Portfolio Manager for the Education Sector 80 - 100%
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:26 August 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Join the Kanton Zürich as a Portfolio Manager in Education! Help manage a large public real estate portfolio.
Tasks
- Oversee comprehensive planning to maintain property value throughout its lifecycle.
- Define strategies for existing educational buildings.
- Represent ownership in construction projects with the building office.
Skills
- Experience in real estate with a technical background is essential.
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills are required.
- Initiative and high communication skills are necessary.
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Portfolio Manager for the Education Sector 80 - 100%
The Canton of Zurich is growing. It holds one of the largest real estate portfolios of the public sector in Switzerland. The Real Estate Office manages this as the owner representative, ensures value preservation, unlocks development potentials, and creates long-term scope for action. For the educational buildings of secondary, vocational, and universities of applied sciences, we develop strategies and concepts for maintenance as well as for new buildings together with our partners. To complement our team, we are looking for you as a Portfolio Manager for the Education Sector.
Your main tasks:
- Design and support of overarching planning to ensure value preservation throughout the entire life cycle of the properties
- Definition of property strategies for existing properties
- Owner representation for construction projects in cooperation with the Building Department
- Coordination of rental projects with internal and external stakeholders
Your profile:
- You have several years of experience in the real estate sector as well as a construction-technical education and ideally further training in real estate economics
- You have strong conceptual as well as analytical-structuring skills
- Your interest lies in the diverse tasks at the interface of the real estate industry and politics
- You are proactive and have strong communication and teamwork skills
Would you like to contribute your broad knowledge and interest to a sustainably attractive Canton of Zurich? We like to work collegially, straightforwardly, and performance-oriented. And all this in the future in modern working environments, just a few minutes from the main train station.
The department head Alice Kamm, Tel. 043 259 34 12, and her deputy Andrijana Pantic, Tel. 043 259 31 71, in the Portfolio Management Department look forward to your online application and are available for specific questions. Your new environment: www.zh.ch/ima, more jobs: www.zh.ch/jobs.
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