Head of Security Department

About the job

Uster, the third largest city in the canton of Zurich, with around 38,000 inhabitants, is a dynamically growing city with a central function.

The Security Department makes a significant contribution to safety and a high quality of life in Uster. It combines the city police, civil protection with civil defence and base fire brigade, public services as well as the legal and enforcement area.

The department is undergoing an important development process. The focus is on strengthening leadership structures, promoting cross-departmental collaboration, and targeted further development of workflows and processes.

For the leadership of the department and the active shaping of this change process, we are looking for a personality as of 1 May 2027 or by agreement as

Head of Security Department 80 - 100%

Your main tasks

• Personnel, organisational, professional and financial management of the Security Department with around 90 employees as well as numerous committed members of the militia organisations in fire brigade, civil defence and sea rescue
• Strategic further development of the department as well as promotion of a trusting, performance-oriented and appreciative leadership culture
• Co-shaping the overall city development as a member of the executive management and taking on cross-departmental responsibility
• Fulfilling legal and political mandates as well as further developing services and processes
• Advising the city council on security-related issues and cooperating with internal and external stakeholders
• Initiating and accompanying projects and change processes
• Taking on a central role in the municipal leadership body (GFO) and co-shaping the city’s crisis preparedness

Your profile

• A higher professional or university education as well as recognised further training in management and leadership
• Comprehensive leadership experience, ideally in the public sector, as well as the ability to lead employees and organisational units in a values-oriented and goal-directed manner
• Strong strategic and conceptual skills as well as a good understanding of political and internal administrative contexts
• An understanding of how to further develop people, organisations and security structures and to win different stakeholders for common solutions
• Decisiveness and communication skills, negotiation skills and the ability to constructively bring together different interests
• Resilience, assertiveness and a confident approach in crisis situations
• You are a winning, integrous and reflective personality with high social competence and natural authority

Your contact person

If you have any questions, our city clerk looks forward to hearing from you.

Pascal Sidler

044 944 73 01