Group Leader / Daycare 60-70%

Your new role

You take primary responsibility for a lively group of children aged between 4 and 13 years and accompany them in everyday and leisure activities. Together with a dedicated team, you ensure, also in cooperation with parents or guardians, the best possible support, care, and guidance for the children. The socio-pedagogical work is based on our framework concept and quality guidelines.

This position is for you if you

• have a tertiary degree in social work or childhood pedagogy.
• have experience and enjoy dynamic and lively work with children and their living environments and surroundings.
• like to work developmentally oriented and are characterized by a benevolent and solution-oriented attitude.
• value TEAMWORK highly and consider reflective and conceptual work in a team among your skills.
• would like to accompany young people in their training and bring corresponding experience.
• welcome regular weekly working hours with your training in social or childhood pedagogy.
• are motivated by challenges and like to take responsibility.

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

Our operation

At 15 locations, we care for around 2200 school children from the city’s primary schools and kindergartens in the respective neighborhoods. At five additional locations, we run lunch tables for teenagers from the city’s secondary schools.

Our corporate culture

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

What we offer

With us, you can expect a varied working environment with a high degree of personal responsibility and the opportunity to help shape it. You benefit from generous vacation regulations, families from a city family allowance, and fathers from a 20-day paternity leave. Thanks to a versatile training program, you can develop personally and professionally.

Our selection process

Your questions about the position and the selection process will be gladly answered until September 26, 2025, by Jasmin Adams, Deputy Site Manager, phone 071 499 22 02, or from September 29, 2025, by Virginia Bieri, Site Manager Daycare Rotmonten, phone 071 499 22 02. Have we sparked your interest? Then please submit your complete application exclusively online. Further information about the City of St.Gallen daycare can be found at www.betreuung.stadt.sg.ch.

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