Group Leader / Daycare 80%

About the job

Your new role

You take on the main responsibility for a lively group of children aged 4 to 13 and accompany them in their daily lives as well as in leisure activities. In collaboration with a dedicated team and in close communication with parents or guardians, you ensure the best possible support, care, and guidance for the children. Your social pedagogical work is based on our framework concept as well as our quality mission statement.

We look forward to your application if you

• have a tertiary degree in social work or childhood education.
• have experience and enjoy dynamic and lively work with children and their living environments and surroundings.
• prefer 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 strengths.
• would like to accompany young people in their training and have corresponding experience.
• welcome regulated weekly working hours with your training in social or childhood education.
• like to take responsibility and work with commitment in a team.

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 by Janine Schäfer, Head of Daycare Halden, phone 071 499 21 45. Have we sparked your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application submitted electronically. 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.