Youth Worker / 70% - 80%

About the job

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Youth Worker / 70% - 80%

The Roman Catholic parish of Thun is looking for the two parishes St. Marien and St. Martin with immediate effect or by arrangement for a

Youth Worker / 70% - 80%

The parish counts around 11,000 members in the area of 39 residential municipalities in the Bern Oberland pastoral area. Your future field of activity is very diverse and includes many facets

We are looking for a person

• who enjoys working with young people and is open to collaboration in the pastoral area
• with willingness for situational, flexible working hours / assignments
• who appreciates the diversity of different people
• who is dynamic, can handle change well and works in a goal-oriented manner.
• who is willing to actively shape transformation processes and for cross-departmental collaboration (including with catechesis, social diaconia and ecumenism)
• who lives an appreciative and supportive basic attitude
• who does not shy away from difficulties but likes to tackle them proactively
• who is independent, open, sociable, reliable and authentic
• who brings organisational talent or is willing to acquire it
• who cultivates and lives the team and communication culture
• who has good IT user skills
• who has the willingness to learn to manage local communication tools such as M&M App, Canva, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Your tasks

• Open church youth work: among other things, actively supervise the youth centre with young people and young adults and network with the community and in ecumenism
• Actively initiate and implement various projects
• Plan and carry out trips with young adults
• Network with missions in other languages
• Support and co-manage diaconal projects

You bring with you

• Training in socio-cultural animation, social pedagogy, religious education (RPI) or equivalent training

We offer

• An open, dynamic, committed, diverse team
• Diversity of cultures
• Good infrastructure and sufficient resources to implement projects
• Opportunity for personal development
• Large platform for networking

Have we caught your interest?

We look forward to receiving your complete application. Please send the documents by 27.11.2026 in electronic form to the administration

If you have any questions, please contact:

• Nicole Macchia, Community Leader, Telephone 076 337 77 43

• Thomas Studer, Parish Council Personnel, Telephone 079 707 68 44