Job Coach HEKS Steps, 60-80 %
Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:19 December 2025
- Workload:60 – 80%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1,500 staff across 35 countries. Join a diverse team dedicated to social transformation.
Tasks
- Support refugees in their journey towards employment integration.
- Facilitate job placements and training for participants.
- Maintain relationships with employers and external partners.
Skills
- Degree in social or educational field; coaching experience preferred.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills are essential.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks.
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HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff members. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates with 290 programs and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached around 16 million people with its work.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Job Coach HEKS Steps, 60-80 %
Providing orientation - Creating perspectives – Empowering
"HEKS Steps" of the Zurich/Schaffhausen office supports people with a refugee background on their path to employment. Participants are promoted in small steps in a supportive environment and with professional guidance.
To strengthen our team, we are looking for an agile personality from February 1, 2026 or by arrangement, limited to one year (with the option of continued employment).
These are your main tasks:
- Evaluate the needs and competencies of refugees and accompany them in the professional integration process
- Acquisition and placement of external work assignments and support of participants
- Job coaching (creation of work integration plan, support in (apprenticeship) job search, development of application strategy, interview training)
- Collaboration and relationship management with clients, external counseling centers, and internal companies
- Case-related administration and reporting
- Maintaining contact & advising employers in the primary labor market
- Active participation in internal/external working groups on labor integration
- Participation & ensuring quality standards (IN-Qualis)
Ideally, you bring the following:
- Education in social or pedagogical field at tertiary level
- Qualified training or further education in coaching / counseling at least at CAS level or corporate mentoring with federal certificate
- Experience with the target group and intercultural competence
- Preferably experience in the field of professional integration
- Good networking and knowledge of the labor market including industry, professions & trends, experience in working with different stakeholders desired
- Communication and conversational skills / negotiation skills
- Enthusiasm for labor integration and working with migrants
- Independent as well as structured and efficient working style
- Willingness to travel to deployment companies and between the Zurich & Winterthur locations
- Solution-oriented, flexible, and resilient
- IT affinity, good user knowledge of Office programs, flair for e-collaboration tools
You can expect from us:
- An agile and learning organization with lived knowledge transfer (holacracy)
- Versatile and demanding activity with high personal responsibility and co-determination
- Committed and competent colleagues
- Modern employment conditions
Would you like to join the HEKS team?
We look forward to receiving your application by January 15, 2026 via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
For further information, Silke Stubbe, Program Manager HEKS Steps, is available at phone +41 44 360 89 77 or email silke.stubbe@heks.ch.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
We look forward to receiving your application by January 15, 2026 via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
For further information, Silke Stubbe, Program Manager HEKS Steps, is available at phone +41 44 360 89 77 or email silke.stubbe@heks.ch.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
