Unit Manager M/F, 80-100%, Permanent Contract, Youth Service - Migrant Assistance

At Hospice général, we work towards better living together in Geneva

Founded in 1535 in Geneva, our institution supports people who, at some point in their lives, need assistance for the necessary time to (re)gain sustainable autonomy. We promote the social and professional reintegration of people receiving social assistance, we welcome and accommodate asylum seekers whom we support in their integration process. Finally, we participate in the fight against the isolation of seniors.

We are more than 1,500 employees spread over 60 sites throughout the canton. We support more than 35,000 people.

By joining our institution, you will contribute to the fulfilment of our social mission, rooted in our values of collaboration, respect, commitment and kindness.

In a context where our teams operate in demanding and constantly changing fields, we are committed to offering them stimulating working conditions: we aim for diversity and inclusion, we value collective intelligence, encourage exchanges and innovation, and promote initiative-taking and experimentation.

Your mission

The young adults unit provides individual support to migrants aged 18 to 25 with a view to their social and professional integration within the Geneva community in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

In your role as manager, you inspire, unite, lead and engage teams around a shared vision and objectives aligned with the institutional strategy.

You support employees by valuing their autonomy and initiatives, thus ensuring conditions conducive to achieving the unit’s mission and decision-making at the appropriate level of expertise.

To manage a complex environment, you anticipate and support change by designing and co-constructing an agile, effective and innovative organisation that adapts to the needs of the context and beneficiaries.

Your main activities

As a manager, you ensure that your unit:

• Develops individual support for young adults leading to autonomy by defining a life project that enables professional integration;
• Co-defines with the professional integration service (SIP) the monitoring of training and integration pathways for young adults and ensures good collaboration between different professions;
• Collaborates with the Department of Public Instruction (DIP - notably with Access, OFPC) on training issues for young adults;
• Coordinates with the service units responsible for educational supervision in living spaces as well as with the reception and living together service to ensure close follow-up;
• Ensures collaboration with the inter-institutional collaboration unit (CII) in connection with specific social integration;
• Ensures that all collaborations and individual support projects fall within the framework of the cantonal integration concept and the Swiss Integration Agenda (AIS).

As unit manager, you:

• Participate in coordination meetings, platforms and other network meetings related to the specificity of this population;
• Are responsible for the proper coordination of social and educational actions initiated by your team with internal social and educational partners;
• Ensure, in partnership with the Young Adults Unit 1, coherence in the care and individual support offered to young people;
• Contribute to the development of the youth policy of Migrant Assistance, then its implementation, in collaboration with the Youth Point unit of social action (ASOC);
• Develop partnerships with municipalities and other actors that enable the integration of young adults, together with the service units responsible for educational supervision in living spaces and the reception and living together service;
• Promote, support and supervise the professional posture development of employees that will enable the implementation of the AIS and the social and professional integration of young people;
• Promote, support and supervise the mobility of employees to ensure close support adapted to migratory flows.

Your profile

• Dynamic and flexible personality, ease in human contact, open, good analytical skills, interest in social work in a complex environment, ability to adopt a broad vision, diplomacy and good capacity for innovation;
• Minimum 3 years’ experience within Hospice général;
• University degree (minimum Bachelor) or HES title or recognised equivalent qualification;
• Minimum 3 years’ team management experience within a team of more than ten people and recognised leadership;
• Very good knowledge of legal frameworks;
• Administrative rigour and regular use of common IT tools;
• Project management methodology, an asset;
• Knowledge of the migration field and the Geneva associative network, an asset.

We offer you

• An open and respectful corporate culture;
• Continuous skills development through an attractive training policy;
• Career advancement and internal mobility opportunities;
• Real solutions to promote work-life balance;
• Numerous cultural and sporting activities to enjoy collectively within the institution.

Activity rate: 80-100%

Contract type: Permanent

Job grade: 19

Start date: 01.11.2026

Application deadline: 27.08.2026

Our recruitment process

It takes place in several stages depending on the type of position, where each step conditions the next: application analysis, telephone interview and, if applicable, job test and/or evaluation. The latter is organised on-site over half a day with institution managers and in the presence of a human resources representative. Candidates undergo both individual and group exercises.

Interested in this position?

The recruitment service of Hospice général looks forward to receiving your complete application (cover letter, CV, highest diploma obtained, work certificates). For optimisation of application tracking, we invite you to apply only online, in response to a specific job offer.