Pastoral Area / Community Leader
Röm.-kath. Landeskirche des Kantons Luzern
Kriens
Key information
- Publication date:20 November 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Kriens
The Pastoral Area Kriens is lively, diverse, and searching for new paths! With us, you will find the freedom to rethink church, nurture encounters, and live faith together.
Starting summer 2026, we offer an 80-100% position as
Your role:
With heart, vision, and team spirit, you lead our pastoral area in a participatory and agile leadership style. In dialogue with committed people, you continuously develop our pastoral work, promote personal responsibility and collaboration, and set impulses for an open, lively, and future-oriented church.
Your tasks:
– Leading the pastoral area with a strategic, spiritual, and human perspective
– Further developing a church that stands in the midst of life
– Coordinating and taking qualitative responsibility for pastoral offerings
– Promoting collaboration between full-time and volunteer staff to strengthen church life
– General pastoral care including organizing various services, celebrations, and funerals in the pastoral area
– You engage in regional networking and represent our concerns externally – committed and with a clear profile.
This is how you inspire us:
– Completed theology studies and professional introduction in the Diocese of Basel or equivalent training
– Experience in leadership, organization, and communication
– Joy in collaboration and participatory leadership
– Courage to take new paths
– Sensitivity for people and the church of today
What you will find with us:
– Open, committed team with heart, know-how & humor
– Plenty of creative freedom and support from the church community
– Progressive framework conditions
– Lively community at the foot of Pilatus
– Space for your ideas and the future of the church
– Modern and inspiring work environment
– Support from leadership assistance
For further information, please contact: Bernhard Waldmüller, Pastoral Area Leader, T 041 329 10 09 / b.waldmueller@kath-kriens.ch and Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch
Are you ready for this new challenge?
We look forward to receiving your digital application documents. Please send them by email to the Personnel Department of the Diocese of Basel at personalamt@bistum-basel.ch and a copy to Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch.
More information at
kath-kriens.ch
A church moving into the future
Catholic Church Community Kriens, Alpenstrasse 20, 6010 Kriens
Starting summer 2026, we offer an 80-100% position as
Your role:
With heart, vision, and team spirit, you lead our pastoral area in a participatory and agile leadership style. In dialogue with committed people, you continuously develop our pastoral work, promote personal responsibility and collaboration, and set impulses for an open, lively, and future-oriented church.
Your tasks:
– Leading the pastoral area with a strategic, spiritual, and human perspective
– Further developing a church that stands in the midst of life
– Coordinating and taking qualitative responsibility for pastoral offerings
– Promoting collaboration between full-time and volunteer staff to strengthen church life
– General pastoral care including organizing various services, celebrations, and funerals in the pastoral area
– You engage in regional networking and represent our concerns externally – committed and with a clear profile.
This is how you inspire us:
– Completed theology studies and professional introduction in the Diocese of Basel or equivalent training
– Experience in leadership, organization, and communication
– Joy in collaboration and participatory leadership
– Courage to take new paths
– Sensitivity for people and the church of today
What you will find with us:
– Open, committed team with heart, know-how & humor
– Plenty of creative freedom and support from the church community
– Progressive framework conditions
– Lively community at the foot of Pilatus
– Space for your ideas and the future of the church
– Modern and inspiring work environment
– Support from leadership assistance
For further information, please contact: Bernhard Waldmüller, Pastoral Area Leader, T 041 329 10 09 / b.waldmueller@kath-kriens.ch and Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch
Are you ready for this new challenge?
We look forward to receiving your digital application documents. Please send them by email to the Personnel Department of the Diocese of Basel at personalamt@bistum-basel.ch and a copy to Astrid Dittrich, Church Administrator, a.dittrich@kath-kriens.ch.
More information at
kath-kriens.ch
A church moving into the future
Catholic Church Community Kriens, Alpenstrasse 20, 6010 Kriens
