Legal Intern, 80% (fixed-term employment for 6 months)
Stiftung Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS)
Solothurn
Key information
- Publication date:22 October 2025
- Workload:80%
- Contract type:Internship
- Place of work:Solothurn
Job summary
HEKS employs over 1500 staff across 35 countries. Join us to make a difference!
Tasks
- Support legal submissions to authorities and courts.
- Conduct legal inquiries and case assessments independently.
- Provide legal advice and assist in workshops and events.
Skills
- Studying law (BLaw or MLaw) with a focus on asylum issues.
- Excellent communication and writing skills essential.
- Fluency in English and French or Italian preferred.
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HEKS employs over 1500 permanent staff members. At 24 locations in Switzerland and worldwide in 35 countries, HEKS operates 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.
Legal Intern, 80% (fixed-term employment for 6 months)
The HEKS Legal Advice Center for Asylum Seekers Aargau offers legal advice and representation to asylum seekers, refugees, and provisionally admitted persons.
To support our team in Solothurn, we are looking for a motivated individual as of January 1, 2026 or by arrangement
These are your main tasks:
- Supporting lawyers with legal submissions to the Federal Administrative Court, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), and cantonal authorities
- Legal clarifications and individual case assessments
- Independent drafting of legal correspondence
- Telephone and personal legal advice
- Participation in hearings
- Assistance in organizing workshops and events
Ideally, you bring the following:
- Law studies (BLaw or MLaw)
- Interest in asylum and immigration law issues
- Very good written expression
- High communication skills and sensitivity in dealing with people from different cultures
- Good foreign language skills, especially English and French or Italian, additional languages are an advantage
- Flexibility, independence, and high resilience
You can expect from us:
- Versatile, challenging, and meaningful work at the interface of law and social issues
- Committed and competent colleagues
- Central workplace location in Solothurn
Would you like to join the HEKS team?
We look forward to receiving your application via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
For further information, El Uali Said, Head of Legal Advice Centers Aargau/Solothurn, is available by phone at +41 62 836 30 20.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
We look forward to receiving your application via our application tool. Please understand that email or postal applications cannot be processed.
For further information, El Uali Said, Head of Legal Advice Centers Aargau/Solothurn, is available by phone at +41 62 836 30 20.
More information about HEKS can be found at www.heks.ch.
