications will be considered.

We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies.