Head of Administration & Specialist Application Disability Assistance
- 30 September 2026
- 60 – 70%
- Permanent position
- German (Intermediate)
About the job
60%-80%
Department of Economy, Social Affairs and Environment, Office for Social Contributions
immediate start
Tasks
Head of Administration: You lead the administration sub-team in terms of personnel, expertise and organisation. You set priorities, manage resources and ensure reliable work organisation. You also contribute personally in demanding special cases.
Develop services and processes further: Together with your team, you ensure efficient and service-oriented administrative services. You further develop processes and quality standards, thereby creating reliable and contemporary working foundations.
Shape the specialist application inclusio: You are responsible for inclusio from the professional perspective of disability assistance. You gather requirements, prioritise them and represent the department's needs to the involved parties. You manage releases, tests and implementations for the department.
Advance digitalisation and projects: You drive the digitalisation and automation of our processes forward. In doing so, you combine professional, organisational and technical requirements and work closely with project management, organisational development and IT.
Leadership as dialogue: You understand leadership as a dialogue: appreciative, clear and on equal footing. You create orientation and trust, promote personal responsibility and enable employees to contribute their strengths and develop good solutions together.
Profile
Experience: You bring several years of experience in demanding administrative tasks and processes - ideally combined with leadership responsibility, process development, digitalisation or specialist applications.
Personality: You enjoy leading, communicate clearly and appreciatively and bring together different perspectives. You think in networks, make responsible decisions and combine a desire to shape with a good sense for people and collaboration.
Education: You have a commercial, business administration or administration-related education and leadership training or comparable qualification. Further training in process, project management or digitalisation is an advantage.
Language: You can express yourself precisely and without errors both orally and in writing; additional language skills are an advantage.
Insight into our work
The Office for Social Contributions is responsible for the provision of various social benefits in the canton of Basel-Stadt and belongs to the Department of Economy, Social Affairs and Environment. It examines claims for alimony assistance, disability assistance, supplementary benefits, premium reductions, rent contributions and other needs-based social benefits.
thanks to professional care management and one hundred percent continued salary payment in case of illness or accident throughout the entire employment relationship.
We appreciate and utilise the diversity of our employees and ensure an equal opportunity working environment.
We support our employees as best as possible with flexible working hours, part-time work and home office up to annual and trust-based working hours as well as job sharing options.
Our centrally located sites are easily accessible on foot, by bike and by public transport.
Contact
Questions about the position
Christoph Fenner
Department Head
Tel. +41 61 267 84 78
Questions about the application
Cédric Sidler
HR Consultant
Tel. +41 61 267 07 33
Versatile.
Working for Basel-Stadt.
There is one thing all our more than 11,000 employees have in common: They engage at the pulse of the city by supporting, enabling, guiding, shaping and protecting. In doing so, they contribute every day with their commitment to making Basel-Stadt a place worth living and loving. As diverse as our tasks are our employees and their opportunities. Welcome to the team of the canton of Basel-Stadt!
