Project Employee Federal Youth Session (50%)
Cevi Schweiz Häuser GmbH
Schwyz
Key information
- Publication date:04 September 2025
- Workload:50%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Schwyz
Job summary
Join the Swiss Youth Organizations as a Project Assistant! Be part of a dynamic team fostering youth participation.
Tasks
- Support project management for the Federal Youth Session.
- Coordinate registration and participant communication effectively.
- Collaborate with partners in politics, administration, and fundraising.
Skills
- Experience in administration and project work is essential.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills required.
- Fluency in French or German; Italian is a plus.
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Swiss Council of Youth Activities Swiss Federation of Youth Associations The Swiss Working Group of Youth Associations SAJV is the umbrella organization of around 58 youth organizations in Switzerland. It advocates for the interests of youth associations and the young generation towards authorities, political bodies, and the public. The SAJV is looking for a project employee for the Federal Youth Session (50%) starting January 1, 2026, or by agreement. Your tasks
You support the project management in planning and implementing the Federal Youth Session. The Youth Session is one of the largest platforms for political participation of young people in Switzerland and annually enables 200 young people to express their opinions on important political topics and deepen their knowledge in political education [www.jugendsession.ch]. You support the project management administratively and organizationally. You are responsible for the registration process as well as the contact with the participants of the Youth Session. Together with the project management, you organize various smaller events and preparatory meetings throughout the year. You also work closely with the partners of the Youth Session from politics, administration, and private sector and take on various tasks in communication and fundraising. In doing so, you also work with the organizing committee and the Youth Session Forum, the voluntary bodies of the Youth Session, in which around 30 young people are engaged throughout the year. Your profile
- Excellent organizational skills
- Experience in administrative work
- Precise and conscientious work
- Experience in project work and event organization in a professional or voluntary context
- Independent working style
- Enjoy working in a team and with volunteers
- Good knowledge of French with German as working language or vice versa, Italian is an advantage
- Interest in extracurricular youth work and youth participation
- Young personality
- Very good editorial skills
- Flexibility and resilience; willingness to occasionally work evenings or weekends, as well as willingness for annual working hours, i.e., more work during the Youth Session period (November).
The SAJV offers you flexible working hours, good social benefits, participation and training opportunities, as well as a very versatile and interesting job in an exciting environment and a young team. You have the opportunity to bring your own ideas into your work and implement them. The workplace is Liebefeld (Bern). We look forward to receiving your application with the usual documents and without a photo by September 22, 2025, to SAJV, Mohammed Essa, Hohle Gasse 4, 3097 Liebefeld or by email to info@sajv.ch. The interviews will take place on Monday or Tuesday, September 29 or 30, 2025. For further information, please contact Pascal Trösch, project manager of the Youth Session, by email (pascal.troesch@sajv.ch) or by phone at 031 326 29 26.
