Student Project Leader Department Tutors (EN) (m/f/d)

St. Gallen

Key information

Publication date:02 September 2025
Workload:100%
Place of work:St. Gallen

Job summary

Join the StartWeek team at the University of St.Gallen! This dynamic group collaborates on a significant project for student orientation.

Tasks

Recruit around 190 tutors from advanced students for the program.
Train English-speaking tutors during two StartWeek seminars.
Develop and update course materials for the program.

Skills

Must be a student at the University of St.Gallen, at least in the 3rd semester.
Excellent organizational and coordination skills are required.
Proficient in Microsoft Office and fluent in German and English.

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The StartWeek is part of the Vice-Rectorate for Studies & Teaching. The nine-member team consists of permanent employees and students of the HSG. In this constellation, the team works together over several years, thus ensuring experience and knowledge for the major project as well as for the StartWeek course. The 20-30% working time is to be understood as annual working time. There are intensive working months (August-September) and less intensive phases (May-July).

We offer:
Co-design of the course and the annual major event StartWeek
Responsible and versatile tasks
Collaboration in a dynamic and motivated team
Attractive working environment on campus

Interested? We look forward to receiving your complete application documents by October 17, 2025!

Your tasks

Recruitment of approx. 190 tutors (students in higher semesters)
Training of the English-speaking tutors within the framework of two StartWeek seminars
Content-related and organizational support and leadership of the English-speaking tutors
Development and updating of course materials
Design and maintenance of the Canvas course rooms

Your profile

Organizational and coordination talent
Reliable, structured, efficient and independent way of working
Confident and competent appearance
Exceptionally high teamwork skills and resilience
Very good Microsoft Office skills
Very good written and oral expression in German (level C2) and English (level C2)
Student at the University of St.Gallen (at least in the 3rd semester)
Experienced StartWeek as a newcomer
Ideally already involved in StartWeek as a tutor

"A place that creates knowledge" - As one of the leading business universities in Europe, the University of St.Gallen (HSG) is committed to educating over 10,000 students and offers an attractive and innovative environment in research, teaching, continuing education, and administration to around 3,500 employees as one of the largest employers in the region."