Head of the UB Staff
myScience
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:12 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join the University of Bern as Leiter*in des UB-Stabs! Great opportunity for growth.
Tasks
- Provide leadership support for the direction and management team.
- Coordinate administrative tasks across all UB locations effectively.
- Oversee measures and programs in personnel development.
Skills
- Master's degree with business education desired; library qualification preferred.
- Strong team and project management experience essential.
- Excellent communication skills in German and English required.
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Head of the UB Staff
Workplace Bern , Bern region , SwitzerlandCategoryPositionPublished11 September 2025Head of the UB Staff
90 - 100 %
University Library Bern
01.01.2026 or by arrangement
University Library Bern (UB)
- We provide information resources for research, teaching, and study - electronically or on paper
- We assist with simple as well as complex (subject) searches and impart information literacy
- We offer support and infrastructure for scientific publications, research, and project data
- We collect and digitize Bernese materials
- And we are here for everyone as a university and cantonal library
- Leadership support for the directorate and management
- Coordination of administrative activities at all UB locations
- Responsible for measures and programs in personnel development
- Responsible for internal training
- Tasks in knowledge management
Requirements
- University degree at master’s level with business administration further education or comparable educational background
- Librarian training or further education at university level desired
- Several years of administrative professional experience, preferably in scientific library services
- Solid experience in leading teams and projects
- Very good application knowledge of MS Office and high digital affinity
- Native German speaker and good English skills
- High sense of responsibility and strong service orientation
- Independent, structured, and solution-oriented working style
- Very good communication skills
We offer
an interesting and versatile position in a central role at the UB Bern. If you enjoy a wide variety of tasks and like to take responsibility, you are in the right place here. Good training opportunities as well as progressive employment conditions and social benefits according to cantonal guidelines are a matter of course for us.
Application and contact
For professional inquiries about the position, please contact Dr. Sonia Abun-Nasr, Director UB Bern, at sonia.abun-nasr@unibe.ch
Please send your application with the usual documents
electronically
by
3 October 2025
to direktionssekretariat.ub@unibe.ch
In your application, please refer to myScience.ch and referenceJobID68269.
