Specialist in Maintenance Contributions, Debt Collection and Legal Assistance

About the job

60–100 %

from 1 June 2027 or by arrangement

Your tasks: versatile, demanding, advisory

• Independent and comprehensive handling of cases concerning advance maintenance payments and maintenance debt collection
• Advising maintenance recipients and payers on various issues
• Clarifications and correspondence with municipalities, legal representatives, authorities and other involved parties
• Management and supervision of maintenance accounting
• Initiation and support of debt collection measures as well as handling complex cases
• Participation in the further development of procedures and processes in the maintenance sector

Your background: experienced, IT-savvy and numerically inclined

• Completion of a commercial apprenticeship
• Professional experience in demanding casework, ideally from the areas of advance maintenance payments, debt collection, debt enforcement and bankruptcy
• Further training in the maintenance sector or willingness to undertake it
• Knowledge of debt enforcement, debt collection and family law
• Numerical and accounting flair as well as high IT affinity; KLIBNet knowledge is an advantage
• Independent personality with social understanding, confident demeanour and assertiveness
• Quick comprehension and ability to think in a networked way
• You have command of the German language in spoken and written form; additional language skills (English/French) are an advantage

For questions about the position

Claudine Otz
Head of Maintenance Department
T 061 552 56 66

For questions about the application process

Raffaela Bernold
HR Consultant
T 061 552 48 96

Cantonal Social Office

The Cantonal Social Office (KSA) monitors and reviews the work of the municipalities regarding the proper execution of social assistance, among other things in the form of audits. It advises, trains and supports the 86 Basel-Landschaft municipalities in the implementation of social assistance. Furthermore, the Cantonal Social Office is the cantonal authority for jurisdictional questions and medical emergencies. In the appeals procedure, the Cantonal Social Office handles complaints against decisions of municipal social assistance authorities. In the asylum and refugee sector, it cooperates with the federal government and assigns persons allocated by the federal government to the municipalities. It also supports the municipalities in promoting the integration of persons from the asylum and refugee sector. Furthermore, the Cantonal Social Office advances child maintenance contributions and supports persons in separation cases in enforcing court-ordered maintenance payments. The Cantonal Social Office assumes cantonal tasks regarding rent contributions and care home approvals. It is committed to poverty prevention and alleviation, addresses overarching issues of poverty policy as well as political initiatives, and formulates social policy strategies and concepts.