Clerk: Student Admissions 100%

Clerk: Student Admissions 100%

You like to keep several balls in the air at the same time and want to demonstrate your quality awareness in the dynamic university environment – we look forward to your application!

Department: School of Management and Law

Start of work: Immediately or by arrangement

• Ensuring the admission process with a focus on English-language degree programs: creating and publishing online application forms, processing applications, requesting and checking required documents, creating student statistics and performing data checks
• Participation in information events (attendance at 3-4 events per year until approx. 9 p.m.)
• Coordination and recording of module exemptions: reviewing applications, creating transfer agreements, and providing information to students and lecturers
• Administration of exam absence management: checking medical certificates, maintaining control lists, and registering students for make-up exams
• Bachelor's and master's theses: managing appointments, coordinating and handling deadline extensions, requesting grades, and coordinating data entry
• Taking over deputizing duties within the team
• Writing statements when setting up new degree programs or curricular adjustments
• Commercial training or equivalent basic and further education
• Several years of professional experience in demanding clerical work, ideally in the university environment
• Confident German and good English skills (spoken and written)
• Service-oriented and communicative personality
• You can optimally organize and prioritize your area of responsibility and quickly understand complex contexts
• You do not lose track even with parallel tasks
• You are resilient and remain calm and composed even in hectic situations

The ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, with over 14,000 students and over 11,000 continuing education participants as well as around 3,700 employees, is one of the largest multi-disciplinary universities of applied sciences in Switzerland.

The ZHAW School of Management and Law (SML), with around 9,500 students, is one of the largest business schools in Switzerland. It is the only university of applied sciences in the country represented in renowned rankings of the business newspaper "Financial Times" and accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA – labels for high quality standards in teaching, research, and continuing education. The internationally recognized bachelor's and master's degree programs, cooperative PhD programs, and numerous continuing education offerings are scientifically based, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented. The SML maintains numerous cooperations with over 190 selected partner universities worldwide.

The Operations and Services Department (AOS) ensures a powerful basic structure and efficient processes for the successful operation of the ZHAW School of Management and Law. We are responsible for the administration, evaluation, further development, and quality of teaching and continuing education. We also provide support in the functional areas of didactics, translation/editing, communication skills, IT, process and system management, and facility management. The development and implementation of modules in the areas of languages and communication in business and law as well as business administration and didactics also belong to our tasks.

ZHAW is committed to gender-mixed and diverse teams to promote equality, diversity, and innovation. To increase the proportion of women in leadership positions, applications from women are particularly welcome.

We offer university-appropriate working and employment conditions and actively promote the personnel development of our employees and managers. A detailed description of the benefits can be found on the "Working at ZHAW" website. Here are the main points: