Career Choice Coordinator 30%
Stiftung für blinde und sehbehinderte Kinder und Jugendliche
Zollikofen
Key information
- Publication date:12 August 2025
- Workload:30%
- Place of work:Zollikofen
Job summary
Join the Zollikofen Foundation, dedicated to supporting blind and visually impaired youth. Enjoy a collaborative work environment focused on meaningful impact.
Tasks
- Coach young people in their career choice process and placement.
- Plan and conduct individual lessons on career selection.
- Collaborate with parents and industry professionals for student support.
Skills
- Degree in Social Work, Education, or related field required.
- Strong networking abilities and knowledge of vocational options.
- Effective communication and independent work skills.
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Portrait of the School/Institution
Together uniquely on the way
We are the Foundation for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth Zollikofen - a private, politically and confessionally neutral organization with a non-profit objective. Our task is to support and accompany people with special educational needs from birth to young adulthood. We offer additional services to parents, teachers of public regular schools and special primary schools, as well as to professionals. Our core competencies lie in the promotion and support of young people with visual impairments, blindness, multiple disabilities, or from the autism spectrum.
Career Choice Coordinator 30%
Blind School Zollikofen
3072 Zollikofen
3072 Zollikofen
Responsibilities
What you can achieve with us:
You coach young people in the career choice process and in finding an apprenticeship, a secondary school, or another follow-up solution. To do this, you plan individual lessons for career choice and carry them out. You contact companies for trial placements, internships, or apprenticeships and accompany the students, for example, during the placements and at job interviews. You involve the parents in the process and advise them. You form a team together with the coaches for learners and students of the Mobile Service. Additionally, you regularly exchange ideas with the IV offices and other internal and external professionals and prepare applications and reports. You take the lead in developing the concept for career choice and can significantly shape it.
If you wish for a higher employment level: This position can be well combined with the position as Bistro staff 15%, each Thursday, or with teaching activities by arrangement.
Requirements
What you bring:
With a qualification in Social Work, Primary Education, Clinical Special Education, or a comparable qualification and several years of professional experience in the social or educational field, you have acquired the necessary skills for this function. Ideally, you also bring a coaching qualification and very good knowledge of social insurance. You are a networker, have knowledge of professions and vocational training in the primary and secondary labor market, communicate appropriately, and organize your work independently and goal-oriented.
We Offer
What you can look forward to:
Our culture is characterized by appreciation and openness. In your role, you take on a lot of responsibility and receive the corresponding scope for design. Our employment conditions, in line with the cantonal framework conditions, are attractive. Learn more about it on our website.
Contact
Get in touch with us:
Do you have questions? Then Soraya Taibo, Head of Education, will be happy to hear from you at 031 910 25 26.
We look forward to your application via www.blindenschule.ch/jobs.
Additional Info
Start Date
01.11.2025
Application Deadline
31.10.2025
Reference
35581
