Specialist for the Management of Application Courses, 60%, Thun and Burgdorf
Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Thun
Key information
- Publication date:20 October 2025
- Workload:60%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Thun
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1500 staff in Switzerland and worldwide. Join a diverse team committed to social justice!
Tasks
- Lead small course groups and support applicants in job searches.
- Help participants create effective resumes and applications.
- Facilitate personalized strategies for job market success.
Skills
- Experience in adult education and professional integration preferred.
- Strong interpersonal skills and empathy for diverse participants.
- Ability to adapt to new teaching methods and digital tools.
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HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff members. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS is active with 290 programs and projects amounting to around 144 million Swiss francs. In 2024, HEKS reached around 16 million people with its work.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
HEKS pursues the vision of a just world in which the dignity of all people is respected, peace prevails, and natural living conditions are preserved. The goal is a transformation on social, economic, and political levels. HEKS contributes to improving the living conditions of people in Switzerland and worldwide, asserts their rights, and raises awareness and mobilizes for this purpose.
Lived diversity - Inclusion is important to us:
We welcome applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, or sexual orientation.
Specialist for the Management of Application Courses, 60%, Thun and Burgdorf
On behalf of the Canton of Bern, HEKS Stellennetz supports RAV clients in integrating into the labor market. The program provides participants with suitable employment opportunities in the primary labor market and accompanies them through the application process with an educational offer. The primary goal is to strengthen the application skills and thus the employability of the participants.
To strengthen our course management team, we are looking for a
These are your main tasks:
Course days take place on Thursdays and Fridays in Thun. Substitutions are desired on other days in Burgdorf and Thun, especially and mainly during school holidays.
- You independently lead smaller course groups or teach in team teaching groups of up to 14 participants
- You support participants in creating contemporary and meaningful application documents
- You are skilled in handling complex group dynamics
- With great empathy, you develop individual and appropriate application strategies with participants in one-on-one conversations
- You design learning processes that promote the strengths of the participants and increase their labor market attractiveness
- You conduct individual discussions with participants and advise them on special concerns
- You communicate transparently and proactively engage in relieving the team and the organization
Ideally, you bring the following:
- Ideally, you have practical experience in professional integration
- You have completed vocational training or studies as well as comprehensive further education in adult education (SVEB 1 certificate or federal specialist certificate trainer)
- Your personal and professional development is important to you
- You show high motivation for working with participants based on adult education principles such as self-determination and personal responsibility
- You work very independently, conscientiously, and reliably
- You are motivated and open to applying new methods, tools, approaches, and digital technologies
- Ideally, you are familiar with the principles of role-based collaboration
- You are flexible in terms of time and location
You can expect from us:
- A versatile and challenging role in a successful labor market measure, supported by a renowned NGO
- High personal responsibility and opportunities for co-design
- Multidisciplinary, committed, and competent staff
- Contemporary employment conditions
Would you like to join the HEKS team? Then we look forward to receiving your application by 17.11.2025 via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
If you have questions about the position and the application process, please feel free to contact us, stellennetz@heks.ch , 034 420 50 50.The job posting runs until November 17, 2025, and interviews will take place from November 24, 2025.
