Stadt Luzern
Luzern
Headteacher* Primary School Lucerne (80-100%) - Start: 1 March 2027 or by arrangement
- 16 September 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Luzern
Job summary
Shape the future of Luzern's primary schools with your vision and leadership. Join a dedicated team driving educational change.
Tasks
- Oversee the high-quality primary school in Luzern city.
- Lead a six-member management team and participate in educational leadership.
- Manage strategic goals and a budget exceeding 125 million francs.
Skills
- Seeking an engaging leader with a relevant higher education degree.
- Experience in project and change management is essential.
- Strong communication skills for effective stakeholder engagement.
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About the job
Shape the primary school of Lucerne for tomorrow. Bring your visions, your leadership qualities, and your drive for innovation, and together with a committed team, influence the future of education. A key position with great scope for creativity awaits you in the exciting environment of education, politics, and administration.
Your Responsibilities
- You bear overall responsibility for a high-quality primary school in the city of Lucerne.
- You lead the six-member executive management of the primary school in the city of Lucerne and are simultaneously a member of the executive management of the Department of Education.
- You manage the headship of the primary school with nine directly reporting staff members.
- You are responsible for the strategic goals and the performance mandate of the primary school with a global budget of over 125 million Swiss francs.
- You represent the overall interests of the primary school and maintain active networking with offices of the city and canton of Lucerne as well as with other cities in Switzerland. You participate in various working groups and committees.
- You develop the primary school together with the leadership team in a forward-looking manner and provide impulses for innovative school and organisational development.
Your Profile
- You are a committed and convincing leader with a pedagogical university or university of applied sciences degree or an equivalent qualification.
- You are interested in educational policy issues and the shaping of public service in the education sector.
- You are familiar with internal administrative processes and have a good sense of political contexts and decision-making processes.
- You think ahead, develop visionary ideas, and want to actively shape the primary school.
- You have proven experience in project and change management and navigate confidently through change processes.
- You recognise the opportunities of digital transformation and help shape it in a forward-looking way.
- You communicate clearly, transparently, and appropriately for the audience.
