Temporary Specialist Assistant for Allocation and Accommodation 80%
Kanton Zürich
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:19 December 2025
- Workload:80%
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Join the Kantonale Sozialamt as a Fachspezialist/in in Zurich! You'll enjoy a supportive work environment and valuable experience.
Tasks
- Manage refugee assignments from federal centers to local communities.
- Communicate effectively with various stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Process applications and provide guidance to asylum seekers at the counter.
Skills
- Completed commercial apprenticeship and relevant further training preferred.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills, adaptable to change.
- Excellent German and English communication; MS Office proficiency.
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The Cantonal Social Office with over 280 employees takes on diverse, controlling, and operational tasks primarily in social assistance, social insurance, social services, and the asylum sector at the interface between the federal government, other cantons, cities, municipalities, and various private organizations. It also operates its own facility, tilia, located in Rheinau.
For the Asylum Coordination Department, we are looking for a temporary specialist assistant for allocation and accommodation, 80%, starting immediately or by arrangement, limited to 6 months.
Your main tasks
- You are responsible for the comprehensive allocation of refugees from the federal asylum centers to the cantonal transit centers and from there to the municipalities.
- You communicate proficiently with internal and external stakeholders.
- You review and process support applications, change notifications, and other administrative reports.
- You independently answer complex questions from internal and external stakeholders and advise asylum seekers at the counter.
Your skills and talents
- You have completed a commercial apprenticeship and preferably further training in the specialist field (professional certificate) and have professional experience ideally in a similar role or in the asylum/migration sector.
- You are an administrative and organizational talent who quickly adapts to changing conditions and new areas of responsibility.
- You enjoy working independently and are interested in complex political issues.
- You have very good oral and written German skills (at least B2) and speak English. Knowledge of languages spoken by current refugee groups is an advantage.
- You communicate actively and enjoy direct exchange at the counter or by phone and have solid MS Office skills.
Our offer
If you see challenges as opportunities and diversity as enrichment, you will feel comfortable with us. You will be able to contribute and make an impact. The Canton of Zurich is a solid, fair, and reliable employer. Of course, we offer attractive employment conditions. But you don’t come to us for the benefits, but because you want to contribute to the bigger picture: for society.
Do you recognize yourself?
Then we look forward to your application. Please use the online tool so that we can process your documents. For further information, Valentin Bütler (team leader) is available from January at 043 259 57 89. The Social Office is closed from December 22, 2025, to January 4, 2026. Recruitment starts mid-January. We look forward to meeting you.
Maybe your new environment? www.zh.ch/sozialamt
