Site Manager for Day Care Heimat-Buchwald 80-90%

About the job

The Day Care Heimat-Buchwald

The School and Music Department of the City of St.Gallen, Day Care Division, is seeking a new site manager for the day care due to retirement.

Currently, over 140 children from the Heimat and Buchwald schools are cared for at the Heimat-Buchwald day care. The care is integrated into the Buchwald school building. The day care has its own rooms and a spacious outdoor area. Meals are prepared by a cook in the site’s own kitchen.

Your new role as site manager

For this demanding role, we are looking for you as an experienced leader. You bring expertise, have a flair for organisational matters, and enthusiasm for working with children and staff. You are responsible for the further development and operational management of the day care on a personnel, pedagogical, administrative, and organisational level. Together with the team and based on our framework concept and quality guidelines, you shape the care, conceptual, and administrative-organisational processes. You support the staff in their work with the children and occasionally participate in the daily care routine. In addition, you are responsible for the assigned budget and maintain active professional exchange with the division managers and site managers of other care locations. Constructive collaboration with the school and school management is also expected.

Good reasons to work for the City of St.Gallen:

This position is suitable for you if you

• have a tertiary degree in social work or childhood education.
• ideally have several years of leadership experience and leadership training.
• have already gained experience in managing childcare facilities.
• possess organisational and administrative know-how and consider reflective and conceptual teamwork among your skills.
• are characterised by a benevolent and solution-oriented attitude.
• enjoy and are enthusiastic about working with staff, children, and their families in a dynamic environment.
• like to take responsibility, act independently and reflectively, and are resilient.

Our operation

At 15 locations, we care for over 2400 school children from the city’s primary schools and kindergartens in various districts. We also run lunch tables for teenagers from the city’s secondary schools. You can expect a varied working environment with a high degree of personal responsibility and opportunities for co-creation. You benefit from generous holiday arrangements, families from a municipal family allowance, and fathers from a 20-day paternity leave. Thanks to a diverse training programme, you can develop personally and professionally.

Our corporate culture

We value good collaboration, clear communication, and treat each other with respect. We live equal opportunities and support the compatibility of work and private life.

Our selection process

Your questions about the position and the selection process will be gladly answered by Clemens Allenspach, Head of Day Care East, telephone 071 224 56 57. Have we piqued your interest? Then please submit your complete application exclusively online. Further information about the City of St.Gallen’s day care can be found at www.betreuung.stadt.sg.ch.

We appreciate diversity in all its forms and look forward to your perspective.