Specialist User Services, Information Mediation and Spaces

About the job

Lausanne (and home office) | 80-80% |

What you can contribute

• Design, further develop and ensure the quality of services tailored to different user groups.
• Organise the operational management of user services, distribute tasks within the team and actively participate in reception, advising and supporting users as well as lending and interlibrary loan.
• Develop information mediation services, further engage existing user groups and attract new user groups.
• Design information, advisory and training services and clearly and appropriately inform users about services, information resources and their use.
• Design, manage and further develop publicly accessible library spaces, their equipment and work tools according to needs.
• Maintain partnerships in the area of user orientation and information mediation, promote the visibility of services and contribute to the conception and implementation of events.

What makes you unique

• Bachelor's degree in information sciences, scientific or cultural knowledge mediation, or law, as well as several years of professional experience in a library or a comparable cultural or academic institution.
• Experience in developing user-oriented services, in information mediation and in working with different user groups.
• Expertise in the design and layout of library spaces, their use and the design of reception processes.
• Ability to combine conceptual, professional and process-related perspectives and develop services tailored to needs.
• Strong communication and service orientation as well as an independent, team-oriented and flexible working style in a role-based organisation.
• Very good knowledge of two official languages as well as very good English skills (level C1 in each language).

In a nutshell

Actively shape the future of our institute and our library. With your ideas and expertise, you develop services and spaces that bring together different user groups and facilitate access to knowledge.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the Swiss success model and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at work We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SIR) is an independent federal administrative unit. We provide access to foreign and international law and thus make an important contribution to legal practice and science.
We support courts and administrative authorities, law firms, notaries and private individuals and conduct our own comparative law research. Our research topics are oriented towards legal questions that are of particular importance to Switzerland and deal with the legal challenges of complex societies or a globalised economy.
Our excellent specialised library, with its unique variety of foreign legal systems in Switzerland, is an invaluable resource. As part of the national library network Swisscovery, it is also widely and internationally connected.

Additional information

It is envisaged that this position will be enriched with personnel responsibility at a later date.

Questions about the position

Nadjma Yassari
Director

Questions about the application

Barbara Herentrey
Head of Human Resources
+41 58 46 98836