Stiftung Pro Juventute
Zürich
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Senior Specialist Compliance and Risk Management 80%
- 01 May 2026
- 80%
- Zürich
Job summary
Join a vibrant team at Stiftung Pro Juventute, dedicated to empowering children and youth in Switzerland. Enjoy a collaborative and flexible work environment that values your input.
Tasks
- Act as a sparring partner for compliance and risk-related issues.
- Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory guidelines across the organization.
- Advise departments on compliance and legal matters effectively.
Skills
- Requires a commercial or legal education with compliance training; experience preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with integrity.
- Excellent communication skills to present complex topics clearly.
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About the job
"All children and young people grow up strengthened, confident and joyful - in a supportive environment and a society that enables participation."
This is our vision and currently around 200 employees and over 1000 volunteers throughout Switzerland are committed to it with great dedication and passion. With our services such as the emergency number 147, parent letters, application training, media usage workshops and many more, we support children and young people as well as their parents every day.
Are you not keen on hierarchy and long, central decision-making processes? Are you interested in collegial leadership and self-organisation or are you already familiar with it? Oh, now it’s getting exciting!
Would you like to actively contribute and make a positive impact for children and young people in Switzerland? Then become part of our team.
What are the tasks awaiting you?
- Partner in compliance, risk and legal matters as well as preparation of decision-making bases and ad-hoc reports
- Ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and internal requirements (including contract and foundation law as well as data protection law)
- Advising departments on compliance, risk and legal issues
- Responsibility for ensuring and coordinating data protection foundation-wide as well as contact person for internal and external concerns
- Further development of internal processes and monitoring of the internal control system (ICS) as well as risk management including assessment of controls and audits
- Coordination of audits and reporting as well as cooperation with external bodies (e.g. supervisory authorities, legal advisors, foundation supervision)
- Ensuring governance, data quality and central processes (e.g. contract management, master data, access rights)
What profile do you bring?
- Completed commercial or legal training, ideally with further education in compliance or (business) law as well as data protection
- Several years of professional experience in compliance, data protection, internal audit or a comparable function
- Sound knowledge of Swiss legislation as well as relevant regulatory requirements
- Structured, analytical and solution-oriented working style with high flexibility, integrity and discretion
- Strong communication skills and ability to prepare complex topics appropriately for the audience (executive management/foundation board)
- High personal responsibility, accuracy, independent working style, entrepreneurial thinking, hands-on mentality and ownership mentality
- Experience in the NPO environment is an advantage
What you can look forward to!
- Meaning in your daily work! Your work always has an impact, whether directly or indirectly, on the well-being of children and young people in Switzerland
- Highly motivated team that works together
- 40-hour working week with flexible working hours and a generous mobile office arrangement
- Time to recharge: 6 weeks of holiday per year
- 5 paid training days (equivalent to 40 hours regardless of workload), which can be used freely
- 6 weeks paternity leave / 20 weeks maternity leave (from 2nd year of service)
We look forward to receiving your complete application documents!
Contact
HR Specialist
Pro Juventute Foundation
Phone:+41 44 256 77 17