HR Specialist at 80% or 32 hours per week

About the job

Located in the heart of the western Lausanne area, the Municipality of Chavannes-près-Renens, which has nearly 12,500 inhabitants, is experiencing dynamic development and a constant evolution of its population.

The Human Resources Department plays an essential role in supporting employees, assisting line managers, and developing HR practices adapted to the challenges of a public administration in constant evolution.

To strengthen its team and continue developing its services, the Municipality of Chavannes-près-Renens is advertising the position of:

HR Specialist at 80% or 32 hours per week

In this role, you will notably be responsible for:

• Managing recruitment processes, from analysing applications to conducting selection interviews, in collaboration with line managers, and ensuring follow-up of appointments through to integration;
• Advising and supporting municipal staff on routine HR matters, according to current labour law and social insurance provisions;
• Ensuring the monitoring and development of digital HR tools, notably time management systems and the HRIS, collaborating on their optimisation and process improvement;
• Contributing to the development of HR indicators, statistics, and dashboards to support activity management and decision-making;
• Participating in the drafting of institutional documents, reports, letters, and communications intended for the Municipal Council, ensuring their editorial quality and coherence;
• Actively contributing to HR and interdepartmental projects by proposing improvements to processes, procedures, and work tools, within a framework of modernisation and continuous improvement;
• Ensuring, in collaboration with the HR Manager, the management and follow-up of HR administrative files, including specifications, employment contracts, certificates and attestations, as well as evaluation and staff monitoring tools.

Your profile:

With excellent interpersonal skills, you know how to establish a climate of trust, support interlocutors with varied profiles, and approach sensitive situations with tact, discernment, and confidentiality. Your analytical mind, autonomy, and ability to manage several files simultaneously allow you to work comfortably in a dynamic environment while maintaining a high level of rigour and quality. As guarantor of decisions made by the Municipal Council, the HR Department ensures their proper application and monitors their implementation within the institutional and regulatory framework.

You identify with the following qualities:

• Federal diploma as a human resources specialist or additional training in the HR field;
• Several years of confirmed professional experience in a versatile HR role, ideally acquired within a public administration or a parapublic organisation;
• Proven experience in managing recruitment processes and supporting line managers;
• Good knowledge of labour law, social insurance, and personnel management practices;
• Strong professional conscience, showing commitment and proactivity in following up ongoing files while ensuring the smooth progress and advancement of projects;
• Excellent writing and spelling skills in French, combined with analytical and synthesis abilities;
• Very good command of common IT tools; knowledge of Abacus HR and Mobatime is an asset;
• Strong sense of confidentiality, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive situations professionally;
• Team spirit, interpersonal ease, listening skills, and ability to collaborate with diverse interlocutors.

We offer you:

• A versatile and stimulating HR role, offering a transversal view of the activities of a municipal administration;
• The opportunity to play a concrete role in supporting staff and developing HR practices;
• Autonomy in carrying out your missions and the possibility to actively contribute to projects and the evolution of the Department;
• A dynamic professional environment that fosters collaboration, skills sharing, and initiatives.

Start date: January 2027

Application deadline: 1 December 2026

Salary scale: 7 of the municipal salary scale

For further information, you may contact Mr Vincent Angehrn, Head of the Human Resources Department, at 021/633.33.99.

Please note that only applications submitted online via the jobup.ch website and complete dossiers (cover letter, CV, work certificates and diplomas) will be processed.