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Youth Worker 60%
- 04 February 2026
- 60%
- Permanent position
- Männedorf
Job summary
Join us as a Youth Worker (60%) at our vibrant youth center. Engage, collaborate, and make a difference!
Tasks
- Lead the renovated youth center with a dynamic team.
- Provide practical training for our trainee in community animation.
- Develop socio-cultural projects and foster relationships with youth.
Skills
- Completed training in social work or socio-cultural animation.
- Strong communication skills and empathy for youth.
- IT proficiency and ability to manage administrative tasks.
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About the job
You enjoy diverse and exciting encounters, want to contribute, help shape, and take responsibility? Are you also a communicative, open doer and passionately committed to the needs of children and young people?
Youth Worker 60%
Perfect! We are looking for an immediate or agreed start for a
What are your tasks:
- Managing the renovated youth center in a new team of three (and a civilian service worker)
- Practical training of our trainee employee (community animation)
- Sociocultural offers and projects in the youth center and in public spaces
- Relationship work with children and young people
- Networking with the school / SSA and locally relevant actors
- Public relations and administration
What you bring with you:
- Completed training in Sociocultural Animation or Social Work (FH)
Community animation (HF) or related fields - Practical experience in open child and youth work
- Further training in practical instruction (PAL), or willingness to complete it
- Teamwork, initiative, creativity, flexibility, and empathy
- Appreciative communication style at eye level and in different roles
- Willingness to work irregular hours (evenings and weekends)
- Enjoyment of administrative and planning tasks
- IT affinity (Office and Social Media) and quick comprehension
What we offer you:
- Responsible, versatile, and independent activity with scope for design
- An appreciative leadership
- Modern employment conditions and generous support for
further training - Great workplace in the youth center directly on the lakeshore and very close to the train station
Sounds like your next chapter? Then click on "Apply online now" and send us your complete application today. For further information, your future supervisor Francisco Carballo, Head of Youth and Family Department (044 921 66 35), will be happy to assist you. We look forward to getting to know you!
