Pastoral Area Leader (80 - 100% workload)

Key information

  • Publication date:19 December 2025
  • Workload:80 – 100%
  • Contract type:Permanent position
  • Place of work:Luzern

Job summary

Join the Pastoralraum Stadt Luzern, a vibrant Catholic community. This role offers a collaborative and meaningful work atmosphere.

Tasks

  • Lead the development of the Pastoralraum with innovative projects.
  • Support and guide local leaders and teams in their missions.
  • Enhance ecumenical and interreligious cooperation actively.

Skills

  • Theology degree with pastoral training from Basel diocese or equivalent.
  • Leadership experience in management and change processes.
  • Analytical thinking and effective teamwork skills.

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The Pastoral Area City of Lucerne includes the Catholic parishes of Lucerne, Littau, and Reussbühl with nine parishes, the Jesuit Church and the Peters Chapel, as well as 13 city-wide specialist departments. In total, around 300 employees and over 1,500 volunteers are committed to a future-oriented, people-centered church. The pastoral area is supported by the office, which provides central services (finance, construction, personnel, communication). We are looking for a Pastoral Area Leader (80 - 100% workload) starting 1.5.2026 or by agreement. With your appreciative, spiritual, integrative, socially and culturally engaged personality, you shape the pastoral area and lead it cooperatively, participatively, and dialogically. At the same time, you maintain ecumenical and interreligious cooperation. You will be supported by leaders in the pastoral area team and the extended pastoral area team, the holder of the concept and coordination position, and an executive assistant. A consensual and partnership-based collaboration within the church's dual structure and with the office is a matter of course for you. You take on a leadership role in a parish or in specialized pastoral care. If elected by the community leaders and pastors in the pastoral area, you will also sit on the Lucerne Church Council. What are your tasks? • You lead – accompanied by an external agency – the change project "Further Development of the Pastoral Area," which addresses the content-pastoral, spatial-infrastructural, organizational, and cultural challenges and further develops the Pastoral Area City of Lucerne. • You lead and advise the site managers, the holder of the concept and coordination position, and, in consultation with and delegation to leaders in the pastoral area team, the heads of specialist departments. What do you need to be successful? • A completed theology degree with professional introduction from the Diocese of Basel (or equivalent training) • Explicit desire to live a shared leadership model and transform the organization • Training and experience in leadership, management and leadership, project and change management • Joy in shaping, enthusiasm, and persuasiveness • Analytical thinking, teamwork skills, as well as networked and out-of-the-box thinking What can you look forward to? • An exciting, meaningful job with plenty of creative freedom • A responsible, lively, and people-oriented role • Attractive employment conditions and training opportunities, very good social benefits Information about the Pastoral Area of the Catholic Church City of Lucerne: https://www.kathluzern.ch. For questions, the Lead Priest Rafal Lupa (Tel. 041 229 98 10, rafal.lupa@kathluzern.ch) and the previous Pastoral Area Leader Thomas Lang (Tel. 041 229 91 10, thomas.lang@kathluzern.ch) will be happy to provide information. Take the next step! We look forward to your application. Please send your dossier by 5.2.2026 to the Personnel Department of the Diocese of Basel, personalamt@bistum-basel.ch with a copy to the Personnel Department of the Catholic Parish of Lucerne, bewerbung@kathluzern.ch.

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