Program Staff HEKS-Visite 60%
Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:01 October 2025
- Workload:60%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1500 staff at 24 locations in Switzerland and globally.
Tasks
- Support long-term unemployed individuals through part-time jobs.
- Conduct initial interviews and lead courses for new participants.
- Manage participant placements and maintain key relationships.
Skills
- Degree in Social Work and experience with target groups preferred.
- Strong communication and intercultural skills are essential.
- Organized, solution-oriented, and ICT proficient.
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HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural livelihoods are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Program Staff HEKS-Visite 60%
The HEKS-Visite program provides long-term unemployed people with regular part-time work within the framework of social assistance. The work assignments mainly take place in non-profit organizations in the cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen. Meaningful and regular activity helps to create a weekly structure and promotes social integration. The participants' voluntary engagement is not paid, but supported by social assistance with a small financial incentive.
Would you like to commit yourself to a meaningful task and make an impact together with a motivated team?
Then we look forward to welcoming you as a team-oriented, responsible, and versatile personality from February 1, 2026 or by arrangement – in the role of:
- Conducting initial interviews
- Leading courses for new participants
- Acquisition and placement of assignments
- Supporting participants during their assignments
- Organizing group events for program participants
- Collaboration and relationship management with referring agencies
- Maintaining contact with assignment locations
- Administrative tasks
- Exchange and collaboration within the team
- Completed degree in Social Work (FH)
- Preferably professional experience with the target group
- Good communication skills and intercultural competencies
- Independent and structured way of working
- Openness to agile working methods and role-based collaboration
- Willingness to develop further in an agile organization
- Solution orientation and flexibility
- ICT affinity, good knowledge of Office programs, experience with databases
- An agile and learning organization with role-based collaboration where you can specifically contribute your strengths and take on responsibility
- Versatile activity with high personal responsibility and opportunities for co-design
- Committed and competent team
- Modern employment conditions
- Regular team events and targeted training opportunities
- Central workplace location in Zurich
Then we look forward to receiving your application by October 19, 2025, via our online application tool .
For further information, Lucia Schönenberger is available at 044 360 89 65 or lucia.schoenenberger@heks.ch.
More information about HEKS-Visite can be found at www.visite.heks.ch.
