Continuing Education Coordinator (80%)
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Olten
Key information
- Publication date:21 January 2026
- Workload:80%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Olten
Job summary
Join Hochschule für Wirtschaft FHNW as a Weiterbildungskoordinator*in! Enjoy a dynamic work environment and innovative opportunities.
Tasks
- Ensure smooth daily operations for assigned training programs.
- Manage participant data in the database efficiently.
- Support program leaders with administrative tasks and participant inquiries.
Skills
- You have a commercial degree and relevant work experience.
- Strong IT affinity and interest in digitalization.
- Excellent communication skills in German, both spoken and written.
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Continuing Education Coordinator (80%)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Continuing Education
Your tasks:
As an administrative employee, you are responsible in our back office for the smooth daily operation of the classes as well as various background tasks. Your workday includes varied tasks as well as close collaboration with our continuing education coordinators, program and module leaders, lecturers, and participants. Furthermore, this includes the following activities:
- ensuring the smooth process regarding preparation, implementation, and follow-up of the assigned continuing education programs
- managing participant data in the database
- correctly handling the fee and invoicing system
- advising participants and supporting the program management in organizational and administrative matters
Your profile:
You are a proactive and service-oriented personality with a commercial or equivalent degree and corresponding professional experience. Strong teamwork skills, enjoyment in contact with diverse stakeholders, as well as a healthy assertiveness characterize you. The following complete your profile:
- IT affinity and interest in digitalization, EVENTO knowledge is an advantage
- communication skills as well as confident German in spoken and written form
- good organizational and coordination skills as well as flexibility
- independent, solution-oriented working style
- quick comprehension combined with networked thinking
- willingness to be mobile between the locations Basel, Brugg-Windisch, and Olten
The combination of teaching, research, and practice is our passion. Our University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW fosters and utilizes the enriching diversity of its employees. It is our ambition to learn day by day in a connected and dynamic world in order to train innovative and responsible leaders of tomorrow. In doing so, we live a respectful, practice-oriented, and internationally influenced culture.
