Basel
Security Team Leader 100% (m/f/d)
- 12 October 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Intermediate)
About the job
Your Mission
With your leadership and security expertise, you ensure that St. Jakob-Park, our teams, and the company are optimally protected during matches, events, and daily operations. You coordinate operational security deployments, maintain oversight even in challenging situations, and ensure smooth processes together with internal and external partners. As part of the security team, you actively contribute to making employees, players, and guests feel safe in the red and blue environment at all times.
Your main tasks include:
- Operational management at away games as well as protection of the first team/other teams and the company at all internal & external events
- Liaison between the Head of Security and the deployed security staff during events at St. Jakob-Park
- Regularly reviewing and adjusting the security concept in consultation with superiors
- Checking personnel resources and planning all games & events
- Assessing potential risks and threats
- Maintaining contact with security departments of other football clubs
- Various administrative tasks (including preparing coordination reports for the SFL and UEFA)
- Close cooperation and participation in meetings with fan work, authorities, SFL, and UEFA
- Coordination with police, fire brigade, and other institutions in case of incidents
Your profile:
- Completed vocational training
- Federal specialist certificate in the security sector advantageous or at least equivalent qualification
- Training as safety officer in fire protection / safety officer KOPAS desirable
- Several years of experience in operational and planning security
- Very good German and English skills, spoken and written; additional foreign languages advantageous
- Driving licence category B
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends
- Strong planning, communication, and conflict resolution skills
- High resilience, sense of responsibility, and confident appearance
- Negotiation skills and high security awareness
- Clean criminal record and debt enforcement register extract
Ready for your place in the red and blue family?
Then bring your security expertise and experience to where emotions, tradition, and passion meet. You can expect a responsible and varied role in an extraordinary working environment – from intense match days to the diverse everyday life behind the scenes. In close exchange with internal and external partners, you make an important contribution to safe and smooth processes. You can take responsibility, contribute your ideas, and rely on a team that sticks together even in demanding situations.
The position is available immediately or by arrangement.
If you feel addressed, we look forward to receiving your online application.