Funeral Escort Rosenberg Cemetery in a Small Part-Time Position, Deployment by Arrangement
Stadt Winterthur
Winterthur
Key information
- Publication date:23 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Winterthur
Job summary
Stadtgrün Winterthur maintains green spaces, forests, and cemeteries. Join a supportive team that values your contributions and offers meaningful work.
Tasks
- Assist with burials and memorial services at Rosenberg Cemetery.
- Coordinate processes with families and officiants for ceremonies.
- Welcome mourners and assist during ceremonies and logistics.
Skills
- Empathy, discretion, and respect for grieving individuals required.
- Reliability, punctuality, and strong organizational skills needed.
- Openness to diverse beliefs and traditions is essential.
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City Green Winterthur
City Green Winterthur plans, maintains, and manages the green and open spaces, the forest, the Bruderhaus wildlife park, the five cemeteries, as well as the crematorium of the garden city Winterthur. Our services are central to the quality of the garden city Winterthur as a residential and business location. The Rosenberg Cemetery is a place of peace, farewell, and remembrance.Your Tasks
- Accompanying and supporting burials and funeral services at Rosenberg Cemetery
- Preparation and coordination of procedures in cooperation with relatives, pastors, and speakers. Contact person on site for relatives, pastors, and speakers, as well as ensuring alerting and emergency organization in case of incidents
- Reception and guidance of the mourning parties at Rosenberg Cemetery, to the grave, and assisting with the ceremony, coffin or urn lowering, and continuation to the chapel or cemetery exit
- Sexton service in the cemetery chapel, operation of the sound system, and other tasks
- Deployments by arrangement based on the burial schedule, with monthly deployment planning and substitution among the funeral escorts
Your Profile
- Empathy, discretion, and respectful interaction with mourners
- High reliability and sense of responsibility, punctuality, and organizational skills
- Openness and respect towards different faith communities and their traditions and rituals
- High willingness to assist and provide services to relatives, acts calmly and composedly in unexpected situations
What We Offer
- A meaningful activity at a special place
- Careful introduction to your tasks
- An engaged and appreciative environment
- Coverage of work clothing costs
- Flexible deployment options by arrangement
